Hardware History -Beat This

DynaOne · Mar 30, 2001

1. Sinclair
2. Commodore Vic20
3. IBM PC Jr (overclocked Ha!)
4. IBM Mod 50 286 (10Mhz), 2 meg
5. Gateway 486 (33mhz), 8 meg
6. Gateway Pentium 100 (upgraded to 166), 32 meg
7. Micron PII 400, 384 Meg
8. PIII 800, 1 Gig
This is never enough power

DynaOne · Mar 30, 2001

Thats what I thought...

Another note - with each generation, the potential to produce valuable output scaled with the power ..... as did the potential to waste valuable time playing around ..........
DO

cableguy · Mar 30, 2001

Brief Histroy...

Pong- Yes my family had one!

Atari 800- Had a tape drive and cartriges for media. When I finally got a 5.25 floppy disk for it, I was in heaven. The height of gaming with Scott Adams text based Adventure, Miner 2049er, Pole Position, and Frogger.

Crapple IIc- Not much to say about this.

386SX 20MHz- 1MB RAM, 20MB HD - I remember wanting an SVGA monitor because the 2D graphics were so good, but having to settle for cheap VGA.

Pentium 90- 8MB RAM, 500MB HD - S3 Virge, my first 3D decelerator!

Celeron 450A- 64MB RAM, 6GB HD, Nvidia TNT - Everybody's favorite cheapo system.

PIII 933- 384MB RAM, 40GB HD GeForce2 GTS - Livin Large!

rickn · Mar 30, 2001

I started with Osborne 1 around 1981/82

Vic 20

Commodore 64

Amiga 500

286

386sx

Amiga 1200

486sx/DX, AMD 5x86 133mhz

Multiple pentiums, currently a coppermine

I had friends with Atari 800XL IBM PC and IBM PCjr

Oh yeah, and ColecoVision (that thing rocked)

rover825lover · Mar 30, 2001

1. pong
2. sinclair zx 81 (1kb memory)
3. svi 8086
4. sony hit-bit (second hand)
5. amiga 500
6. amiga 1200
7. amd k5 166
8. amd k6 233
9. intel pentium II 400
10. amd atlon classic 650
11. amd thunderbird 700 > my current rig
Oh.. and in between i bought a powermac for my studio

marco

Whizzy · Mar 30, 2001

Erhm... let's see :

1. XT 8088 6Mhz 20Mb HD and 640Kb ram
2. AT 80286 12Mhz
3. upgraded to 80286 20Mhz !! Woohoo!
4. 486DX2-80Mhz
5. 486DX3- 133 ( @ 150Mhz!!)
6. PII - 233 @ 266 or something
7. PII - 333 @ 375
8. Athlon 550
9. Athlon 700
10. Duron 700 @ 966..

And tens of thousands of small upgrades on video, harddisk monitors in between.. Gee !! This is costing me a fortune !!

ElFenix · Mar 30, 2001

lets see... can i count my NES and SNES? and my 1989 gameboy?

mac se 68000 (some low single digit MHz or something)
mac 2 68020 (the only 020 every used, were not many of these machines)
mac 2 si 68030 (decent processor, between 386 and 486)
dell pentium 90 latitude
dell p200 mmx
dell pro 200 @ 233
dell p3 450
p2 400
dell p3 700

maybe next week
athlon 1.33

esung · Mar 30, 2001

1. MPF-II (Acer's first attempt at personal computer, based on 6502, but not compatible with Apple)
2. Apple II+ (with extra 16K RAM)
3. 80286-10Mhz with EGA and 1MB RAM
4. 80386-33 with Cyrix 387-33 8MB RAM
5. 80486DX-50 8MB RAM
6. Pentium 100Mhz 32MB RAM
7. Pentium 166Mhz 128MB RAM
8. Celeron 366Mhz 384MB RAM
9. Celeron 466Mhz 384MB RAM
10.K7-600 Classic 512MB RAM

IaPuP · Mar 30, 2001

Did somebody say Osborne 1??

My friend has the FIRST Osborne 1 (serial #00000001).

Kewl, huh??

Eric

Seyba · Mar 30, 2001

<< Did somebody say Osborne 1??

My friend has the FIRST Osborne 1 (serial #00000001).
>>

yeah!? well I have serial #00000000! so nyah!

IaPuP · Mar 30, 2001

lol

nya is right

you ever used one??

CP/M

oooo yeah... that's a REAL OS. *smile*

Eric

Gstanfor · Mar 30, 2001

Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
AMD 5x86 133 - got burned on this - preassembled system, m/board had the notorious fake cache.
AMD K5 133 - Learned how to build PC's for myself after prior experience.
AMD K6 200
AMD K6-2 350
AMD K6-3 450
AMD Duron 600
AMD Thunderbird 1.2 gig

Greg

peemo · Mar 30, 2001

First computer I ever used was an 8086 with a built in orange screen about 4x6". I worked in a bank and they were very slow to upgrade. Then 286, 386, 486, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro (at home), PIIIE + BX (at home), PIIIEB + 815. Never tried an AMD.

TravisBickle · Mar 30, 2001

thank god the days of membrane keyboards are over (outside of chemistry labs)
I have to laugh at Sinclair keyboards... first a flat membrane...then graduated to the "dead flesh" rubber keys...then the ultimate squidgy hard plastic flat keys on dead rubber. the QL/whatever must cost over $500 in 85, didn't it deserve a real keyboard for chrissakes???

erub · Mar 30, 2001

Dell 386 25 MHz - 2 megs of RAM & 80 megs HDD
Upgraded to 4 megs of RAM from 2!
Zenith 486 Laptop with Black & White screen!

Can you believe that those 2 lasted me until Feb. 1997? Laptop was outdated technology by about a year when I got it for $1000 in sept. 94, and I got the 386 in late 1990...My parents must have deprived me

Dell Pentium 200 MMX
Athlon 650

loosbrew · Mar 30, 2001

i still have an IBM XT in the basement. only has 640k and one 5.25 Floppy Drive.
alos i still have my commodore 64/128 combo dealy. i remember programming the thing in basic to make sounds and squiggly lines a stuff.
since then i went up to a k6-2 400 and now my tbird 900

loosbrew

Spearfodder · Mar 30, 2001

Hm...

TI 99/4a
Apple 2e
Apple 2gs
Amiga 500
486/66 (that one lasted a long time (too broke to upgrade)
cyrix 586-120 (came defective, lasted 1 week)
cyrix 686-120
cyrix 686-166 (didn't learn my lesson the first time, cyrix sucks)
k6-200
k6/2-300
k6/3-400 (great system)
P2-400 (don't know why, hadn't built a slot 1 board yet, expected to only keep it a few months, ended up having it nearly 2 years
duron 650@850. (on a abit kt7 raid, best moboard I've ever owned)

Next: Dually tbirds/palaminos...

rover825lover · Mar 30, 2001

i thought the QL had a keyboard? Only the zx81 and the zx spectrum came with the keyboards you
mentioned. I haven't seen a QL in real life though, waaaaay expensive back then .

GeneW · Mar 30, 2001

Kaypro I
486-DX33
486-DX80
5X86-100
6X86-PR150+
6X86-PR200+
P233MMX X2
C366@550 X2
P3700@1001 X2
Also tinkered with many From 8086-386
Had fun with a 286-12
2.5 MB Ram-CD-CGA-SB Pro-Hardcard
Til it just gave up and displayed what looked like
scrolling code and never started again

CrackRabbit · Mar 30, 2001

1. Kaypro PCXT
2. Packard Hell 486SX-33 4mb ram that i later tripped out to a DX4-100 32mb
3. K6-166 with a voodoo rush card
4. Celery 400 with the last V770 Ultra in the store
5. Dell P3-600 laptop
and im planning on building an Athlon system next month

bluemax · Mar 30, 2001

TI99 4/a (fun ol' machine!)
Tandy 1000EX (on loan from Radio Shack until they got in...)
Tandy 1000SX (50% faster than the XT, better sound, 16 colour graphics - I was the envy of all my friends! )
IPC 386DX-25 4MB, 40MB HD. $expensive$. Crappy computer too... IPC sucks!!

TI99 4/A disk drive and expansion chassis - what a find over 10 years later!

Upgraded that IPC 386 to:
386DX-40
486DX2-66
486DX4-120
(Grabbed an Amiga 500 in here)
Cyrix 6x86 P120+
AMD K6-200
finally dumped the whole system and started anew with:
P2-266, BX6 -- then upgraded all over again...
Celeron 266 @ 400
Celeron 300A @ 450 which lasted me more than 2 years.... I JUST SOLD IT LAST NIGHT! :Q

What do I have now? A burning wallet and desire....
And an empty case...

EpsiIon · Mar 30, 2001

lol

Pentium 233 MMX
...
...

Uh... shut up.

Sunner · Mar 30, 2001

ElFenix, actually the 020 was used in some SE's,, dont remember the model name anymore, before the SE30's.

DynaOne · Mar 30, 2001

OK - I'm been beaten by a few - my only consolation is that some have spent more over the years than me. Thank you - the PC industry thanks you - now please - go buy another, we're in a downturn.
DynaOne

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