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Right well we havent had one of these topics for quite a while so its about time we cast our minds back to the first PC we ever owned.
List here all the PC's you have owned and any consoles too.
What was your first machine that launched your happiness / fustration with the world of computers....

Mine are:

First remember using an old BBC computer back in the 80's that had the good old 5 1/4 inch floppy's that would corrupt soooo very easily, and a huge square monitor.
Then finally that got binned and I got my first PC, a 486 SX 33 in 1992.
It was my first real PC and had a 170mb Hard drive and 4mb RAM which cost the earth back then.
Over the years this got updated to a 486 DX 100, before then being upgraded to a Pentium MMX 200Mhz.
This PC then died and was eventually replaced with a AMD K62 500mhz which I still use for Internet and E-mail though it is very old now.

Plus this year, I built my first ever beast of a new PC, my P4 3.4ghz, ATI graphics card, Asus motherboard, with a massive 19" monitor, DVDRW, and lots of cool things inside.

As for consoles:

Started out with the original gameboy, before getting a Snes which is still working actually. A good game of Donkey Kong on that is quality. Then left the gaming life for a while before getting a Sega Dreamcast. RIP. It was a good console even though it had a short life.
Now currently got a Gamecube.

Ah the good old days.

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First machine was a homebuilt rs machine that had tank battle , pong and a motorcycle jump

I then had many years of fun with atari both the 800 computer and the 2600 console,I used the atari as a word processor for years

First pc well I was a bit late A 300 cyrix (clocked at 233) 32 meg of ram,2.1 gig hdd cd driver onboard gfx upto 4 meg (wow) it did come with a 15 inch crt and a rediculasly expensive extended garrentee :)
Tried to upgrade this and watched others do it,then I desided to build my own in about 2000, 1200 Athlon 128 ram 20 gig hdd cd drive 32 meg gfx geforce2,
cost me £500 quid,sold this 2 weeks later for £600 and the cycle began for me

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For the Computers:
Used a BBC in school but had spectrum 48k then a +2
Moved onto a 486 SX 20, 110 MB HD, 1MB Video Ram
Things were quiet for a while then I moved onto a PIII 600Mhz a P4 1.7GHz and finally my current Athlon 64 3200+. This little beauty was built myself and does the job brilliantly.
I have just bought an Apple iBook which makes me think the next upgrade will be to an Apple instead of another PC.

For the consoles:
A Sega gamegear.
Playstation 1
Saturn
N64
Dreamcast
PS2
XBox

Out of those the Xbox and Dreamcast are the only ones still used. The others have been ebay'd off.

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Hmm - (dredges up memories!)

At school,
PET 2000
ICL Mainframe (via teletype & punched tape :Yikes: )

At home, Dragon 64, ZX81 & ZX Spectrum.

At Uni, various IBM XT clones and Prime mainframes

At work, started with an IBM XT and an HP 150. First laptop was a Tosh B/W 486/66 (iirc).

First home PC was an HP Pavilion Pentium 166 MMX (48Mb EDO RAM) - still being used by Mother-in-law:Yikes:

Then Pentium 3 500 (my Mother has this one), Athlon XP 1600 and now my A64 3000.

Consoles - early Atari system, Gameboy, GB Colour, GB Advance and XBox.

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Ah good to see there are atleast a few Dreamcasters still around then.
I even hear they still make games for it in Japan.

As for PC's.... I cant believe how much Ram used to cost. I remember paying about £100 for just 8mb extra. Madness.
And if I had my original 170mb Hard drive right now it wouldnt even handle a few seconds full screen video let alone Windows XP.
I used to run Windows 3.11.....how old is that now !!!
I used to get really fustrated as my icons would love to randomely change position.

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Started on a BBC model B at school in the mid 80's...playing 'hunt the wumpus' and 'star trek' and programming in basic and machine code and saving onto 8.5" floppies.........then we went over to 5.25" floppies :disturbd:
Vic-20 at home at the same time.

Mac at uni with a massive 40 mb hdd..........thought it was the bees knees :D

First PC was a pentium 200 mmx with a 2gb hdd

Athlon 1200--upgraded to 2100xp

......and you all know what I have atm :D

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Hmmm, its tough to recall....

Used to mess about with the old BBC/Acorn Electrons etc at school, I remember when we first got e-mail and thought it was the mutt's nuts.

Home computers;
C64 (hooray!)
Some old PC, with something between a 100 and 200 MHz processor from a dodgy kid at school.
An even dodgier Time Athlon XP2200+ which proved to be completely impossible to upgrade in any way, so shortly after got taken to bits.
And now an Athlon XP3000+

Consoles;
I inherited an Atari 2600 from an uncle initially.
Followed by Sega Master System (Mark II)
Sega Mega Drive (Mark I)
Playstation
Dreamcast
XBox

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Almost forgot--I had a 3DO consol back in 1995 :rolleyes:

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I remember losing loads of sleep after borrowing my friends playstation 1 and playing doom late at night,scared the begeezers out of me ,and im glad to say doom3 did exactlly the same :LOL:

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ZX81 (in 1981 ;) )
Spectrum 48K
Amstrad 2286
Escom 486 DX66MHz (upgraded to 486 DX100 MHz 'overdrive')
Apricot 486 DX200MHz
Self Built Cyrix 233 MHz
Advent PIII450MHz
Self built AMD XP2000 - upgraded to AMD XP2600

OS - Windows 2.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.1 'For Workgroups', Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98se, Windows XP pro.

The most I paid for RAM was nearly £200 for 8meg :Yikes:

- the only 'console' I ever had was one of those Binatone ones with either 'pong' type tennis or 'football' using rotary controllers :D

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Consoles:
Hmm well atm I have Xbox x3 , the ps2 is defunct really its laser has gone dodgy, the DC rarely comes out to play anymore but that was a little quicky cheep 2nd hand purchase as I missed soul calibur.
Before DC when everyone else was playing the crapy gfx of psx or worse it wasnt really a console but a room filled with arcade games. I have no clue now of how much equipment went thru my hands but it was at least 1/2 a millions worth. please dont ask for a list I cudnt list the lot.

Comps:
Past
Amstrad PPC640 DF + modem this is still kicking about somewhere but its not quite in 1 piece
Atari ST 1024 or whatever lived with me for a while
Apricot Xens 386 16sx now binned
Rock 486 25SX This got expanded upgraded etc etc so many times today its a total of 6 comps ranging from an amd 1.4 TB for a router to a 3.2 prescot Intel system as my main user box. Theres also a reasoanble bundle of older parts no longer used strewn around the house in varous hidey holes.
XP and suse are my current OS's
apart from the redhat server I share with a friend in usa

Im really more into hardware and networking than writing software but I do know html pretty good, and mildy know php mysql tcl bash scripting.

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i've had, roughly in order:
amstrad 8088 (with 2 floppy drives!)
NES
Opus 386sx/16, 40 MB HDD, 4MB ram and a 512K svga card (was top-notch at the time...)
Tiny P120, 16MB ram, 1GB HDD

From then on i built my own, cyrix 166+ upped to P200MMX. Ditched it all for a K6-2/450 with 192MB ram (which still runs XP brilliantly).

Then i got a T-bird 1.4 and a pre-production sample MSI KT266 board (S/N 00000008, iirc...) and some amazing ram that still runs at 200MHz DDR to this day, 5 years later...
nowadays i run an XP2000+. still got a GeForce 2 GTS, should probably upgrade it soon...
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now that i would lke to see ;)
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as for O/Ss, my favourite has to be GEM. did a lot at the time, and was rock solid :D

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First computer I ever bought - this one (don't ask about spec - I bought it from Tiny 3 years ago and that's all I'll commit myself to :blush: )

Games console - I've never owned one! :cry: :mis: (But who knows if I chuck out enough hints......... ;)
As you can tell I'm relatively new to all this pc and gaming stuff (but learning rapidly I like to think!)

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hands out the anoraks ;)

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can i have a duffle coat with very big toggles???:LOL:

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Im currently working on some video and if I had even attempted to do it on my AMD k6 500mhz it would have died.
A new Pc was long over due for me, however I still keep this one for the Internet. One is for dedicated music production and graphics and this old one is for internet and anything else.

One thing I have noticed over the years of owning computers is whenever the world went onboard crazy, there were a lot more problems. Whoever invented onboard to cut costs needs some sense kicking into them. Onboard sound and graphics on my old computer were part of its downfall.
Give me a dedicated ATI card and crisp clear no hiss soundcard anyday.

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Mine Computer

P1 100mhz
16mb Ram
690mb HD
CD drive
Floppy Drive
Windows 95


Console

Sega Master System 2 with inbuilt Sonic The Hedgehog.

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[QUOTE=Ramrod]...and you all know what I have atm :D


A Dragon 64:D

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Amiga 500
Amiga 1200 (120Mb hd)
First PC - 386 Dx2 66 upgraded to 16Mb RAM!
several homebuilt PC's
Mesh PC - only the case exists of the original machine - no tools req'd

@ work:
about 500 workstations - DEC/HP/Comqaq
about 35 servers - DEC/HP/Comqaq
about 85 laptops - IBM/Acer/Compaq/Toshiba


I have loads of toys to play with!

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Same - With the wobbly ram pack and cr*p printer.. I always found it funny that the '81 would run out of ram three quarters of the way down the screen..
Same.. Nothing like playing Jet Pac, Jet Man, Sabre Wulf, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy..
I never had an Amstrad of my own. I had a PC1512 I borrowed off my parents, but before that I had a Commodore 64.

After the '64, I had an Amiga 500 (with 1 Meg ram - wow) and then an Amiga 1200, with 120 meg hdd.
Yep.. Had one of those too.. With OS/2 Warp (which, once I got it working, walked all over Windows 3.1)


Then I upgraded to a self built Cyrix 166 (in the same case :) ) with a dodgy copy of Windows 95. It had 8 (then 16) meg of Ram and a 2Meg Matrox Mystique (remember those?) GFX card.

Then I got a PIII450 (the 166 was a couple of years old and showing it's age), with 64 Meg Ram and a 32 Meg GeForce 1..

Then I got an AthlonXP 1.8 with 128 Meg ram. This died, so was replaced with a Duron 800, which was replaced with an AthlonXP 1.8 again (when I could afford it). All had 128 Meg ram. The second Athlon was upgraded first to 512Meg and then to 768Meg.

This lasted until nearly a year ago, when the Athlon died, and I needed a computer (I was in the middle of creating a manual for the students when the motherboard died, taking out the CPU as well), so I rushed up to Tottenham Court Road and bought my current motherboard and CPU, Which is an Asus Socket 754 board (A8N deluxe I think) and an Athlon 64 3000 (which was all they had in stock at the time, and I couldn't wait as I needed the document finished by Monday). This now has a GeForce 6600GT, 1 Gig of Corsair Ram and around a third of a terrabyte of storage on various disk drives (1 x 120 Gig IDE Drive, 1 x 160 Gig USB drive and 1 x 200 Gig SATA drive), as well as a DVD writer and region-free DVD Rom.

And I also have a Sony Vaio and have been promised a Mac Mini from work... :D

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Computers:

ZX Spectrum 48k

ZX Spectrum +

ZX Spectrum +2A

Amiga A500

Amiga A1200

Pentium 150 MHz PC

Pentium III 450 MHz PC

Athlon 1.3 GHz PC

Pentium 4 3GHz PC (current)


Consoles:

Sega Mastersystem

Nintendo NES

Nintendo SNES

Atari Jaguar

Nintendo 64 (current)

Sega Dreamcast (current)

Nintendo GameCube (current)

MS XBox (current)


Handheld consoles:

Sega GameGear

Nintendo GameBoy Advance

Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP

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Early Days

Spectrum 32k (I think)
Vic 20
Memotech (built like a Brick *** House)
Amstrad 464
Einstien
Sharp MZ700
Sinclair QL
Atari 1200XL (something like that Anyhow)
CBM 64
MSX

Getting More Powerfull
Amiga 500
Amiga 1000
Amiga 4000 (Uber machine tbh)
Amiga 600

Step into the PC range now..
Escom Pentium Machine - Cannot recall Now what spec though..
.....plus Loads of Updated PC's along the way - as you do...

Console's
(I still have these btw)
Playstation 1
Nintendo 64 + Doctor 64
DreamCast Jap Version
XBOX

Just dragged the Dreamcast out of Loft as it goes, Gfx aint that bad you know, good little console. Ive hooked it up to my Monitor + Speaker, connect on Switcher...

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Started with a Commodore 64 (new style, but no disk drive :(), given to me in 1990. Then got a second hand Amiga 500, one of the very first ones with Kickstart 1.2! After that, I moved into PC-land, first with a 486sx/25, and then a DX4/100, with a whopping 8MB of RAM and Windows 95. If you dropped to DOS mode, it even played Quake, albeit at 320x200.

After that, I had a P166MMX with, I think, 32meg RAM, in about 1997. It did okay for Quake 2 in software mode, but Half-Life looked terrible. I ended up buying a Voodoo Graphics board for it -- what an amazing bit of kit! Also about this time I got a Playstation (old-style one with three RCA outputs on the back).

In 1999 I spent a bundle on a brand new system. It was powered by an AMD K6-2 450, with 128MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 graphics card. That was a great setup. Not cutting edge, even when I bought it, but it did me well. Ran Windows 98. This was followed by....

An AMD AthlonXP 1800+, 256MB RAM and a GeForce 2 MX400 video card. I got this in 2000 (I think), and it would still run Half-Life 2 today. After this, I got more into replacing bits of it at a time -- a much more wallet-friendly upgrade procedure! I've replaced every component over the years, even the case. I'm now running an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB RAM and a GeForce 4 TI4600, and I'm very pleased with it (even if my dual-RAID 0 SATA disks are wasted because I currently spend 90% of my time running Linux off an old ATA100 drive!)

My next upgrade will be to the video card, probably to a Radeon 9800 Pro, when I come across one going cheap on eBay. After that, I think I'll be content to sit on it for a year or two until dual-core Athlon 64s become affordable...

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First PC was an APPLE II in 1980.

Then a BBC B in 1981, a BBC Master 128k in 1983, an Acorn A3020 around 1987, An Acorn Risc PC600 in the early 1990's followed by a Risc PC700.

Then a Tiny Pentium 120 in the mid 1990's, a homebuilt Celeron 450MHz, which I then upgraded to 750MHz and then 1 GHz (and still have, running as a home router). I currently a P4 2.4GHz and a P4 2.8GHz.

(Prior to 1980 I used the CEGB mainframe)

:)

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Let me see - over the years I've had (and all still working I add :))

Commodore VC 20
Commodore 64
Ohio Superboard (With m$ basic on rom)
Acorn Electron
BBC 'A'
BBC 'B'
BBC Master 128

Amiga 500,600,1200 (with blizzard accelerator and hdd)

486dx100
AMD K6 III - 400mhz
Athlon 1ghz
Duron 1.8ghz
Athlon XP 2.6
P4 2.66ghz
P.4 3.02ghz

NES
Master system
Megadrive
Mega CD
Amiga CD32 (Well someone had to)
PS1
PS2 (Old style 1st gen)
PS2 (New slim one)
Game boy
Game boy color
Game boy Advance
Game boy Advance SP

These are the one I've used. I've been given some spectrums and an amstrad cpc6128.... But they just get left in the loft.

My newest addition will no doubt be either a nintendo DS or a psp. But that's a discussion for another thread :)

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the first computer was an acorn electron(still have it)
i currently own(a lot thanks to ebay:disturbd: )
bbc b
bbc master
amiga 500 a1200
spectrum+2 and +3
atari st and falcon
c64
cd32
archimedes
atari 2600
nes
snes
n64
gamecube
virtual gameboy
pc engine
pc engine duo
gameboy colour
master system
megadrive and a mega cd
gamegear
saturn
dreamcast (highly underated console)
atari lynx
atari jaguar
neogeo aes (cost me far too much)
pentium 75 pc
k62 450 pc
duron1.2 pc
athlon2500+ pc
3700 64 socket 939 pc

thats all i can remember off the top of my head. i have more items. I dread to think how much some of this kit cost me then and how much i have spent on ebay...lol

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Very breif list ...ish

Consoles were ..

Zx Spectrum
Vectrex................. still used today :) wicked astroids clone
Sega .. still got in attic at Mum's house

PC's

Started about 5 years ago with a 486
Then a MMX 200 I think it was
Upgraded to a 500 mb machine then

mixed and matched bits and peices for a couple of years up to a 1.7 Gb machine with dvd / cd writer
Ended up with this store bought pc and have modded it a bit

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Amstrad CPC 464
NES
SNES
N64
PSX
PII 233mhz
p4 2.2ghz