What leaps have you made ?

[VCDHunter]

. . . . technology wise ?

I started with a ZX81 (wih rubber keyboard & 16k RAM pack )

then

A Commodore 16

then

An Atari 520 STFM

then

PC #1 Gateway Pentium 120 Mhz 8Mb 1.2Gb HDD 4Mb Matrox

then

PC #2 AMD K6 2 500 Mhz 64Mb 16GB HDD 16 Mb Voodoo 3

then

PC #3 AMD XP 2000+ 512 Mb 80GB HDD GeForce 4

What path did you take to reach the stage you're at now ?

[galactica]

started with Mac SE

then got a LC 16mhz

then a IIVX 32mhz

then a Quadra 650 33mhz

then Powermac 7300 200mhz

then Powermac G3 Blue and White 300mhz

then Powermac G4 450 mhz

then Powermac G4 dual 1.25 Ghz

in addition my powerbook days go as follows

powerbook g3 lombard

powerbook g4 titanium 15"

[g_shocker182]

Standard Machines:

??Mhz GRiD with Win3.1 (dont remember the details)

200Mhz Micron 32Mbs RAM, 2GB HD, Win95

366Mhz EMachines 32Mbs RAM, 3GB HD, Win98

2.0Ghz Dell 256Mbs RAM, 60Gb HD, WinXP

Can you tell where the big jump is?

[mrtristan]

The first computer that I ever used in school was an old Apple, although I don't remember what model. I was in 6th grade and they were the cutting edge of technology. We did simple programming with the logo language.

Our first home computer was a Kaypro. It was an all in one unit, about the size of a mini-tower. A google search will bring up a lot of pages, to see what they look like. The screen was monotone green and it ran DOS something.something.

We had something after that, I don't really remember. It was a desktop from Radioshack, but I could never get it to work. It had 8-bit color, though. That was just incredible.

Then, we had no computer for years. I would just use the ones at school or type my papers the old fashioned way. Yikes!

I think it was in 94, or whatever the year was the girst generation PowerPCs came out. I had one of those 66Mhz speed demons. It was the best.

Then, I inherited the old shop accounting computer in 97, which was a 266Mhz HP Pavillion. I had that for two years.

I had an industrial accident at work, and received a work comp settlement of about $10,000. I saved most of the money at the time, but spent $2,000 on my own home built system. It was a 1.1Ghz T-bird based machine, which I had until a year ago.

My current machine is what I built after that, which is in my computer profile above. I harvested most of the parts from my T-bird machine and added a new hard drive. I'll stick with this for a while, unless I cut off another finger.

[Faustus]

Horrible PackardBell SX 50.
to all self made computers....

AMD 66mhz
AMD DX4 120mhz.
Pentium 90
Pentium 133
Pentium 233mmx
Celeron 300a which I overclocked to 450mhz.
To a Celeron 700mhz.
to a PIII 1ghz.
to a Athlon XP 2200.
I also have an imac 450.

[redwudz]

Let's see...

VIC20 ($500, 8MB 16 colors?, Cassette tape drive, tv for monitor)

Commodore 64 ($400?, 64 colors?, 5 1/4" floppy, RBG monitor, 2400 modem)

Amiga 1000 (HD!, MO 230Meg optical drive, RGB monitor, 11.6K modem)

Amiga 2000 (Same as above)

MAC 7200 (Upgraded MB, SCSI CD burner)

MAC G4 733 (stll use for surfing, email. Programs to expensive)

Homebuilt Celeron 400

Homebuilt AMD Duron 900

Homebuildt AMD 1800xp

Homebuilt AMD 2400xp Barton, 1GB, 60GB boot, 160GB Raid for Video, Cable modem, etc.

Funny thing is, what I paid for my first two computers, as pathetic as they were, is less than I paid for my present system that is about a thousand times faster. I still have most of those old machines, except I sold off the VIC20 and the C64.

[SquirrelDip]

This is almost the same post as the "How old are you?" post...

Here's my list:

Comodore PET (back at high school)
Atari 400
Atari 600
Zenith 148 (XT compatable)
ALR 386SX
ALR 486-33
Clone 486DX4 (100MHz - WOW!)
Clone Pentium 233
Clone Celeron 300 (Abit MoBo, OC's to 450)
Clone AMD 400 (Asus MoBo)
Clone Pentium III 600 (Gigabyte MoBo)
Clone Celeron 900 (Asus MoBo)
Clone Dual Pentium III 866 (Abit MoBo)
Clone AMD 1800XP (ECS MoBo)
Clone Pentium IV 2.4GHz (Asus MoBo, OC'd to 3GHz)

Currently the PIII-600 is my server, 100MBit to the dual PIII-866 and the PIV-2.4. The Celeron 900 on wireless 22MBit upstairs.

[galactica]

MAC G4 733 (stll use for surfing, email. Programs to expensive)
.

only for surfing and email!?!

what programs in particular are too $$

just curious really.

[redwudz]

galactica,

I really like my MAC, but when I upgraded to X, I have to run my older version of Wordperfect in classic mode. I have went to newer versions of Eudora and GraphicConverter and I use these extensivly. I was lured to the dark side (Microsoft) by the necessity to work with their machines at my job. Then when I discovered video, DVD, SVCD and such, the Microsoft machines just had better or more available software. The final straw was when I found an external DVD wouldn't work with my machine. I have spent the last 3 years learning the Microsoft system and it's not that I prefer it, I just need to use it most of the time. I have access to Word, Photoshop, and other highpriced Microsoft format programs through work, but no access to their MAC equivalent.

[galactica]

yea, a LOT of mac users were sort of pissed about that. I remember the days I ran classic all the time because like you none of my word processing, creative apps etc would work!

now I dont even have OS9 on my machine any more.
to each is own. It's good to hear that you still use it and didn't abandon it totally.

I also have a PC and use it often (more so now since my wife is always on the mac! RAH! guess ill have to get a G5 for me )

btw, last I looked difference between MS OFFICE XP Standard and MS Office X was only about 10 dollars. But i know what you mean about "access"

[i_am_dave]

Don't remember brand name of first one, but it had an 8080
TRS-80 model 2
Sinclair ZX81
TI 99/4
TI 99/4A
Homemade IBM XP class (4.7 mhz)
HP 500 Mhz Celeron
HP 1.8Ghz P4(my current system)

[rhegedus]

Acorn Electron

Acorn BBC B

Atari ST

Opus PI 90

Self built PI 233

Dell PIII 700

Self built PIV 2.26

[housepig]

Coleco ADAM
IBM 8088-based PC
Packard-Bell 486/25 SX (4mb Ram, 107Mb HD)
Trigem P-166
homebuilt AMD K6/350
homebuilt AMD T-Bird 900 (current desktop)
homebuilt AMD 1700XP (current video box)

plus tons of surplus P-90's - P300's that I've picked up free and sold at computer shows.

next on the block - upgrade the 1700 to a 2600XP.

[Conquest10]

My first computer is the one I'm currently using.