RETRO! What was your Rig 5 years ago?

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: 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.

lol!

 

[Kadarin]

I bought my first modern computer in 1998; prior to that, I did not know much about them. However, when I was a kid, we had an Apple 2+, and a Mac 128K. That "modern" PC was the following:

Asus P2B-F w/350Mhz PII
Matrox Millenium G200
Viewsonic G790 19" (still using this)
128MB PC100
8GB Maxtor HDD

I had this machine until recently.

 

[gentobu]

macintosh LCIII
25 Mhz
16 MB ram
~150 MB HDD
Floppy
SCSI Zip drive
14.4 Modem
13" CRT

 

[Imdmn04]

notice how everybody's pc from 5 years ago are brand names. I bet in another 10 years. brand name computers will have a very small market compared to self built ones. Espically with newer os, don't even have to install drivers, just plug the cards in and turn it on, everything is such a breeze now.

 

[UNCjigga]

Cyrix M? PR166
15" CTX SVGA
64MB RAM
ATI Mach64
Monster3D
SoundBlaster 32
9GB SCSI from my dad

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
notice how everybody's pc from 5 years ago are brand names. I bet in another 10 years. brand name computers will have a very small market compared to self built ones. Espically with newer os, don't even have to install drivers, just plug the cards in and turn it on, everything is such a breeze now.

Don't think so. In fact, I think the trend might be going in reverse. I know plenty of folks who used to only buy mom & pop barebones clones, and now they ONLY buy Dell, HP, etc. Enthusiasts will always build their own (I've been building my own since the early 90s) and case mods/colors added a new dimension to building your own, but the mainstream consumer likes getting a complete system for $699 from Dell.

 

[Supermercado]

I didn't have my own computer then, I don't think. If I did, it was my dad's old 166 MHz (I don't think it was a Pentium, might have been Cyrix). I think it had 64MB of memory (don't know what speed) and 1.6 GB hard drive. My dad's machine at the time was a 333 MHz (I think?) Cyrix with like 64 MB memory and about an 8 GB hard drive.

 

[Swanny]

I didn't have one

 

[tm37]

The first rig I got was about 4 and 1/2 years ago it was-

AMD 133
16 MB RAM
600 MB Samsung HD
8X CD ROM
2MB Trident video
Sound Blaster COMPATIBLE ISA Sound card.

NO MODEM:Q
NO Network:Q

Later I added a 56K FLEX modem @ $150
I also got a SB LIVE Value $99
and a Creative labs graphics XTREEM 4MB which died six months later and was replaced by the Stealth (?) 4 MB PCI Video. (rendition Chipset.) I also added a 2.5 GB Maxtor HDD to which I told my wife "I'll never fill this up"

I sold the Mother board CPU, 600 MB HDD and Memory and bought a Pentium 166MMX / MB combo and 32MB of EDO. Later upgraded that to 64MB. My sister is still using that rig.

166MMX
2.5 GB Maxtor drive
64 MB EDO Ram
16X CD (I kept my 8X)
SOme cheap sound card (I kept that)
Diamond stelth II (I think) 4MB Video.
CHEAPO 56K modem.
Linksys 10/100 Net card (she was on my network)
and a 14" monitor that my wifes work was going to toss.

My sister also has a packard bell 233 but that 166 is WAY faster

 

[Desslok]

Packard Bell 386/20 SX
8 Megs of RAM
120 Meg HD
added a
8 bit Sound Blaster
28.8 modem(That was a nightmare due to the proprietry nature of the PB) add to the insturction book for the modem had the DIP switch number incorrectly

Upgraded to a
AMD K5 100
128 Megs of EDO ram
1 gig Maxtor HD
16 bit SB
8x CD-rom
S3 virage with 16 megs of ram

 

[erub]

Dell Dimension (2100?):
Pentium 200 MMX
64 MB SDRAM (so much RAM, wow!)
4.3 Gigs (how could anybody fill that up?)
33.6K modem (blistering)
12X CDROM
17" monitor

$3300

 

[NokiaDude]

My dad still works with a Pentium 266 w/ Windows 98. His PS fan seized up so now whenever I touch the case it burns my hands!

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
notice how everybody's pc from 5 years ago are brand names. I bet in another 10 years. brand name computers will have a very small market compared to self built ones. Espically with newer os, don't even have to install drivers, just plug the cards in and turn it on, everything is such a breeze now.

Thats only cause my parents wouldn't let me built my own. About a year later I built my own:
550E@733
upgraded to:
700E@933

THen I got a new system:
AMD TBird 1.2 @ 1.4 (i used this last year at school, but now I only bring my laptop: IBM T20 700E)

 

[sharkeeper]

Tyan S1668D Dual Socket 8
(2) Pentium Pro 200 w/ 512KB Cache
Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller
2 IBM 4.5GB Ultrastar SCSI drives (they were $800 EACH then!)
512MB ECC EDO RAM (don't even ask what that cost!)
8 MB Matrox Millennium II PCI
Plextor Ultra Plex (32x)
Plextor 4 Plex caddy external (that's a READER not a writer!)
(2) Syquest Syjet 1.5GB removable cart HDD
HP TR4 4/8GB Travan tape drive
AVM Apex ISA Sound Card (Kurweil Synth)
Hitachi SuperScan 803 21" CRT
Windows NT 4.0 Worksatan, Windows 95 dual boot.
Calcomp 12x18 digitizer with 8 button puck.
Logitech Three button mouse.
Altra Felix digitizer.
3COM 3C905TX 10/100 NIC

That was a pretty good system in its day. Both Syquest drives died a long time ago. (1999) I still have the box but with Windows 2000 Server installed. It's a backup RADIUS server.

Cheers!

 

[Pacfanweb]

P233mmx
64megs edo
sb awe 64
s3virge
56k
4.3 gig Fujitsu
3.5 floppy
20x cdrom
17"proton monitor

 

[Jugernot]

Hmmm, if I remember correctly I was running:

Nov. 97
-----------------
K6 200
ECS mobo (SIS 5591)
Jaton Trident Image 975 (non existance 3d performance)
128megs of EDO SIMMs
6 gigs of HD (2gig NEC and 4 gig WD)
Enlight AT mid tower
8x Panasonic CDROM

Nov. 98
----------------------------------
Celeron 300a @ 463MHz
384MHz of PC100
Asus P2B i440 BX
6 gig of hard drive space (2gig NEC and 4gig Western Digital Caviar)
S3 Stealth 3D (Verite 2100 chipset)
(2) Diamond Monster II 3d 8meg Voodoo2 SLI Configuration
8x CDROM Panasonic

 

[hollowman]

What was your Rig 5 years ago?

Better yet, what did you guys do with the Rig?

 

[Pacfanweb]

My wife is still using the old awe 64. I'm still using the floppy. I still have the monitor as a spare. The HDD died. The cdrom is still working. I still have the mobo, video card, and cpu, but am not currently using them.

 

[Vic]

In late 97?
P200MMX
Asus 430VX mobo
96MB EDO
4GB WD
Diamond Monster Voodoo2 12MB (may have gotten this in early 98, whenever they first came out, it wasn't part if the original build)
SB Awe32
USR 56k
Toshiba 24x
17" Viewsonic
Win95B

Very fast rig at the time. I built it myself and had about $3k invested.
edit: played a lot of Diablo, Carmageddon (ah the memories), and Q2 on this rig.

BTW, to those saying they had P2-400's or Win98SE in 1997, kindly STFU.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: 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.

3000?? 4 years ago, I got a 17" for like $300. The year before that, I had a P100 Acer with a 14".

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer

Originally posted by: 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.

3000?? 4 years ago, I got a 17" for like $300. The year before that, I had a P100 Acer with a 14".

I HOPE is is saying the whole system cost 3k's

 

[Dragnov]

A Packard Bell. >.<

 

[ROTC1983]

Some POS E-Machine.

 

[deerslayer]

Didn't have my own, parents had (to the best of my recollection):

AMD 66mhz
8mb of ram
500mb Conner hard drive
4x cdrom
Sound Blaster 16 sound card that never worked
no internet at all

 

[d33pt]

i've probably had 15 different computers in the last 5 years... i can hardly remember what i had 6 months ago