P233 MMX
64 Mb memory
Riva TNT 16 Mb video card
3.2 Gb hard drive
onboard sound
56K modem
14" CRT
64 Mb memory
Riva TNT 16 Mb video card
3.2 Gb hard drive
onboard sound
56K modem
14" CRT
Hmm, details from that era are foggy at best. I don't know when I got my Voodoo2, or my ATI Rage something-or-other, but I will assume that only the modem was upgraded at the time:
CPU: Pentium MMX 120
RAM: 16 MB (dunno type, guessing EDO)
Mobo: Some ASUS Baby AT Socket7 board. I still have some docs for it somewhere
Video: Cirrus Logic PCI (wild guess: 2 MB)
Sound: ESS AudioDrive 1688 ISA (see my FS/FT thread
)
Modem: USR Sportster 56K ISA (Thankfully, not a winmodem)
Hard Drive: 1.2 GB IDEQ)
Optical Drive: 4x IDE CD-ROM (still have it, and it still works!)
Tape Drive: Colorado 1400 (The ~4 GB tapes it took seemed like an unfillable expanse at the time)
Case: Beige yet somewhat badass AT mid-tower
OS: Windows 95 (the fact that it was a year-old upgrade from an already year-old install of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups makes it seem all the more miraculous that it was as stable as it was)
CPU: Pentium MMX 120
RAM: 16 MB (dunno type, guessing EDO)
Mobo: Some ASUS Baby AT Socket7 board. I still have some docs for it somewhere
Video: Cirrus Logic PCI (wild guess: 2 MB)
Sound: ESS AudioDrive 1688 ISA (see my FS/FT thread
)Modem: USR Sportster 56K ISA (Thankfully, not a winmodem)
Hard Drive: 1.2 GB IDE
Q)Optical Drive: 4x IDE CD-ROM (still have it, and it still works!)
Tape Drive: Colorado 1400 (The ~4 GB tapes it took seemed like an unfillable expanse at the time)
Case: Beige yet somewhat badass AT mid-tower
OS: Windows 95 (the fact that it was a year-old upgrade from an already year-old install of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups makes it seem all the more miraculous that it was as stable as it was)
DanTMWTMP
Lifer
- Oct 7, 2001
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5 yrs ago? lolol hmm...
pentium 166 mghz
trident something video card...
96 megs of some old ram b4 sd ram ahaha forgot..sigh wat the...
15 inch dumb monitor
well, it did me a good service...scanned pictures...i did heavy multimedia multitasking..(well not to todays', but appropriate of its time...)
i was sad to trash the computer...it did me a great service..hehehehe...oh well, my rig below is what i have now...ahahahha =) =) =)
pentium 166 mghz
trident something video card...
96 megs of some old ram b4 sd ram ahaha forgot..sigh wat the...
15 inch dumb monitor
well, it did me a good service...scanned pictures...i did heavy multimedia multitasking..(well not to todays', but appropriate of its time...)
i was sad to trash the computer...it did me a great service..hehehehe...oh well, my rig below is what i have now...ahahahha =) =) =)
Freejack2
Diamond Member
- Dec 31, 2000
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Hmm, this should be interesting, I remember some stuff but not all.
P2-300 Pretty Sure
Asus motherboard, Not sure of the exact model, I think it was a 440lx chipset
Inwin Full Tower (Had this until I replaced it with a chieftec this summer)
64mb of ram?!? no clue
Voodoo Rush 3D/2D card.
Sound Blaster awe32 I think
no clue how much hdd space, was pretty decent though.
Nokia 447Xavc monitor, trinitron tube, this thing had a camera and speakers with a subwoofer built in. Sold it later for my 21" Iiyama.
P2-300 Pretty Sure
Asus motherboard, Not sure of the exact model, I think it was a 440lx chipset
Inwin Full Tower (Had this until I replaced it with a chieftec this summer)
64mb of ram?!? no clue
Voodoo Rush 3D/2D card.
Sound Blaster awe32 I think
no clue how much hdd space, was pretty decent though.
Nokia 447Xavc monitor, trinitron tube, this thing had a camera and speakers with a subwoofer built in. Sold it later for my 21" Iiyama.
Pentium 150 non-MMX
16MB RAM
1.6GB HD
1MB PCI VGA (S3 Trio)
ISA ESS soundcard
self assembled
15" Panasonic monitor
Strange, this was a programmable calculator compared to my present rig, that's how much slower it was.
Atari 1040 ST with 1 game, Silent service. Still have it and I use the PS cable for my current CPU.
FreAk
.FreAk
Compaq Presario
P100
8MB SIMM (Upgraded to 24MB)
14" Monitor
Win 95
1GB HDD
4x CD
s3 Trio 64V+ 1MB onboard gfx
SB PCI sound card
14.4 Modem (now Elsa Microlink 56k)
Still in use by my mum (mom) for net use/general office app work.
P100
8MB SIMM (Upgraded to 24MB)
14" Monitor
Win 95
1GB HDD
4x CD
s3 Trio 64V+ 1MB onboard gfx
SB PCI sound card
14.4 Modem (now Elsa Microlink 56k)
Still in use by my mum (mom) for net use/general office app work.
pentium 100
17" sony monitor (still use it now)
16mb ram
1gb hard drive 4x cdrom
2mb ati graphic card
soundblaster 16
altec lansing speakers (still use)
4x cdrom
floppy
colorado tape back up
HP 560 printer
17" sony monitor (still use it now)
16mb ram
1gb hard drive 4x cdrom
2mb ati graphic card
soundblaster 16
altec lansing speakers (still use)
4x cdrom
floppy
colorado tape back up
HP 560 printer
First off, AWESOME TOPIC IDEA!!!!!!!!!!
Motherboard: Shuttle HOT-603 .... the AMD chipset that isn't advertised on shuttles web site because of pressure(threats) by intel. I had to actually e-mail them to get the link for the online manual for it. All other manuals wer on the web site though in the same spot??? Coincidence???
Processor: Cyrix PR166MX
mem: 64 meg at 66 MHz
3d video card: 3dFX Voodoo card. Forgot who made it, but it was the 6 meg version, not hte 4!!!! YEahhh
2d Video card: a 4 meg Matrox card. Forget which one.
sound: geomot Game Theater 64.
HD: 5.2 gig or so
Cd player: forget who. Had a good seek time athte time though.
keyboard: generic
mouse: mouse systems: scroll with 5 buttons!!! SWEET
Case: Enlight, forget modle
I still have everything here as my current rig with the following upgrades:
128 meg of memmmory, one stick.
another hard drive, 8 gig for a total of about 13 gig.
AMD k6-2 400
video card is now a voodoo 3.
CD burner
That's about it.
Motherboard: Shuttle HOT-603 .... the AMD chipset that isn't advertised on shuttles web site because of pressure(threats) by intel. I had to actually e-mail them to get the link for the online manual for it. All other manuals wer on the web site though in the same spot??? Coincidence???
Processor: Cyrix PR166MX
mem: 64 meg at 66 MHz
3d video card: 3dFX Voodoo card. Forgot who made it, but it was the 6 meg version, not hte 4!!!! YEahhh
2d Video card: a 4 meg Matrox card. Forget which one.
sound: geomot Game Theater 64.
HD: 5.2 gig or so
Cd player: forget who. Had a good seek time athte time though.
keyboard: generic
mouse: mouse systems: scroll with 5 buttons!!! SWEET
Case: Enlight, forget modle
I still have everything here as my current rig with the following upgrades:
128 meg of memmmory, one stick.
another hard drive, 8 gig for a total of about 13 gig.
AMD k6-2 400
video card is now a voodoo 3.
CD burner
That's about it.
radioouman
Diamond Member
- Nov 4, 2002
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5 years ago...
Pentium 120
850 meg and 1.6 gig hard drives
Matrox Millenium with 2 meg
2X Hi-Val CD-R SCSI drive
Sound Blaster 16 and Ensoniq PCI sound cards (no direct audio at the time, so I needed to cards to play two different files at once...)
One pair of Yamaha speakers with two inputs
Pentium 120
850 meg and 1.6 gig hard drives
Matrox Millenium with 2 meg
2X Hi-Val CD-R SCSI drive
Sound Blaster 16 and Ensoniq PCI sound cards (no direct audio at the time, so I needed to cards to play two different files at once...)
One pair of Yamaha speakers with two inputs
Let's see, late 1997 I had:
Dell Dimension XPS166c
Pentium 166MHz
32MB EDO RAM
7.4GB total storage (2 HDDs)
Teac 6x CD-ROM
2MB #9 Motion 771 Video
SB AWE32
USR Sportster 28.8
Samsung 6Ne 17" monitor
Dell Dimension XPS166c
Pentium 166MHz
32MB EDO RAM
7.4GB total storage (2 HDDs)
Teac 6x CD-ROM
2MB #9 Motion 771 Video
SB AWE32
USR Sportster 28.8
Samsung 6Ne 17" monitor
K6-450
64MB PC100
Some Asus board ??
a crappy sound and 8 MB video I can't remember...
It was my first rig... I bought a book on building your own and built my own..
No one I knew had any experience with computers at all... so I was kind of on my own... didn't have access to the internet so that book was it...
Phew I've come a long way
64MB PC100
Some Asus board ??
a crappy sound and 8 MB video I can't remember...
It was my first rig... I bought a book on building your own and built my own..
No one I knew had any experience with computers at all... so I was kind of on my own... didn't have access to the internet so that book was it...
Phew I've come a long way
p133
48mb edo ram
2mb ati card
1.7GB fugi
12x cd rom
15" monitor
soundblaster 16
case was a baby AT desktop
48mb edo ram
2mb ati card
1.7GB fugi
12x cd rom
15" monitor
soundblaster 16
case was a baby AT desktop
Red Dawn
Elite Member
- Jun 4, 2001
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Probably close to the top of the line CPU
Some kind of Asus Motherboard (only bought Asus back then)
128 meg SDram
18 gig 7200RPM IBM SCSI Drive
Who knows what kind of Video Card
Probably a VooDoo 2
Floppy
Antec Sever Case
Sound Blaster
17" Monitor
Plextor or Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM
I've had dozens of computers since then (or upgrades) so I can't begin to remember exactly what it was that I had 5 years ago. I started building my own computers back in the 386 days and building them for sale around the time the 486 came out. I stopped doing that when it was impossible to make any decent money at it (around 2 years ago) Back then it was a challenge to build a good system but these days a trained Monkey can do it. Hell back then it was a daunting task just to find the drivers.
Some kind of Asus Motherboard (only bought Asus back then)
128 meg SDram
18 gig 7200RPM IBM SCSI Drive
Who knows what kind of Video Card
Probably a VooDoo 2
Floppy
Antec Sever Case
Sound Blaster
17" Monitor
Plextor or Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM
I've had dozens of computers since then (or upgrades) so I can't begin to remember exactly what it was that I had 5 years ago. I started building my own computers back in the 386 days and building them for sale around the time the 486 came out. I stopped doing that when it was impossible to make any decent money at it (around 2 years ago) Back then it was a challenge to build a good system but these days a trained Monkey can do it. Hell back then it was a daunting task just to find the drivers.
That would be Nov. 97..
It's either
My very first brand new PC I got during 8th grade:
Pentium 100Mhz (I was jealous of my cousin Casey's 200Mhz Pentium Pro LOL)
8mb EDO RAM (later spent $150~ & upgraded to 64mb.. A true geek upgrades his PC with his birthday money)
2x CDRom
1.2 gb of HDD (I remember Win95 taking up 200mb already)
Some Sierra POS 1mb videocard (ISA)
Some old old PC16 Soundblaster soundcard (Your soundcard works perfectly! -Warcraft 2)
Mitsubishi 15" monitor
28.8K modem
Junior year in high school:
AMD K6-2 333Mhz with 3DNow! (man remember the hype of 3DNow! & Pentium's MMX)
64mb SDRAM (Did I upgrade to 128mb? not sure)
Intergrated Onboard sound/video (sharing 4-8mbs of RAM)
It's either
My very first brand new PC I got during 8th grade:
Pentium 100Mhz (I was jealous of my cousin Casey's 200Mhz Pentium Pro LOL)
8mb EDO RAM (later spent $150~ & upgraded to 64mb.. A true geek upgrades his PC with his birthday money)
2x CDRom
1.2 gb of HDD (I remember Win95 taking up 200mb already)
Some Sierra POS 1mb videocard (ISA)
Some old old PC16 Soundblaster soundcard (Your soundcard works perfectly! -Warcraft 2)
Mitsubishi 15" monitor
28.8K modem
Junior year in high school:
AMD K6-2 333Mhz with 3DNow! (man remember the hype of 3DNow! & Pentium's MMX)
64mb SDRAM (Did I upgrade to 128mb? not sure)
Intergrated Onboard sound/video (sharing 4-8mbs of RAM)
15" POS monitor not even good enough to have a name printed on it
Bf6 BX chipset
Celery 500
128MB PC100
13GB HDD
VooDoo3 2000
56k dialup
32x CDROM
... damn, that system SUCKED when I had it built! :Q
nik
P.S. Maybe this wasn't five years ago?
Bf6 BX chipset
Celery 500
128MB PC100
13GB HDD
VooDoo3 2000
56k dialup
32x CDROM
... damn, that system SUCKED when I had it built! :Q
nik
P.S. Maybe this wasn't five years ago?
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