Your past PC / Console systems

[Halcyon]

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.

[AndrewJ]

Mine Computer

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


Console

Sega Master System 2 with inbuilt Sonic The Hedgehog.

[Monster Jedi]

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


A Dragon 64

[goldchip]

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!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by homealone

ZX81 (in 1981 )

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..

Spectrum 48K

Same.. Nothing like playing Jet Pac, Jet Man, Sabre Wulf, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy..

Amstrad 2286

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.

Escom 486 DX66MHz (upgraded to 486 DX100 MHz 'overdrive')

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...

[Tezcatlipoca]

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

[Mauldor]

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...

[Tristan]

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...

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)

[dilli-theclaw]

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

[martikus]

the first computer was an acorn electron(still have it)
i currently own(a lot thanks to ebay )
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

[bopdude]

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

[OinkyBoinky]

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