1) ibm ps2, 8086, probably 8mhz or so--birth to 1994
2) some IBM computer that I can't remember but it played all the lucasarts games and had a cd player--1994-1997
3) ibm valuepoint 200mhz system (still IBM, I think), can't remember! I got a diamond monster 3d card upgrade for it in 1998 ---I think, not 100% sure on this one--1996-1999
4) gateway amd athlon 600mhz w/ 32mb 3d card, 1999-college. got me through counterstrike
5) dell inspiron 6200(?). p4 2 ghz, 64 mb video card. beat the shit out of it through college. 2002-2005
6) intrex 2.8ghz p4 desktop. simple build. probably the best computer I ever had, really. 2004-2006
7) generic 2.4ghz overclocked desktop. boring, gets the job done. 2006-current
8) my current pos laptop that I bought simply because it was cheap and gets the job done. athlon x2 and vista. 2008-current.

thinking back through all of this, I am really, really lucky that my parents, especially my dad, gave me the opportunity to use computers since birth. I'm nowhere near the IT industry but it's a blessing that computer skills are almost automatic.



[Edited on January 11, 2009 at 3:52 PM. Reason : .]

1/11/2009 3:48:25 PM

Mine's relatively short because of large gaps, so Ill post it.

1) Commodore 64.
2) Packard Bell 386 (with turbo button). Can't really remember the specs. You could buy a math coprocessor that would boost the CPU performance by 1MHz and I remember wanting to expand the memory by 1 MB RAM... never happened. This was my only computer up until 2000 Didn't use it for the last several years of its 'life cycle' but I remember dialing into NCSU with it. Probably got use up until '98.
3) HP Celeron 500MHz. I think it started out with 128 or 256MB of RAM, later added a 128 or 256 stick. Ended up with 384 at the end of the day. 2000 - 2002.
4) Dell P4 HT. 512MB RAM starting, ended up with 1GB. Maybe like a 2.4GHz processor. Started with integrated video, moved to a GeForce FX5200, ended up with a 9800 pro. 2002 - 2008
5) Generic. E6750, 2 GB RAM, 8800GT. 2008 -

1/11/2009 5:44:20 PM

1) Mean green screened 8080 (198X)
2) TI-99 (198X)
3) 386-33 (1989-93?)
4) 486-100 (1993?-1996)
5) Pentium 120, 1.2 GB HD, Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, SB AWE 32 (1996-1999)
6) AMD K6-2 500, 128 MB RAM, 14 gigs of HD, Voodoo 3 (1999-2004)
7) Athlon 2600+, 1 GB RAM, 200 GB HD, GeForce 5700 (2004-2007)
8) Athlon 64 x2 4200+, 6 GB RAM, 3.5 TB HD (7 drives in box), GeForce 7600GT (2007-present)

1/11/2009 6:02:27 PM

i remember jumping from a 286 to a pentium 75 with windows 95

1/11/2009 6:17:18 PM

1) IBM 486 1995-1996
2) Dell Dimension 4100, 1GHz PIII 2001. Just saw the receipt for this the other day, it was like $1300. I didn't really care about computers till I got this box...learned all I could on it.
3) Dell Dimension P4 2.4GHz 2003-2005
4) Home built Pentium D 2.8GHz 6800GTO 2005-2007/8. This was built with one of those Intel retail bundles
5) Dell Inspiron E1505 CoreDuo 1.66GHz 2006-present. Intranets browsing, Fold@Home
6) Dell Inspiron E530 Q6600 with a 9800GT 2007-present. Pretty much just Fold@Home on this with the occasional gameplay
7) Home built Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz, 1 8800GT and 1 9800GT 2008-present. Fold@Home

1/11/2009 6:53:44 PM

I don't remember all of mine, because other than a Corona green-screen monster and a C64, I've only had one big box manufacturer system; everything else has been a long string of piecemeal upgrades, only discarding the non-upgrade pieces when changes in system architecture demanded it.

I do remember the nerd strife that occurred upon moving into Sullivan freshman year, however. I was envious of my suitemates who weren't as much into computers as I was. They had better and faster gear than I did because their parents bought them a brand new rig to take to school with them, whereas I had been upgrading my own shit continuously throughout high school, so I couldn't afford to get everything top-of-the-line right before coming to school. It wasn't fair that the kids who weren't computer nerds had a better system than me that they wouldn't use to its full potential!

1/11/2009 7:05:52 PM

1) tandy 1000, switchable between 4 and 8 mhz, 8088, 640kb ram
2) hewlett packard pavilion 8140, 200mhz pentium (with mmx!), 32MB ram
3) systemax, some speed p3, 128MB ram, later upgraded
4) custom built athlon 64, don't remember the speed
5) macbook pro (2.16ghz core duo, 2GB ram)

1/11/2009 7:16:25 PM

haha.. i had a tandy t1000 too

1/11/2009 8:01:23 PM

1) Mac Plus
2) Mac Classic
3) Power Computing Power Center Pro 210
4) iMac G3 400 Graphite
5) PowerMac G4 DP800 Quicksilver - that bastard is still chugging along very, very nicely

1/11/2009 9:35:14 PM

Mine's pretty recent and short, since I am not really that old.

Some local guy built a PII system with a 32mb gpu for my family running windows 98 1997-2003
Dell Dimension 2400 2003-2006
Lenovo T60 2006-present
My baby- Q6600 GTX260 320GB HDD, mostly fold on it and occassionly game, built May 2008 with 7900GT, upgraded to GTX260 in august

1/11/2009 11:04:36 PM

1) 386/486-based PC with games in basic 92-96-ish
2) pentium I 133mhz "but it played all the lucasarts games and had a cd player--1995-1997"
3) pentium II 266mhz 1998-1999 (quantex)
4) pentium III 450mhz 1999-2003 (dell inspiron)
5) pentium 4 2.4C 2003-2004 (dell)
6) athlon 64 3000+ 2004-2005 (custom built PC's from this point on)
7) athlon X2 3200+ 2006
8) athlon X2 4600+ 2006-2007
9) intel e6600 2007
10) intel e8400 2008

this is just my desktop, i also have countless other processors along the way after the year 2004

[Edited on January 11, 2009 at 11:27 PM. Reason : .]

1/11/2009 11:23:28 PM

^^ who do you fold for?

1/11/2009 11:25:05 PM

Mac LC II
Mac Performa 577
Powermac 6500
Powerbook G4 Ti 400
Powermac 7600 w/G4 upgrade and OS X "hacked"
Powerbook G4 17" Albook 1.5ghz
Intel DG33TL w/Core 2 Quad running Mac OS X

1/11/2009 11:50:09 PM

^^People that he thinks has a better poker hand?

1/12/2009 7:19:34 AM

Tandy 1000TX 8 mhz. Still have it and it still runs like a top.
Custom Built 80486 switchable between 25 & 50 mhz.
Packard Bell P-133. 133 mhz. Biggest POS ever.
Gateway. 500 mhz.
Built my own w/AMD 1.7 ghz.
Built my own w/AMD 2.8 ghz
Built my own w/Athlon XP 3700+

Building Core i7 system now.

1/12/2009 9:48:19 AM

(2002-2004) Some old ass P2 or P3 system I can't even remember
(2004-2005) AthlonXP 1800+ | GeForce Ti 4400 | 512MB DDR333 rofl | XP 32
(2005-2006) AthlonXP 2600+ | ATI 9600XT | 2x512MB DDR400 | XP 32
(2006-2007) Pentium 4 531 3.0 GHz | GeForce 6800GT | 2x1GIG | Windows XP 32
(2007-current) e6750 @ 3.33 | GeForce 8800GTS 640MB | 4x1GIG DDR2 800 | eVGA 680i | XP 64 on an old 300gig sata, Win 7 64 on 120 gig partition of WD6400AAKS, rest for random backup, and another WD6400AAKS for storage.

[Edited on January 12, 2009 at 2:12 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2009 1:58:24 PM

Quote :

"^^ who do you fold for?"

PC Perspective Folding Frogs Team 734

1/12/2009 2:03:40 PM

in order of acquisition, not including computers which were valued at less than 100$ at time of acquisition

1. Packard Bell PB610 486SX 25MHz, 4MB RAM (upgraded to 8), 170MB HD (upgraded to 1.6GB)
2. NEC P2-MMX 200MHz, 32MB RAM (upgraded to 80MB), 4GB HD
3. bare bones Athlon 1GHz, PC Chips M805LR board, 256MB RAM, 30GB HD
4. custom Athlon 1800+, Soyo KT266 Dragon board, 512MB RAM, RAID-0 60GB
5. custom Dual Athlon 1800+, Tyan Tiger MPX board, 1GB RAM, 9800Pro
6. Dell Latitude D800 P-M 1.6GHz/512MB/WUXGA+
7. mad custom Dual Athlon XP-M 2500+, Tyan Thunder K7X board, 2GB RAM, external SATA RAID
8. Sun 12x 400MHz UltraSparc-II, E4500 chassis, 12GB RAM, external SCSI RAID
9. IBM T60 (work, technically)
10. IBM T43p (work again, display sucked on the T60)
11. Compaq DL380, Dual P3 1GHz, 1GB RAM, internal SCSI RAID

#5 was my last truly monolithic workstation, after that there's always been some level of network dependence in my environment. recently my workstations have been trending back towards dumb terminals while the server collection grows

1/12/2009 4:33:01 PM

Not counting machines I bought and resold:

1)Gateway G6-266, PII 266mhz, 32 MB RAM (later upgraded to 384), 6 GB hdd - 12/97 - 11/98, parents used up until 2005
2)Gateway G6-450xl, PII 450mhz, 128 MB RAM (later upgraded to 320), 8mb intel/16mb Matrox Millenium/32mb GeForce2 mx400 - 11/98 - 2006 (still works but no longer used)
3)Sun Sparc5-170, 170mhz UltraSPARC, 256 MB RAM, Solaris 8 - 2000 - 2004
4)Dell OptiPlex GXa, PII 333 mhz, 384 MB RAM, 16mb Matrox Millenium - 2000 - 2003
5)Homebuilt, AMD Athlon 1500 XP on Tyan Tiger MP board, 512 MB RAM, GeForce4 - 2003 - 2006, parents used 2006-2008
6)Homebuilt, AMD Athlon64 3700+ on Asus K8V-SE board, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6600GT 128mb - 2006 - current
7)Homebuilt, Core 2 Duo E6550 3.16(?) GHz, 4 GB RAM, Radeon X1900XT 512mb - 2008 - current

1/13/2009 12:24:14 AM

486-16/32 packard bell with turbo button
AMD 486 "turbo chip" 486x4/100
Cyrix 200+ 64MB Ram a 4MB voodoo was added somewhere around here
AMD K6-2 (dont remember speed)
Celeron 300A Overclocked to 450
Dual Pentium Pro 166 (separate server computer, setup Internet Conncection Sharing at home with it)
AMD K6-3 voodoo banshee somewhere around here, 16mb
AMD Athlon
AMD Athlon XP Nvidia TNT2 somewhere around here
AMD Thunderbird GeForce ti 200 then a radeon 9600
Pentium III 3.4 ATI 1800XTX
(Work Dell D610)

not in very good order, and I think I'm leaving some out but it's the best I can remember

1/13/2009 4:07:51 AM

1 - Apple Macintosh LC 475 (25mhz 16megs of ram (8 hardwired) 160 mb hdd) had scsi 4x cdrom and a external 320mb hdd (i think, could have been 640) on a 12 inch CRT. 1993/4 (xmas 93) - 1999
2 - Custom build AMD K6-3 (450mhz, 256 megs of ram and a 20 gb hdd) upgraded several times to include a 3rd generation NEC cd-burner, 40x cd-rom, geforce 2 ddr graphix card, on a 17 inch crt, 40 gb hdd 1999 - 2001
3 - Custom build in the same case but new innards, 1400mhz (1.4ghz) Athlon Thunderbird, with 512-2 gb ram 40 gb hdd. a pair of 80 gig drives replaced the 40 and 20 gb drives. 2001 - 2003
4 - Custom build new case? AMD 1800XP Athlon with 2gb ram, and a pair of 80 gb hdds, geforce 4 4200, and a newer 17 inch LCD. briefly had a ATI Radeon 9700. 2003 - 2005
5 - Custom build in the new case (antec 1080 model something) AMD 3500+XP Athlon 64, 3 gb ram, 2 500 gb hdds + 1 80 gb hdd, geForce 7950 agp card, 20 inch widescreen LCD. 2005 - now

my next one will probably be a dell or something

[Edited on January 13, 2009 at 9:30 AM. Reason : s]

1/13/2009 9:27:47 AM

only going to include computers I used as my main computer. too many extraneous ones

1. apple IIc
2. original macintosh
3. mac performa 6330 cd 16mhz, 4x cdrom, 1gb hdd, 16mb of ram
4. compaq persario NZ2650 athlon 650mhz 512k off die cache, 128mb ram, voodoo3, cdrw AND dvdrom - this is where I became addicted to pc gaming and had to have my OWN pc (the rest were family computers)
5. custom built pcchips pc I got off ebay - tbird 1.33, 256mb ram, geforce2 - was a piece of shit with faulty ram (when I first learned about trouble shooting computers. eventually put mostly new guts in it and while bragging about how well it ran CS, got my first job)
6. custom built 875p based intel box - 2.4C oc'd to 3ghz, 512mb ram, original raptor, dvdrw, radeon 9500 softmodded into a 9700 this is still technically my main box, though it went through an a64 3000+ venice and now a 4400+x2 with 2gb of ram and a 7950gx2. atleast 6 video cards between then and now
7. emachines 6805 laptop - 754 a64 3000+, 768mb ram, radeon 9600 - my first laptop
8. dell e1705 - core duo 1.8ghz, 1gb ram, 7900gs

[Edited on January 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM. Reason : no os, os 5, os 7, win98->2k->xp, 98->2k, 2k->xp, xp, xp]

[Edited on January 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM. Reason : 3,4,6,7, and 8 are all still around 6,7, and 8 in use]

1/13/2009 9:54:21 AM

1. Acer aspire 80486 75 Mhz, 8MB
2. Dell dimension t600r P3 600 Mhz, 64 MB (i think?), used as server until 2006
3. Dell dimension 2400 celeron 2.0 GHz, 256 MB (i think?)
4. sony vaio p4 2.8 GHz, 512 MB
5. compaq/hp sr1625nx Athlon x64 3200 2.0GHz, 1 GB, 6800gs
6. ibm thinkpad t42p centrino 1.6 Ghz, 1.25 GB, current laptop
7. custom msi p6n sli, core2duo e6600 oc'd to 3.2 GHz, 4GB installed, 8800gts - built to play oblivion, currently use
8. custom ecs a780gm amd "black", athlon x2 5000, 2GB installed, onboard radeon hd 3200, 250gig hd, dvd/rw - built for mom for $200

1,2,3 are retired, everything else is still in use

[Edited on January 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM. Reason : ]

1/13/2009 2:58:04 PM

I don't know the specific models, but the brands I've had are:
1) Compaq Presario desktop, late 1996
2) Twinhead laptop, 1999
3) Dell desktop, 2001 or '02
4) Powerbook G4, 2004-present (just installed Leopard yesterday)

1/13/2009 3:46:55 PM

1. Apple IIgs
2. Apple IIe
3. Leading Edge 386 25Mhz
4. Packard Bell 486 33Mhz (with math-coprocessor)
5. Memorex 486 DX2 (with math-coprocessor)
6. Custom build Pentium 233 w/ 16/32 MB RAM
7. Custom build Athlon 700Mhz 512MB RAM
8. Custom build Athlon XP2700+ 1GB RAM
9. Custom build Core2Duo 2.4Ghz 4GB RAM

Among various Toshiba/IBM/DELL laptops.... but the top were the main boxes in use....

1/13/2009 5:29:34 PM

1) Leading Edge 8088 - 40mb hard drive! and dual 5.25 floppies
2) IBM PC 286
3) IBM PC 386 - This was my first "private" computer just for me. Upgraded it to 8mb of memory I believe, and bought a single speed CDROM drive so I could play Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
3a) Apple IIe - Don't count this because I only owned it for a couple of weeks
4) Off brand 486DX/33 - First SVGA monitor, it was 17" and I always thought "this is the biggest monitor I will ever see in my life".
4) Packard Bell Pentium 66mhz? - This computer was a total piece of shit. Bought my first 1x CDR drive for it.
5)NEC Pentium Pro 233mhz - another super super shitty computer.
6) Custom dual 450mhz P2, 1gb ram, raid 0 array with 2 18gb scsi drives (cant remember the controller type). This thing was so beastly, first college computer.
7) Athlon XP 1300+ custom desktop, 1gb ram, 3 or 4 hdd's, heavily oc'd - This was the last computer I used with the 17" monitor from computer #4 (over 10 years later)
8) Toshiba 1.4ghz Celeron laptop
9) EZGo pc (google it, you'll probably land on my website)
10) Athlon XP 2600+ (I believe, one of the last gen of XP chips) custom rig
11)Via C3 700mhz embedded pc, used for a mp3car setup, later for arcade computer.
12) Shuttle SN95G5 SFF computer - A64 3500+, 2gb ram, dual raptors, geforce 6800
13) Acer Aspire laptop - Pentium M mobile, 2gb, 100gb hdd, radeon 64mb video
14)Commodore 64 (yeah I got this one late in the game )
15) HP 9100mz media center desktop
16) Mac Mini Core2Duo 2ghz, 4gb ram
17) Dell precision 380 desktop
18) Dell Optiplex 745
19) Lenovo X61T - 4gb ram, 120gb hdd, 1.67ghz Intel (core2?, maybe just core duo)

1/13/2009 7:56:22 PM

1. Apple IIe
2. Mac LC II
3. Power Mac 5500
4. iMac G3 Special Edition Graphite
5. Dell Demension 8200 P4
6. Dell Inspiron 9300

1/14/2009 4:11:46 PM

Quote :

"4) Packard Bell Pentium 66mhz? - This computer was a total piece of shit. Bought my first 1x CDR drive for it."

ha ha mine lacked a modem, sound card, and a CD drive, I eventually got the Sound Blaster / CD drive combo kit for it and a slick external 14.4 modem.

also I forgot my current potluck monstrosity:

#12. XP-2600+ 333FSB in a Asus A7A266-M, FSB overclocked to 141, multiplier unlocked at 13x, to achieve 87% of processor's rated speed in a board that doesn't even joke about supporting it

[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/14/2009 8:47:14 PM

Quote :

"EZGo pc (google it, you'll probably land on my website)"

dude, i totally remember that thing, that PC was awesome (at the time)

1/15/2009 11:17:31 AM

C= Vic20 (meh)
C=64 (Space Taxi FTW)
Amiga 1000 (preemptive multitasking in 512K RAM FTW)
Amiga 2000 (Stunt Car RAcer FTW)
Amiga 1200 (sweet system)
Packard Bell 486SX (OS2 Warp meh)
1995+ succombed to Windows, built my own PC every 2 years or so (whenever video card got outdated for pwnzor games)

1/15/2009 11:04:01 PM

Quote :

"PC Perspective Folding Frogs Team 734"

You should join us...we could use the help

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=59

1/15/2009 11:06:02 PM