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Lets see....
80286
Intel DX2-50
Cyrix PR-166
AMD K6-2 300Mhz
AMD K6-3 450Mhz
AMD Athlon 700Mhz (892 Oc'ed)
AMD Athlon TB 750Mhz (950 oc'ed)
AMD Athlon TB 1.1Ghz (1350 oc'ed)
 
Atari 400 waaaayyyy back in '82 (had this game called Star Raiders absolutely loved it)
Commodore 128 (with a double sided floppy drive, I had to flip the discs over when in 64 mode)
286-12 (cost me $1500 sold it a year later for $1100)
386sx-20 (cost me $1400 fried motherboard)
amd 386-40 (cost me $1800 sold it later with added stuff (soundblaster original) for $2000)
486dx-33 (paid $2000 sold it for $1000 two years later)
486dx2-66 (paid $2200 gave it to my daughter)
Pentium 166 (last system bought from a retailer, paid $3000 sold 3 years later for $700)
Celeron 266 overclocked to 448
celeron 300a at 450
P3-450 at 558
P3-700 at 933

what a bunch of money wasted...What fond memories...

 
1. Commodore 64
1a. Atari - can't remember model
2. Commodore Amiga A500
3. 286/16
4. 486/dx100
4. P150
5. P200
6. P3-450
7. P3-650

Now you know how old I am !
 
A brief history:
1. i386 sx20
2. i486 dx2 66
3. iPII 350
4. I Celeron II 600 @ 900

#4 is thanks to all you overclockers out there! 😉
 
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
Apple IIGS
i386/33
i486/66
i486/100
Pentium 75
Pentium 133
Pentium 200MMX
Pentium II 450
Athlon 1.2GHz
 
1)Pentium 60 Mhz (1994)
2)Pentium II 300 Mhz (1998)
3)AMD Thunderbird 900 Mhz (2000)

Wow... so few and far between. I'm embarrassing myself.😱
 

Z80B
68000 (QL version)
68000 @ 7.13 Mhz
286 @ 12 Mhz
386sx @ 20 Mhz
486dx @ 33 Mhz
486dx2 @ 66Mhz
P90
68020 @ 20 Mhz
68030 @ 50 Mhz
68040 @ 25 Mhz
PPC 160 Mhz
K6-3 450 @ 512 Mhz
Duron 700 @ 880 Mhz

 
i486 DX2-50 1994 This b|tch cost me too much money!
AMD 5x86/133@150 1996
AMD K6-2/333 1997
iP2-333@400 1999
(2) C300a's @ 464 1999
C533a @ 800 2000
C600a @ 840 2000
Duron 650@933 2001
Duron 700@1050 2001


 
IBM XT 8088
IBM AT 286 ( <-had about 5 of these, now I'm down to 1 working one )
DTK 286 12Mhz
Acer 286 12Mhz
HP 6350 AMD 333Mhz ( <-big jump in speed )
486 DX Cyrix 66Mhz ( <-step down 😛 just listing the order here )
800Mhz T-bird @ 1000Mhz
 
OK, here goes:

IBM PC 8088 @ 4.77 MHz (16KB memory, later upgraded to **64KB, had two 160KB Floppys)
IBM XT 8088 @ 4.77 MHz (loved that 10MB hard drive, also had a 360KB floppy!)
*IBM AT 80286 @ 8 MHz (loaded w/ EGA card, 1.2 floppy, 30MB HD, 512KB memory)
*IBM PS/2 Mod55 386SX 16MHz (hated the fake 32bit SX, but loved the VGA)
*386 33MHz (ahhh, true 32bit, super VGA, soundblaster, nice gaming machine)
*486 DX2 66MHz
Pentium 133MHz
+Pentium 166MHz (laptop)
+Pentium 233MHz (now a dual 233)
+Pentium 2 266MHz
+Pentium 3 600e
+Athlon 1.2GHz (overclocked @1370)

*still have today, +still run today
**hey, Bill said I'd never need any more😉
 
1.) Intel 386DX-25
2.) Intel 486DX2-66
3.) Intel Pentium 133
4.) Intel Pentium 150
5.) AMD K6-233
6.) Intel Pentium II 266 -> 300MHz
7.) Intel Celeron 300A -> 464MHz
8.) Intel Celeron II 566 -> 952MHz
 
1) Cyrix 486DX2 66mhz (this thing rocks in 95!!!)
2) AMD 586DX4 133mhz (upgrade for my 486DX2 66mhz)
3) WinChip 200mhz w/ MMX (remember those)
4) Pentium II 400Mhz (was top-of-the-line)
5) AMD Duron 700Mhz (cracked the core on the 1st day)
6) AMD Duron 600@918Mhz (finally successful at OCing)
7) AMD Duron 800@1000Mhz (I knew it was a small jump, but I got it from a friend for only $50. Not bad for a 1Ghz chip 🙂)
 
don't know if anyone would read this but what the heck:

P100
Celeron 266
Celeron 300A @ 504 Mhz
Celeron 400 @ 450 Mhz
P3 550 @ 825 Mhz
P3 700 @ 1000 Mhz
Celeron 566 @ 850 Mhz
Duron 600 @ 1000 Mhz

eRr
 
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