Progression of your home computer ofer the years....

[masteraa]

Can you remember all of the stats of your old computers? And have you ever looked at them all on one page.....
Go back as far as you can in your memory.

Here I go:

I had 3 or 4 computers before this one but this is the first one I can remember.

Year purchased: 1996
Type/Brand: fijutsu laptop
Cpu: 90 mhz intel
Memory: 16 mb
Hard drive: 700 mb
Video card: ?
Initial Cost: $900

Year purchased: 1999
Type/Brand: emachines desktop
Cpu: 400 mhz intel celoron
Memory: 32 mb (upgraded to 190ish in 2000)
Hard drive: 700 mb
Video card: intigrated nvidia geforce 2 with 4 mb video ram
Initial Cost: $450

Year purchased: 2003
Type/Brand: Hp desktop
Cpu: 2.4 ghz amd
Memory: 512 mb (upgraded to 1gb in 2004)
Hard drive: 700 mb
Video card: nvdia geforce 4 64 mb (upbraded to nvdia geforce 5500 256 mb in 2004)
Initial Cost: $790

Year purchased: 2005
Type/Brand: Homemade desktop
Cpu: 2ghx amd duel core
Memory: 2gb (upgraded to 2.5 gb in 2007)
Hard drive: 250gb (upgraded to 750 gb in 2007)
Video card: nvdia geforce 7600 256 mb (upgraded to 2 in sli mode in 2006)
Initial Cost: $1300

[Wizet]

1. You copied it down on a piece of paper. Or
2. You have an amazing memory and loves computers.

[Smith6612]

Well let's see here: (Wizet, yes I remembered all of this and I like computers)

??? to ??? $0 since system is blown up
One of the original Macs for home use. Had a black and white screen. Died due to Lightning Strike

???: Hand Built Intel 486 machine (out of service but still runs and boots) $50 value today
Windows 98 Second Edition
1GB Hard Drive, 256MB hard drive on slave, both Maxtors
16MB of RAM
8X CD Drive
3 1/2 Floppy Drive
5 1/4 Floppy Drive
4MB CyrixInstead Video card
Soundblaster Sound card
v.42 dial-up modem (can only transfer 400 bytes of data now, it's dying).

Winter of 1998-2003: Dell Dimenion XPS R450 (system died because of a brown out) $0 since system is blown up
450MHz Pentium II Processor with MX technology.
128MB of RAM 100MHz
16GB Maxtor HDD
56k Modem
STB Velocity 4400 16MB with nVidia RIVA Chipset
Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card
Windows 98
Iomega ZIP100
CD/DVD drive

Winter of 1998: GameBoy Color (blown up )

Summer of 2001: DISH Network PRV Recorder 80 hours, two DP-311 Receivers as well. Got these after canceling Adelphia Cable

Spring of 2003: Hand Built PC using the case of my old Dell XPS $150 current retail today
2.4GHz Celeron CPU @800MHz
256MB of RAM at 600MHz
80GB 7200RPM P-ATA Maxtor Drive
MSI 848P NEO Motherboard (Pentium 4 w/ HyperThreading Ready)
Realtek AC'97 Integrated Audio
Realtek Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
nVidia GeForce 4MX AGP 8X with 64MB of RAM.
V.92 Dial-up Modem
Windows 2000 Professional
ZIP100 Drive
3 1/2 Floppy

Winter of 2004: Sony PlayStation 2 with Network Adapter with HDD Support

Winter of 2004: GameBoy Advance (Blown up )

Winter of 2005: Westell 6100 Modem for Verizon DSL Service $0 since Verizon paid for it, modem is worth $20 retail

Mid-2005: Linksys WRT54GX (been modified) $130 is retail for it right now

Summer of 2005: Hand-me-down Dell Inspiron 3800GT laptop $50 current value
ESS Maestro Sound Card
ATi RAGE Mobility M1 8MB video card
10GB Maxtor HDD
192MB of RAM (reduced to 128MB due to a bad RAM slot BSOD'ing Windows, have to repair the slot now ).
Windows 2000 Professional
Netgear 108Mbps Super G PCMCIA Wireless card Type ACD/DVD Drive (was replaced since when I got it, the drive was defective)

Winter of 2006: Hand-me-down PC from 1998 from a family relative $50 current value
AMD K6 CPU
128MB of RAM (upgraded to 192MB of RAM)
16GB Maxtor HDD (this drive unfortunately was fried, I had to put in the old hard drive from my dead Dell XPS and it still runs!). Added a new 100GB 7200RPM Hard drive to this for Fedora and media
RIVA 128/128ZX 8MB video card
SoundBlaster sound card
V.92 Dial-up Modem (replaced by two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports)
Windows 98 Second Edition replaced by Fedora Core 9 (system is my home router, web server, and media server)
3 1/2 Floppy Drive
CD Drive
CD-R/RW Drive

Winter of 2006: Sony PSP

2008: Dell Inspiron Laptop $700 current value
AMD Turion (?) 64-bit Dual core CPU
1GB of RAM
120GB HDD
128MB ATi Video Card
Internal 10/100/1000 Ethernet slot and a/b/g 802.11 Wireless card
SigmaTel Audio
Windows XP Professional 64-bit
CD-RW/DVD drive

2008: Hand-Me-Down Dell Dimension 3000 PC $150 current value
1.8GHz Celeron CPU
256MB 333Mhz RAM
30GB Maxtor HDD
Intel Extreme Graphics Accellerator On-board 64MB video. No pixel shading
AC'97 Audio
10/100 Ethernet, Netgeat 108Mbps PCI Wireless card
CD-RW Drive
3 1/2 Floppy Drive
ZIP100 Drive

2008: DISH Network HD-DVR ViP-655

2008: Hand me down PC- never used: Worth $200
AMD Sempron 2.0GHz CPU 512K L2 cache
120GB Seagate HDD
256MB of RAM
Custom Case with Acrylic Front
400 Watt PSU
nVidia GeForce 4MX 64MB (same as my Celeron box!)
Realtek AC'97 Audio
MSI motherboard
DVD reader
CD-R Drive

2008: Custom Gaming Computer built by me $3,500 total value right now
nForce 790i Motherboard
3x1TB Western Digital SATA II Hard drives at 10,000RPM. 32MB cache
3GB HyperX Kingston DDR2 RAM 1625Mhz clock
Acrylic Case (Customized with a few modifications of my own including a full set of LED lighting and 6 fans, 2 250mm fans, 4 120mm fans).
Windows Vista Home Premium
nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB of RAM- x3 in three way SLi. (soon this winter to become GTX 280's)
1200 Watt PSU
10/100/1000 On-board Ethernet
On-board 7.1 Audio with Optical and Coaxial connectors
Intel Q9450 Quad Core CPU at 2.66GHz, 1333Mhz FSB 12MB L2 cache 45 nm.
Two 30 Inch Dell LCD Monitors running DVI (Dell makes some really nice screens, which is why I picked them).
CD/DVD R/RW Drive S-ATA hookup.




I hope I didn't miss anything :cool: Some of the stuff are not PCs, but I'm sure you get the idea.

[alexandgruntz]

First PC: some Windows 95 piece of junk (in 2005-odd). Then the PSU died, so I got another piece of junk.

Birthday 2006: My parents handed me the receipt for the following PC:

Dell Dimension 1100
Windows XP Home Edition
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
512MB DDR RAM (now 768MB)
160GB IDE HDD
DVD reader (later replaced with a DVD burner because the old one packed up) (now a CD-RW drive + original DVD drive - still reads DVDs)
Integrated graphics
19" monitor
Speakers, keyboard and mouse (a ball one)

It had four mice before I replaced it, and two keyboards.

Sometime last year IIRC, I got an old Acer laptop:
Windows 98
Celeron CPU IIRC
64MB RAM
5GB HDD
CD reader

I then aquired an IBM Thinkpad 600:
Windows 98
Celeron CPU
96MB RAM
4GB HDD (I put the 5GB one from Acer laptop in it)
CD reader
About 30min battery life

Purchased May this year in Japan:
Custom-built PC
Windows Vista Home Premium
Core 2 Duo E4600 @ 2.4GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
250GB SATAII HDD
The same DVD burner from the last system (IDE)
ATi 3450HD graphics card (DirectX 10.1 )
Same monitor
Wireless keyboard (from old PC); Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (from old PC)

I still use my Dell, but not often.