What computers have you owned?

[Hom3r]

I was there at the birth I had the following, I'm not sure of the order of the very early stuff.


ZX81 (we had 2)
TRS-80 (it died within a week)
Video Genie

Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 130XE
Atari 520ST
Atari 1040ST


Then we started PC path
286
386
486
Pentuim 4 (IIRC)


Then I went down the laptop route
Toshiba
Compaq
Sony VIAO (My current System)
I still use my Samsung NC-10 for travel

[nomadking]

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)

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.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by nomadking

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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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.

Multi booting in this way imo is the absolute worst way possible

I always multiboot off separate discs but each set as primary when installed so each has its own loader. I then set the main OS as primary and just use boot select to switch drives.

The corsair cases I mentioned are traditional cases with decent storage options. There is plenty of choice in the cheap pressed steel cases also with the old traditional set up. I really do not like all the flashy RGB cases on the market today and I also hate glass side panels that reflect the screen and distract me

[SnoopZ]

The first Computer I had access to was an Acorn Electron when my parents surprised me and my sister after school when they set it up on the kitchen table and that's when my gaming properly started as I was blown away.

Then I bought myself or built the following.
Amiga 500 as it was the better choice over the Atari ST for gaming.
Amiga 1200 and added my first ever HDD to it.

Then got a second hand 386 PC and eventually upgraded it to a 486DX4 100 so I could be mind blown by
DOOM 2.

Then it went something like this.
Built a new Celeron PC and I believe this is the point I discovered online gaming and the internet with Quake 2.
Upgraded CPU to Pentium 3
New build using Athlon 64 3200
Intel Dell laptop not used for gaming.

Saw the light and stopped gaming on PC and moved to Consoles solely for gaming and haven't looked back.

Still built PCs but not used for gaming so have had a few with i3 processors which is my current and fine for normal computer use, although using a Tab 7 has pretty much replaced that now.

Consoles owned
Playstation 1
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One (big regret)
Saw the light again and moved to
Playstation 4
Playstation 5.

[tweetiepooh]

OpenSuse used to let you install GRUB on a different disc to the O/S so I had disc 1 setup with Windoze booting and disc 2 with GRUB but both O/S's on disc 1 and data on disc 2.
GRUB can boot both Linux and Windows, my normal booting but when Windows wants to do updates it also wants to reboot multiple times so I can switch to that loader when needed. Now it forces GRUB to same disc as the O/S which is a pain so I'd want separate discs for each O/S type, GRUB should still load Windows and Linux.


I don't want a flashy case either but since it lives under the desk it's looks are less problematic. The lights in mine are a feint red behind front fans, normally switched off. My issue with the case is it blows cool air into the desk and chills my lap.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

I still use my Samsung NC-10 for travel

I had it's brother the N310
Was alright as an Internet browser but I eventually found it way too slow.
Those atom processors were not the fastest of CPUs.