The 1st ones I owned were a ZX Spectrum +2, ZX Spectrum +3(with 3" floppy).
Followed by my 1st PC in 1989, a 386DX2-66. I spent £1,000 just on the 330Mb HDD.
Prior to that I had used various computers at school, University and work.
Recently semi-retired a 4th gen i7 self-built system from 2013, which amazingly still works.
Currently using a 12th Gen i9-12900K, RoG Maximus z690 Hero, RTX3060Ti self-built system.
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
My biggest bugbear with builds today is finding a case that can incorporate optical drive and internal memory card reader. Desk space is a premium so don't want external versions of these. It may be small issues but the rest of the bits are all pretty swappable.
I'd like a machine with multiple discs, one for Windoze, one for Linux and maybe a couple for data, the latter maybe RAID somehow. Partitions for photo's and music would be NTFS or equivalent to share between Linux and Windows unless I can get Windows to read/write Linux partitions. (Always need to be careful as File.txt and file.txt are different in Linux but gets Windoze confused as does author:title.txt)
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You don't have to devote the whole of a HDD, SSD etc to one OS. Multiple OS can reside in separate partitions.
A general tip(not just for computers) is to check out the manufacturers website for pdf manuals. You then then check whatever item can do what you want it to do.