Neil Smalley

Mine is thus

• 1982 ZX81 with 16K rampack(perched on a book to stop it wobbling and crashing)
• 1983 48K spectrum, with interface 1 and 2. Microdrives and Mirage instant replay thing.
• 1985 128K Speccy, migrated bits from above.
• 1988 Atari 512 ST
• 1990 Atari STe, with borrowed 20Mg harddrive(big as 2 yellow pages directories) and 1024K memory
• 1992 DX2 66 PC with 4Mb, memory 120Mb Hard Disk
• 1994 Pentium 90 with 64Mb memory, 1 GIG hard disk
• 1998 P2 400 20Gb HD, 128Mb Memory and SLI'd voodoo 2's
• 2000 Athlon 1.33, 512Mb, 120Gb HD, Gforce 3
• 2003 P4 3ghz, 1Gb Memory, 240GB RAID HD, 9800 Pro
• 2004 FX55, 1Gb mem, 240 GB RAID, X800 Pe

Mapped out like that we've come a long way in a short time.

Iain Young

Can't remember the dates and specs, but my home machines have been...

Dragon 32
BBC Micro (A)
Atari 512 ST
Atari 1024 STE
Dan Technology 36DX 32Mb with added maths co-processor

Then various home built machines

• 486DX
• Pentium 90
• Pentium II
• Pentium III (700Mz)
• Toshiba Pentium II laptop with the first GeForce Go chipset

Current weapons of choice ...

Desktop P4 2.5ghz, 1gig ram, X800XTPE, 2x 250gig drives, video capture / editing hardware, Audigy 2 plat ex, etc...

Alienware Area 51-M laptop (3.2Ghz P4, 1gig ram, 9600 gfx etc)

Barmyclown

I also Can`t remember dates but here goes.

ZX81

48K Sinclair Spectrum

Commadore Amiga A500 with 512K Ram Expansion.

Commadore Amiga A1200 With 40mhz 68030 and maths Co Procoessor 4Mb Memory and processor expansion. ( About 10 - 15 X faster than standard )

486 DX pc, Not a lot of Ram.

233mhz pentium II PC with 32meg of ram.

Sony Playstation ( didn`t everyone have one )

Amd K6II 300Mhz, 128MB ram, Awe 64gold Audio, Vodoo II graphics Card.

Sony Playstation2 ( Just to play Gran tourismo3,4(when it`s out),Colin Mcrea Rally )

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1100Mhz, 256 MB Ram, SB LIve, Geforce 2GTS Graphics Card.

Alienware Area 51-M, Laptop. 3.2ghz Desktop Pentium 4 Processor. 1GB ram, Radeon 9600 Mobile graphics w 128MB ram.

Hewlett Packard ipaq hx4700.


Can`t beleive i`ve had that many computers since the early 80`s OMG.

The last 4 are my currently still in use machines.

_Meridian_

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I didn't actually own a computer of my own until 1993 when I got an old 286/16 as part of my redundancy. But before that I did do work on company BBC Bs (one of my colleagues wrote the OS for them) and early PC ATs, 286 and 386s.

I was a slow starter after that as well - I didn't get up to a 486/100 until 1998. That was the last computer I ever owned that was built by anyone else though. In 1999 I upgraded that machine to an IDT WinChip (anyone remember them - like Cyrix but less performance...) 240, then to an AMD K6-II 333 - my first AMD chip, and with one exception I've been AMD ever since.

In April 2000 I built a new machine based around a Slot A Athlon 700 (sadly with a 700 core) and started my overclocking adventures. In may I changed motherboards. In September I replaced that motherboard with a socket A asus and an 850 Athlon. That in turn was replaced with a 1gig, then a 1.2, then a 1.4 Athlon, while the motherboard was changed for an Abit KT7, then a KT7A.

Since every machine has been a homebuild, and they are constantly changing, the rest will make little sense. I currently have four machines: an XP3200+ at 2500MHz, a 2500+ at 2400MHz, a 2700+ at 2350MHz and a P4 1.6A at 2400MHz. As well as them, plus what I've mentioned above, I've overclocked a Duron 600 (to 1018MHz!), an XP1700, an XP2200 and an XP2700, on at least twelve different motherboards. Add in at least eight different gfx cards as well, not to mention assorted other kit.

Money spent on the scoob has kinda put a dampener on computer kit for the forseeable future though...


M

boxst

Hello

Similiar to yours actually:

ZX81
Commodore Vic-20
Atari 400/800/130XE
Commodore 64
Apple IIe
Atari ST
Amiga
Macintosh
And then lots of PC's

We could then list all the game consoles:

Grandstand Multi-play thing
Atari 2600
NES
Sega Megadrive (and CD)
Gameboy
Nintendo 64
Sega Saturn
Dreamcast
Playstation
Playstation 2
X-Box

Steve.

Pedro_79

Not entirely sure about dates, but I've had these over the years :-

1987 (?) - Amstrad CPC 6128 (The one with the 3" disk drive )

1990 - Amstrad PC2086 (With awesome 8Mhz 8086, and monstrous 30Meg HD!)

1994 (?) - Hewlett Packard 486SX-25 (Overclocked to 33Mhz )

1996 - Homemade Pentium 90Mhz (The first PC I built - I was well impressed!)

1999 - Olivetti Laptop Pentium 2 266Mhz (Was a mistake buying this just as Olivetti went under)

2001 - Homemade AMD Athlon 900Mhz (The first one with a proper 3D graphics card)

2003 to Present - Homemade Intel P3 2.4Ghz (Probably could do with an upgrade)


Oh, and about 8 or 9 different games consoles, including the fabled 64-bit Atari Jaguar (Which was actually rather pants!)

And I still maintain that the Sega Saturn was the best games concole ever built!

Iain Young

Hmmm, ok....

Acetronic
Atari 2600
Sega megadrive (with Mega CD)
NES
SNES
Atari Lynx
Sega Game gear
Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advanced
Gameboy SP
Sega Saturn
DreamCast
Playstation
PS2
Gamecube
Xbox

Got a psp pre-ordered

(and I wonder why I'm always broke )

i8gtmf

Sounds Familar

1982 ZX-81 ended up nailed to my bedroom door
1983 C64 and loads of games for the old tape deck
1986 sold the lot and started work
1989 Atari 800xl+disc drive bought it off my mate for a bit of nostalgia still have it and it still works.
2000 486 out of our works office running windows 3.1
2001 Pentium mmx 2.5g hd 128mb, 32mb graphics got me on the internet for the first time.
2002 Amd 2100xp,512ddr,80g hd,Radeon 8500 later upgraded to 9700pro,Soundblaster Audigy pro 5.1,17" tft,52xcd-r, 16x dvd-r+-
2004 Gateway celeron M1.5ghz, 40g hd, 512mg ddr, Wifi, bluetooth, cdrw dvdrw helps save space around the house

Figment

No one's mentioned OPDs yet


Can't remember dates, but I've had

1980 ish
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair spectrum
BBC-B
ICL DRS8801
Early PC (CCP/M OS)
286/16 with a mahooosive 10MB hard drive and 640K memory!
286/33
286/66 with an incredible 100MB hard drive
Mono OPD with microdrives
Colour OPD with microdrives
Various 386's
486/25 with 64meg RAM
gradually worked my way through Pentium, AMD K5, K6 Pentium II, III, 4
and now got a G4 iMac 1.25Ghz Power PC/20" flat panel/Superdrive, a much modded DELL 8100 (P4/2.8Gig, 768Meg RAM, 2 x 160gig HDs, Radeon 9600XT (256meg) graphics 17" TFT), a Sony Vaio laptop, Palm Tungsten T3, Smart phone

Never had a games console though, so I haven't lived (apparently)

JohnnyRob

Short and sweet, really

ZX Spectrum
Commadore 64 (couldn't afford the BBC)
P90 intel jobbie (very basic)
Celeron 500
Celeron 850 (progressive build on the 500)
AMD 1700+ (2.2ghz, 100gb hd, Ati 9550, A7V8X)

beemerboy

in order from circa 1980
atari 600xl & 5 1/4" floppy drive
commodore vic 20 upgraded with 16k expansion and £40 tape deck !!
apple 2 europlus (2nd hand)
bbc model b with watford dfs and drive.
amiga 500 with trapdoor ram and 2nd floppy drive
486 33mhz 4mb
upgraded to dx2 66, and 16mb ram (wow!!) oh and cd rom drive !!!!
hp vectra 266mhz i think, in loft!!
special reserve pIII 500 (still have this in my office) games machine with voodoo 3 16mb card at the time
2 x compaq small form factor pIII600 /128/10gb
latest is an athalon 2800xp 512mb / 2 x 120 gb / etc.....
dual layer dvd, cdrom/combo, blah blah blah....

wow, quite a few quid over the years....

dont get me onto consoles...

fave being the chipped up xbox!!!!!!!!!!!

happy new year

BB

fast bloke

Fig - did you have to leave the zx 80 on to warm up for 20 minutes?

First one was a big black warm up box (might have been a z80?? )
Then zx80
zx81
C64
Amstrad maybe???
BBC B
BBC Master
Some sort of Dec machine which was sh1thot - 256 colours, a meg of memory and 100 Meg Hdd
Mac (eek - last one ever)
286 sx16
every fekin generation of x86 since

every games console since 1981........ (got my name and piccie in Atari World as first person to score more than 10 million in Asteroids..... took me about 38 hours iirc..... I was really happy when they introduced pause to the games )

molko

Sinclair ZX80 (in kit form, had to build it with my dad)
ZX81
ZX Spectrum 48
BBC Model B (Master)
Commodore Amiga A500
Commodore Amiga 1200
PC DX33 (i think)
PC PIII 450


Then just PC's which i upgrade ever so often

The Amiga A500 and the Speccy 48k were the best in terms of enjoyment....brillaint fun. Just wish i still had them now !!!!!

AndyC_772

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(borrowed) CBM 4032
ZX80 (I still have this - and it still works!)
Spectrum 48K (later upgraded to Spectrum Plus with the £20 official upgrade kit!)
BBC B
Acorn A3000
Acorn A5000 (with a massive 1.2GB hard disc - 5.25" full height SCSI, housed in a separate PC case!)
PC (Celeron 333, Matrox G200, which over the years has gradually evolved into my current desktop machine - P4 1.7GHz, 240Gb hd, 512M RAM, Matrox G400)
Laptop (2.0GHz mobile P4, Radeon Mobility 9000, 768M RAM, 1600x1200 LCD )

In moments of nostalgia I've also bought a Spectrum 128K off ebay (and sold it again a few weeks later) and a BBC Master 128 to play all my old BBC games on). My Playstation sits idle in the hi-fi rack and I sold my Playstation 2 when I got bored of GT3 (which didn't take long either).

angrynorth

ZX 48
Some BBC thing
Amiga 1200
486
P3 500
P3 650 laptop
1.8 intel thing
2.4 intel thing
Then I woke up
Dual 867Mhz G4
Currently using a dual screened, dual processor 1.8 G5 which runs OSX Panther along with VPC incarnations of Win 98, XP Pro and 2000 for testing.

ALi-B

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Cant think of the years but:

Commodor C16 +4
Commodor C64
Commodor Amiga 500+
Acorn Archemedis
Amstrad PC1512 with hard drive card
IBM PS/2 386
Olympia 486sx 25MHz
No name 486DX2 66MHz
Nexgen RISC NX586 P90
Pentium II 333MHz
Pentum III 1GHz (yup...still using it )

Not including consoles (they aren't "REAL" computers ) or work computers/laptops.

Not to mention I used to administer Acorn "Nexus" and BBC "Econet" networks

druddle

Am i the only one sad enough to have a SPARC pizza box running Solaris 8 ?

Dave

stevencotton

No, I have three of those here

what would scooby do

ZX Spectrum
Dragon 32
Amiga
Cray XMP
Apple IIe's at college

various Amstrad tat

(I may have lied about the cray xmp ) LOL

AndyC_772

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'Econet' - the only network in which everyone's password was broadcast in cleartext across the whole network when they logged on

dsmith

Not sure on Dates but

Circa early '80s ? Parent's Apple IIe
My first computer was a mid/late '80s BBC Model B - intially tape then disk (!)

About '91ish - 1st proper PC was a 386 SX 25 with 2 (count 'em) Mb Ram 20Mb Hard drive (MFM and took 2 x 5.25" Drive Bays)

1st job after Uni was PC support at a smalll company, I built all the PCs and used to be able to get VAT free PC bits in lieu of O/T - so mine metamorphised fairly regulary for a while.

I think I went through...

486SX33
486DX266
486DX4100
Pentium 100
CPU/Motherboards with a variety of Graphics / Disks / Ram etc. - all in the same case.

Then left to work for a company that didnt have such a flexible parts sharing approach

Stagnated with a P2-200 Dell for several years then....

Athlon 1Ghz / Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS
Now a P4 3.2 (running @ 3.5) / 6800 GT.

I still have my original PC case with P100 in a cuupboard. - it did sterling service as an IPCop for a while and still runs Win98 or Linux just fine - With 128Mb Ram from a Cisco router!. Original List price of that ram would have bought a truck load of PCs.

tiggers

Usual ZX 81/Spectrum stuff up through Atari's on to early PC's then everything homemade from then on. Still got the following running between home and two offices:

P1 233 MMX , 64MB RAM, 20GB HDD
P1 233 MMX , 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD
P1 233 MMX , 128MB RAM, 40GB HDD
P2 350 245MB RAM 40GB HDD
P3 1.1GHz 512MB RAM 120GB HDD
P4 2.4 GHz 512MB RAM 160GB HDD
Dual P3 Server 1 GB RAM 2 x 160GB HDD
Dell Latitude 6500 P3 Laptop
Dell Inspiron 4000 P3 Laptop
Dell Inspiron m510 Laptop
DEC VAX 3100-90 running good old VMS - too attached to switch it off

and the weird one:

P4 3.2 GHz 4GB RAM 2 x 160GB IDE HDD, 3 x 36GB SCSI HDD, 3 ATI graphics cards, 3 monitor set up - just for Photoshop

Apple G5 on the way I think.

tiggers.

Stueyb

The first one I ever got to play with was an apicot XenII . £7000 for the 286 machine, 20 MB RLE HDD, windows "executive" aka windows 2 and a laser printer. There was an external PSU that was huge, but kept your feet warm in winter. Also came with proper ring bound manuals lol.This was in addition to:

Spectrum 64K
Sprectrum +3
Amiga A500 with 512K upgrade
XenII
Packard Bell 486SX with 170 MB HDD and 4 MB RAM LOL
Pentium 90 with 2 GB HDD and 64 MB (When ram was REAL expensive, like £90 for 4 MB)
Pentium 233 with 1x SCSI CD Writer
Celeron 400
Athlon 1 GHz with ~780 RAM and 2* 80 GB HDD
Dell 2.8GHz 1 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA, DVD Writer, CD Writer and 19" TFT

phelpsa

1992-2002 (round abouts) - 300mhz Dell (of some sort)
2002-present - Fujitsu Siemens 2.6ghz Laptop
September-Present - Acer Travelmate 372TMi, Intel Centrino, 1.5 ghz, 512mb ddr sdram 60GB drive.

I don't understand what most of that means??

Adam

Echo

This is my small list

Starting with the palm tops I can remember:

Tandy 1k around 1985
Psion 1987
Psion 3
Psion 3a
Psion 5
Sharp Zaurus
Sharp Zaurus colour
Casiopia
Palm Tungsten
Sony Clie

Laptops (newest first):

Apple Powerbook G4 1.33 with over a terabyte storage via raids etc
Apple Powerbook G4 667
Apple Powerbook G3
Toshiba thingys
Librex 386
Olivetti Quaderno 8086
Amstrad portable

Desktops (newest first):

Evesham PIII 800Mhz (don't know why I still keep it) upgraded from 400Mhz
Fujitsu PII 200Mhz
IBM 386
Atari ST 500
BBC

First on-line via CIX in 1988'ish!

With 2 new kids the gadget days are over

Mike

Spenny_B

Ah blimey...MEMORIES!!....Think my parents have still got my part-work collections of "Input" and "Home Computing" in their loft!!

Similar to most...

Spectrum 48k...with Opus 3.5" FDD and interfaces (when 3.5" FDD was bleeding-edge and added a Cheetah speech synthesis interface...very Stephen Hawkings!!...and my first mouse! jeez, loved that Speccy!!

Atari ST-FM512....Out Run looked Sooooo cool back then versus Speccy port....had another FDD (external)

Commodore Amiga A500 with 512MB upgrade....never got on too well with it, tbh...didnt like the OS, then got into music, girls and cars...promptly sold Amiga!

(gadget wilderness happened here...now had good CD collection and a Westfield project and unhealthy habit of spending all night in garage!)

Joined IBM and thought i tmay be a good idea to buy a PC!

IBM NotePad (Palm rebadge)
Thinkpad 600e
NetVista 1GHz Athlon ...still in use now...(it may soon become a SuSE based file/print server)
Thinkpad T31
Thinkpad T42 (hmmmm, new toy)

HP (boo-hiss) iPaq 2210 with 1GB CF card running TomTom3/MP3 player

....thinking about doing a custom PC build...ooops, make that "wedding to pay for"...

Happy days...Spen

J4CKO

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Had all the 8 and 16 bit micros, however I have had the same pc since 1990, its a bit like Triggers broom though, I think its the same (broken) floppy drive though.

super_si

1) 1998 P100 24mb ram lol
2) 2000 P3 833Mhz 128mb ram
3) 2002 P3 1000Mhz 256MB ram
4) 2002 P4 1.8Ghz 512mb ram
5) 2002 P4 2.8@3.6Ghz 512mb ram
6) 2003 P43.06@3.8Ghz 1024MB ram, 160gb storage
7) 64Bit Athlon Notebook

class_A

Sort of date order, but not much early stuff because I couldn't really afford it when I was a kid:

• Acorn RISC PC 600 (33Mhz ARM 600), never got round to the StrongARM upgrade
• Apple iMac 266MHz
• Apple iBook 300MHz
• Various Compaq DeskPro's (P2 and P3) acquired from various jobs
• ProLiant 1400 dual P2 with RAID card which I again acquired
• Dell Latitude CPx? (the small sub-notebook thing, has a P-MMX 266MHz)
• Apple PowerMac dual G4 867MHz
• IBM ThinkPad T21 800MHz

Here's the consoles:

• Atari 2600
• Sega Megadrive
• PSX
• PS2
• Xbox

And the PDA's

• Palm V
• iPaq 3630
• SE P910

So, still not broken the GHz barrier in my house...

Fuzz

Zx 80 from Grandfather..
Speccy 48k (not the plus )
133mhz prebuilt ex *cough* school pc
Shop bought Hewlett Packard Pavillion from Tempo Running ME

Current one
Home built, Athlon3200+ clocked to 2400Mhz,1GB RAM, Radion 9800 etc,etc.

Consoles
N64
Playstation (original)

Quite spread out.

Andy