RETRO! What was your Rig 5 years ago?

[RIGorous1]

Mine was:

17" CRT
Cyrix M-II 300
32mb of SIMM RAM
Floppy 3 1/2"
Floppy 5 1/4"
24x Max cdrom
6.4gb 5400rpm Maxtor hd
onboard video (shared)
onboard sound
AT form factor case
absolutely no usb

 

[Legendary]

300 mhz Cyrix running at 225 mhz
64 MB RAM (I think)
SiS onboard everything.
Made by - Packard Bell.

 

[Nohr]

Five years ago I was living with my parents and only had an IBM PS/1 286 that they had bought in the late '80s. They just wouldn't pay for a new one!

286, don't know what MHz
1MB RAM
30MB HD
640x480 monitor
256 color VGA graphics (256KB vid)
2400bps modem
1.44MB floppy drive that had broke years ago
PC Speaker sound

Edit: added specs

 

[fatbaby]

486 dx2 66 mhz
600 mb hd
16 mb ram
no video
soundblaster pro
15" crt

 

[Rent]

IBM crAptiva
P2 300
64MB PC100 ram
ATi Rage OnBoard Graphics
Crystal Fusion OnBoard Sound
3d Labs Voodoo 2 12mb

Ahh the memories

 

[RIGorous1]

Originally posted by: Radeon
IBM crAptiva
P2 300
64MB PC100 ram
ATi Rage OnBoard Graphics
Crystal Fusion OnBoard Sound
3d Labs Voodoo 2 12mb

Ahh the memories

damn you had a voodoo! Thats a nice rig ... how much did you pay then?

 

[Frosty3799]

ummm non-existent

 

[Chaotic42]

14" Monitor
K6-200
32MB Ram
3.1GB Hard Drive
Diamond Viper V330
4X CD Rom
Sound Blaster 16

 

[FoBoT]

mmm, i think a pentium 133, or maybe a pentium 150
i can't remember that long ago

 

[Stallion]

5 years ago... We had a P100 gateway. 16mg ram, 1G HD and 8X CD. Don't remember video or sound though. We did get a 17 inch monitor though. I do rememberthat it cost $3,050! When we upgraded, from gateway of course, we bought 16mg more ram and it was close to $150.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I didn't have one until 2 years ago.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Compaq 8702
P166/24/2.5/8x/3.5/15"

 

[RichieZ]

IBM Craptiva
PII 266
64MB PC66
6GB Bigfoot (horrible 5 1/4" HD, i think it was like 4200RPM)
ATI Rage Pro 4MB built in (no AGP slot, later put in a V3 2000PCI)
24X Matshita CDROM
56K 3Com Sportster External
17" CRT

 

[Squisher]

I believe it was a:

300Mhz AMD K6-2
Stb Nitro 4 Mb
12Mb Voodoo2
4X Mitsumi CDROM
17" Viewsonic
4.3 Gb Maxtor
Ram? It was PC100, can't remember how much.


Most of this stuff is still in use somewhere in this house.

 

[wfbberzerker]

compaq 486 (66mhz)
integrated sound/video
16mb ram
windows 3.1
2x cd-rom
15" monitor
.5gb hard drive

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: RIGorous1

Originally posted by: Radeon
IBM crAptiva
P2 300
64MB PC100 ram
ATi Rage OnBoard Graphics
Crystal Fusion OnBoard Sound
3d Labs Voodoo 2 12mb

Ahh the memories

damn you had a voodoo! Thats a nice rig ... how much did you pay then?

Was the 'rents machine, I merely added the Voodoo. They paid something rediculous like $2500+...

 

[jemcam]

Toshiba 166 mhz w/mmx
onboard sound & video (later added some weird add on video card that biggy packed onto the internal video, cost like $200)
15" monitor
AOL dialup @ 28.8 when AOL was on floppies
16x cd
32mb ram


sad part is, I paid almost $2500 for that system!

 

[NokiaDude]

A Pentium 166 MMX with 32mb of pc100 RAM. Windows 98SE. Amazing what adding 256mb of RAM to that computer did.

 

[brtspears2]

Hmm... 1997, Cant remember.

I think it was an Apple LCIII with that killer 160mb HD and 8mb of ram.

 

[crab]

AMD AM386DX33
4mb
200mb HDD
14.4 modem
Cirrus Logic video

 

[woodie1]

No desktop pc 5 years ago.

 

[Bushwicktrini]

PII-300
32mb Ram
Onboard sound
Onboard video 4mb(shared)
2.5 Gb Hdd
24x cd rom
15" monitor
AKA Gateway GS-300

 

[RossMAN]

5 years ago, this is painful:

Mac Performa 630CD (equivelant to a 486 DX @ 25 MHz)
20MB RAM
250MB Hard Drive
2x CD-ROM
14" monitor

Then I built an AMD Athlon 650 which I later sold.

Then I bought a Dell Dimension 4100 P3/866 which I later sold.

Then I bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop which I sold after I realized I'd never use it.

Then I bought a Dell Dimension 4400/1.6 which I later sold.

Then I bought a vpr Matrix P4/1.6 from BB which I returned to BB.

Bought my wife a Dell Dimension 4300/1.4 which we recently sold.

Then I bought a Dell Dimension 4500/2.0 which I intended to be my main rig for at least 6 months BUT ended up giving it to the wife.

Then I bought a Dell Dimension 4550/2.4 with the FREE 15" LCD (which I sold) and this is currently my main rig for hopefully at least 1 year.

Last but not least I bought a Compaq Presario 1500T laptop loaded for $837 which I am using right now.

Damn.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

i dont remember
something rather crappy...like a Pentium 75 or soemthing...maybe 100 or 133, geze i dunno.

 

[CraigRT]

didn't care about PC's back then

P200MMX
64MB EDO
1.6GB hard drive
8X CD-ROM
ATI 4MB 3D RAGE II
Sportster 33.6 modem
Intel mobo