What computer were you using 10 years ago?

[BladeVenom]

AMD 2600
Radeon 9800 Pro
1 GB memory
80GB HD

 

[acheron]

Hmm. Definitely an Athlon of some kind. Looks like I bought the 3200+ in mid-2005, so it would be the one before that which was... was it still an Athlon Thunderbird 1333 MHz? Think so. And at the start of the year I was still on an ATI Rage Fury 128 video card from ~2000; I upgraded that finally in the second half of '04.

 

[homebrew2ny]

Interesting thread!

10 years ago was my hay day of computer building, however I was a longtime onion back then and just a ATOT lurker. None the less, I was fully engulfed in building, tweaking, and such. Here are a few photo's of my setup 10 years ago. And while I do not remember the specifics exactly, I as sure it was a barton + Radeon 9500/9700 type rig.

A few other screenies from way back when...

 

[HeXen]

^ Is that the Lanboy ? I had one very similar to that but it was called Lanboy and I can't think of the maker for nothing. I know it starts with an A. I remember it was super lightweight, should have kept it.
wait, Antec Lanboy 3 I think it was.

 

[DigDog]

some one-core AMD 1.8Ghz with 2Gb ram (wow!) and 80Gb HD.

and a DVD writer. top of the line, really.

playing neverwinter nights like a boss.

 

[homebrew2ny]

^ Is that the Lanboy ? I had one very similar to that but it was called Lanboy and I can't think of the maker for nothing. I know it starts with an A. I remember it was super lightweight, should have kept it.
wait, Antec Lanboy 3 I think it was.

Yes, the Antec LanBoy. The first one that came with the carry strap!

 

[SlowSpyder]

I had a Duron that ran at ~2200MHz that I swapped out for a 2500+ mobile that ran at 2500MHz. I had a GeForce Ti4200, then a GeForce 6800n/u around then. 1280x1024

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Let's see... 2004?

Either Athlon XP 3200 or a AMD 64 3500..

Not really remembering

 

[mmntech]

Hmm, Gotta think about this one. IIRC...


Circa 2004
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
ECS K7S5A mobo
GeForce FX 5200
512MB of PC133 (May have been 1GB DDR though)
SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1
17'' CRT monitor

Glory of glories. I didn't have any money back then. I remember getting a SoundBlaster X-FI and GeForce 6600 the following year. I still use the X-FI. No idea what this thing had for storage. Some IDE drives. I was jealous of those who had the Barton cores back then. Those Palominos ran hot enough to fry an egg on.

I also bought a laptop in 2005. Had a iBook G4 1.33ghz, with the 12'' screen. Still works and I was using it as a DLNA media streaming server up until a couple years ago.

 

[HeXen]

You know I still have that Pewter pinky or whatever he was called, sitting on my shelf next to the Myst 3 "Squee" pewter figure.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

POS Dell Dimension 1.6Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, 16MB video card

 

[homebrew2ny]

You know I still have that Pewter pinky or whatever he was called, sitting on my shelf next to the Myst 3 "Squee" pewter figure.

Nice! Still got mine tucked away as well

 

[RelaxTheMind]

athlon xp (Thoroughbred) 1700+ @ ~2ghz w/ thermalright sk-something all copper polished

512mb sdram on an old k7t pro
ti-4200

all was still in a random compaq case running a dedicated linux minecraft server up until last year when it was replaced by my old amd 965 setup

 

[sandorski]

I don't remember exactly. Either a Barton 2800+ or Athlon X2 3800, it was right around that time I made the upgrade. Motherboards were something I don't recall/Asrock SATA2. Both were using either a Radeon 9800Pro or x800xl. Had 1 gb of PC3200 and was using a 19" Mitsubishi Diamontron. Case was a Thermaltake Xaser(a 3 and some letters were involved in the name ). Don't remember HD sizes, but they would have been Seagates.

 

[irishScott]

I was 16, so family computer. Old Dell Win2k Pentium 3 1 GHz with a Matrox Millennium graphics card. 512 MB of RAM. Was decent for its day I suppose, but I didn't get to upgrade until I left for college in 2006.

 

[RossMAN]

Dell 700m who remembers the infamous Dell $750 off $1499 coupon pandemonium?

 

[Ichinisan]

nForce 2 AMD system. Half Life 2.

 

[DigDog]

oh, and mine had an integrated S4 video chip - truly horrible

 

[Arkaign]

In 2003 I built a P4 2.4B, OC'd it to 3.2Ghz, started with 2x512MB PC3200 CL2, and had a Ti4200, then later on a 9800 Pro.

I loved that system, it was fast, cool, quiet, and stable. I also built a ton of AXPs during that time, but never had one that was that fast. Then I got my first AMD64 system, a socket 940 Opteron, and was really impressed.

 

[jumpncrash]

pretty sure I was on my barton 2500, 512 MB of ram probably, maybe 1gb, probably running a radeon 9550GE.

Don't have any pics here though (at work)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1.4Ghz Athlon Thunderbird
Either an ATI 9200 or a Hercules 4500
Either 512MB or 128MB SDRAM
40GB hard drive

 

[_Rick_]

2133 MHz Thoroughbred-B (XP2700+)
Probably a Radeon 9600Pro or Geforce 6800 GT
2GB of no-name DDR, or something like that.
Epox EP8RDA3+ board. Old Fujitsu OEM case.
Probably a beQuiet PSU - 450W most likely.
19 inch and 17 inch CRTs.
Soundblaster 4.0 digital
MX 500 mouse and Fujitsu branded OEM keyboard that came with the case in '01.

That was the first machine I upgraded on internals, first getting the mobo and later the CPU.
I also had a DVD-ROM and a CD-Writer in there. Maybe even a DVD-Writer at some point. I definitely had one in my 2006 build.

 

[Rubycon]

Workstation:

Supermicro X5DAE motherboard
Supermicro Chassis
Xeon 2.66GHz Prestonia Socket 604 CPU x2
Zippy server power supply, 700W
4GB Registered ECC Micron Memory (used /PAE switch in XP Pro)
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card for Plextor SCSI 24X SCSI CDRW and 8X DVD RW drives
LSI 320-4X U320 RAID card with 512MB ECC DDR cache
4U U320 enclosure holding 18 Fujistu MAU 146GB 15K drives in various RAID arrays
AVID 64 bit firewire card
Event and MOTU audio i/o on 1394 bus
Nvidia Quadro FX 4000
Apple 30" Studio LCD x2
Wacom Digitizer with 12 button pucks

Laptop/notebook:

Fujitsu Lifebook
10" 1280x800 LCD
Pentium iii m 1.1GHz CPU (banias)
512MB DDR
60GB IBM 7200 ATA HDD
Windows XP Pro
This laptop still runs and as a matter of fact the original battery dated September 2003, still works and holds a satisfactory charge! This computer cost $3500 originally.

For those of you saying their computers barely work today, this one is a lot less than a Barton with 1 or 2GB of RAM and it still works OK. Granted sites loaded with flash (use an ablocker for heaven's sake!) and youtube, netfflix, etc. But we didn't have streaming video like that ten years ago...



I cannot think of anything else at the moment.

 

[redhotiron2004]

Manufactured in 1996-1998. A DELL pentium 486Mhz with 512MB hardisk. 16MB RAM. DOS 6.22 with Win 3.1. I still have it functional. But, it's not used now. Just sitting in the gerage.

 

[amyklai]

I got a Thinkpad R40 w/ SXGA screen in the spring of 2004. Before, I had a Thinkpad A30.