RETRO! What was your Rig 5 years ago?

[optimistic]

This rig was either 96 or 97 (can't remember).

PROFESSIONAL BRAND -Custum Built
AT Tower Case
Pentium 166MHz
16mb Edo Ram 72ns
2.0GB Maxtor Hard Drive
16X (or was it 8x?) speed CDROM
Trident 4mb Video Card
HP 540 Printer (retired, but still works)
Juster Speakers (Still in use)
AT&T Windows Keyboard (Only origianl equipment still in use for my main comp)
Bundeld with Office 95

Cost about $1300-$1500 w/o monitor. Would have been $1100 if it wasn't for the MS Office 95.

 

[teqwiz]

4 years ago: P III 450 SECC2 HP Pavillion. Still runs as a client. First and only, Proprietary Hardware.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: Frosty3799
ummm non-existent

 

[secretanchitman]

Mine was:

Dell Dimension H 266 Mhz
128MB o' RAM
Floppy Drive
24X Toshiba CD-ROM Drive
5 gig HD
Windows 98, I think
Dell Quietkey Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse
17: Dell Trinitron Monitor

I still use the monitor and keyboard for my new rig...

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Packard Bell
Intel 200 MHz w/MMX
16 MB 60ns EDO RAM
2.1GB Hard Drive
8X CD-ROM
S3 Trio 64+

 

[PraetorianGuards]

Oh yeah... my rig owned

Specs:
Gateway G6-400XL
P2 400MHZ 100fsb
128mb memory
Nvidia something something
On-board sound
19" Gateway monitor(still going strong!)

Ok ok...it wasn't quite five years ago but it's close enough.

 

[Evadman]

AMD k6/2 300 from Tiger. 32 Megs of memory, 8 gb Hard drive. I still have it, running like a champ as my internal router. Of course Tiger forgot to mention that the mobo could not be upgraded past 400 mhz even tough in the mag it said to 550. I paid $1600 some odd for it. My first add on was a 2x burner. that was about $300. For the first semester at College I was one of 2 students who had a burner. You cn bet it was used heavily.

 

[Balthazar]

19" CRT (still gets use even today)
PII 333 running at around 450
At some point in time (around about that time) I had a TNTII Ultra in it, got it the week it came out (can't f'in believe that I paid $350 for that....my God)
128MB RAM
2x CD-RW
24x CD-ROM
10GB HDD

And thus the addiction continued....

 

[Madcowz]

Some Soyo Board (top of the line at the time)
Celery 300A overclocked to 467 I believe
128MB RAM
18GB 7200RPM Western Digital HD (FIRST 7200RPM drive out at the time I do believe... paid over $500 for it!)
Matrox G200 16MB video Card
SoundBlaster AWE64 I believe
Some DVD-ROM (I think it was Pioneer)
21" Sony Trinitron

This coincidentally was the first rig I ever built, and I was quite proud. I still can't believe I paid over $500 for that hard drive... and to think, that was the lowest price on pricewatch at the time (just released). My current computer, a Dell 4550 costed about the same amount that hard drive did!

 

[nightowl]

Hmmmmm... Five Years ago...
My first build

P233MMX
64MB SDRAM
6.4GB WD HD
24X CDROM
16MB TNT PCI
15" Trinitron Monitor

 

[vetteguy]

Pentium 233MMX
32MB RAM
Soundblaster AWE 64 ISA
8X CD-ROM
3.5" Floppy
17" Trinitron Monitor
2.1 GB hard drive (primary)
2.4GB hard drive (secondary)
2mb video card (who knows what)

 

[ultimatebob]

I bought myself a really cool Sony VAIO for Christmas in 1997. It was state of the art at the time, and here are the specs:

A Pentium II 300
64 MB of RAM (which got upgraded to 128 MB in 1998)
An IBM 6.4 GB Ultra ATA-33 hard drive (I added another 10 GB drive when I ran out of space in 1999)
An ATI AllInWonder Pro 4MB AGP card (I added a Creative VooDoo2 8MB in 1998)
A 24X CD-ROM (A replaced it with a 6X DVD and decoder card in 1999)
A 100MB Zip drive (Which I had to replace in 2000)
An ESS Maestro sound card (The only bad part in the whole PC)
A Lucent 33.6 WinModem (I flashed it to K56Flex in 1998, and V90 in 1999. I still use it today when my DSL fails!
I also added a Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card in 2000)
A 17" Sony VAIO Triniton monitor (GREAT monitor! I still use it today!)
Windows 95 OSR2 (I replaced it with Windows 2000 Pro in 2001. I'm amazed that I kept it running stable without reformatting for 4 years!)

 

[Anghang]

celeron 300 clocked to 450mhz
256 MB
Turtle Bay sound card
Velocity 4400 16MB graphics card
20 gigs
17" Mag monitor
2x yamaha CD-R
some 8x cdrom
some 56k modem

 

[zippy]

I think I got this about 5 years ago...

P1 166MHz MMX
Socket 7 motherboard
Diamond Stealth 2500
1.5GB Hard Drive (I think...I later upgraded to 6.4GB for $200 :Q)
24x CD-ROM
15" AOC CRT
Soundblaster 16 sound
28.8 modem (later upped to 56k)

:Q

 

[CPUtrader]

A really pathetic P90.

I'm going to cry now...

 

[Thrillhou]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

RETRO! What was your Rig 5 years ago?

Heh - That's easy.
This is actually from 6 years ago -


IBM Aptiva
P-200
2.5 GB HDD
16 MB EDO DRAM (since upgraded to a whopping 80 MB!)
MWave sound and 28.8 modem
1X (maybe 2X) CD-ROM Drive
1.44 DD


I'm still using the same rig.

MWave sound card/modem! I was a co-op with MWave back in 1996. I still remember loading up Warcraft 2 as the first thing after we reinstalled so that we could do a Soundblaster/Modem test. We would have 4 of us all in the lab "testing" that function for hours over IBM's network. Best job ever!

I had:

IBM Aptiva P2-300
64MB SIMM RAM
6.4GB HDD
Built in Bose sound (with free subwoofer from friend in Aptiva dept.)
DVD (that I couldn't use to play movies)
2MB AGP onboard video (no AGP slots on motherboard)

I think it was around $3200, but it was a Christmas present from my dad.

 

[tommigsr]

packard bell 486dx2
1.2gb harddrive
32mb edo ram
2mb memory card
14.4 modem
one button mouse j/p hahaha
14 inch packard POS
cheap cdrom 4x
cheap floppy

there u have it

 

[Electric Amish]

One of the following... I don't remember exactly.

Pentium 200mmx (OC'd 233)
64mb RAM
Matrox Mystique 170 (4mb)
Seagate 1.28gb HD
3.5" Floppy
24x Toshiba CR-ROM
Soundblaster AWE64
15" Pixie monitor

or

Celeron 300a (@464)
Abit BH6
Matrox G200 16mb
17" Shamrock C17 monitor.
w/ the rest of the other components.

amish

 

[HermitGuy]

If memory serves.

AMD 133
16 MB RAM
240 MB Seagate HD
4X CD ROM
1MB Trident video
Sound Blaster COMPATIBLE ISA Sound card.

US-robotics 33.6 modem that I got a new chip for to upgrade it to X2 56k.

 

[p0ntif]

5 years ago? i was still lugging around my dell laptop . . . 486DX66 16MB ram. ooooh exciting. Played DOOM during lecture in college

 

[LanEvoVI]

P200 with a whopping 32 MB of EDO Ram
17" monitor
3.2 GB hard drive
Diamond Stealth 3D w/ 4 MB of VRAM

still chuggin along today as my parents comp at home..

 

Gateway Pentium 166 MHz...WITH MMX!!!!!
32 MB RAM
3.2 GB hard drive
onboard graphics
no ethernet
onboard sound
15" monitor
CD-ROM
floppy

it cost $1749.

 

[440sixpack]

Still livin' off my Jan. '94 technology:

Gateway 486-DX2/66MHz
16MB RAM
Dual WD 420MB HDD's
Aztech 16bit sound card
Diamond Viper VLB 2MB VRAM video card (still have it)
15" CrystalScan Monitor
2x CD-ROM

 

[CurtCold]

Pentium 100mhz
786 MB Hardrive
8MB of EDO
onboard audio, sound 33.6kbs modem
15" moniter with speakers on the side

Ohhh that's just sad...

 

[ElFenix]

Pentium Pro 200
32MiB EDO SIMMs
3.2GB WD 5400 RPM drive
24x CD ROM
Matrox Millenium 4MiB WRAM
Canopus Pure3D 6MiB
AWE32
no-name realtek combo card
17" CRT
its a dell