What's your computing history?

[Kaos_Engine]

Acorn Electron - Blew Up when turned on with the joystick expasion card incorrectly attached!
Commodore 64 - Dizzy Games were awesome!
Commodare Amiga 600 - Upgraded with extra RAM and a whole 20mb of hard drive space! Wings running from the hd was awesome, monkey island 2 was a lot more fun without the disk swapping too!
486 DX4 100 - 8mb ram, cant remeber the other specs, running win95
AMD K6-2 500 - Bought some random leftover parts from a mate at uni to upgrade.
AMD Athlon XP 1900 - First major self built system, had 512mb Ram and a GF3 Ti500
AMD Athlon 64 3500 - Current system, Gigabyte 3d1 setup with their odd 2 6600 GT's chips on one card

[pr0p4g4nd4]

I'm a relative PC gaming newbie so it's a short list for me:

AMD Athlon 1ghz Thunderbird
GeForce 4 64mb
1x 512mb DDR333
40gb HDD
15" CRT then 17" CRT
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AMD Athlon 2600+ 2ghz
Radeon 9250 256mb then 6800le
1x 512mb DDR333 then 2x512mb DDR400
40gb HDD then 300gb HDD
17" CRT then 19" WS TFT
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AMD Athlon 3700+
Nvidia 6800le 128mb
4x512mb DDR400
300gb HDD
19" WS TFT then Dual 17" TFTs
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AMD Athlon X2 3800+
Nvidia 6800le 128mb
4x512mb DDR400
300gb HDD then 500gb then 580gb
Dual 17" TFTs

You can tell I'm an AMD Fanboy! I would go Core2 Duo now if I could, of course.

[Postalisback]

Great to see that somebody made a thread about this, so here's my list

Atari ST

Apple Macintosh Elsie (LC) 475

Acorn machines of some sort at Primary School, cant remember model lol

250MHz Pentium, 64mb ram and a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 16mb

450MHz AMD K6-II, 128mb ram, 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 16mb,
later on Geforce 2 MX/400 64mb

Current Machine :-
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53ghz
512mb DDR RAM
[Graphics Cards, (oldest to most recent)]
Geforce 2 MX/400 64mb
Powercolor Radeon 9200LE 128mb
PNY Geforce FX 5700LE 128mb
^v - Both Poor
PNY Geforce FX 5500 128mb
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb [Current]

[SteveC]

Great thread. Looking back I can remember:

a Commodore 64,
ESCOM Pentium-75
Pentium 2-233
Athlon Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz
Athlon XP 2000+
Athlon XP 2500+
Core 2 Duo E6300

and some consoles:

Sega Master System
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

and a curious hybrid of the two:

Sega/Amstrad Mega PC (386sx-25 with a Mega Drive built in, 1MB RAM later upgraded to 4MB, 40MB hard disk later upgraded to 60MB, VGA graphics and a 14 inch monitor)

I remember being amazed at quite how visually impressive Sonic 2 was relative to Commander Keen. And wishing I had a faster computer when I tried to get it to run Doom (I succeeded, but the frame rate was lacking, to say the least). Of course, it had no problem with Monkey Island...

[Gerschwin]

hmmm from memory....

Consoles
Binatone pong thingy - orange one with paddles
Master System
SNES
N64
PS1
GBA
PSP

Home Comps
Commodore Plus/4 (stop that sniggering at the back)

PCs
286
P90 - was my brothers
486 DX - backwards a bit but was mine
P266MMX
Couple of P2 233s or there abouts
Duron 900
Dell C600 P3 800
P4 3gig
Few others as well....

I remember how impressed I was with the SNES and playing Pilot Wings for the first time was pretty great

[pollaxe]

ZX81 (I can remember hand-coding a several pages long listing from a magazine which claimed you could hear sound on it - it took me days - all it did was create a bit of interference on the tv which you could just hear if you ramped it up to full volume)
Commodore 64
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
486 IBM PC
then another few PCs on top. Used an Apple at college but didn't like it...

[DavidM]

There was no need to do those listings...

RAND USR 1 AND 100 AND 1000

would give you a simple 3 part tone from what I recall

[DavidM]

hmmm from memory....

Home Comps
Commodore Plus/4 (stop that sniggering at the back)

In some ways it was better than the C64 - just needed the graphics and sound to be merged with the older C64 (and to lose the terrible onboard business suite )

[pollaxe]

There was no need to do those listings...

RAND USR 1 AND 100 AND 1000

would give you a simple 3 part tone from what I recall

Gah! Twenty years and many grey hairs too late with the tip!!!

I still have my ZX81 in the attic!

[DavidM]

Found that out in my first fortnight of having one

(3D Monster Maze FTW )

[pollaxe]

LOL! That was the first computer game which scared me! A T-Rex with letter Vs for teeth!!! :O (Was that Jeff Minter? I think it was...)

Sorceror's Island was another favourite..

[DavidM]

No - I think Jeff Minter had real teeth.

[pollaxe]

Badum-tish!

[grizac]

Oh dear...

Atari 2600 (does it count?) ~1985
Amstrad 6128 ~1988-1991
Amstrad 1640 (8086 CPU) ~1991-1995
2 year computing holiday(preparing for "A-Levels" basically)
Pentium 200MMX 1997-2001 (studying to become a Computer engineer...)
Athlon 1200 2001-now (best value ever)
Pentium 4 2400MHz 2002-now
Athlon XP 2200+ 2002-now

[philipbain]

My computer / console history is as follows, please note that I still have all these unless stated:

Commodore 64 (1989)
486 SX-25, 8MB RAM, 250MB HD (1991)
Sega Master System (1992)
Sega Megadrive (1994)
Commodore Amiga 1200 (1996 - 1999)
Sega Saturn (1996)
Sony Playstation (1998)
Sega Dreamcast (2000)
Intel Celeron 266 @ 448, 128MB PC-100, 8.3GB HD, RivaTNT 16MB (1998 - 2000)
Intel Celeron 466 in the above system (early 2000 - mid 2000)
Intel P3 500 Coppermine @ 667, 256MB PC-133, 20GB HD, GeForce DDR (2000 - 2003)
Microsoft Xbox (2003)
Intel Celeron 1400 Tualtin, 512MB PC-133, 60GB HD, GeForce 5200FX (2003 - 2005)
AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6GHz @ 2GHz, 512MB PC-3200, 320GB HD, ATi Radeon AIW 9800SE @ 9800 Pro (soft mod) (2005 - 2006)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.83GHz @ 2.1GHz (mobo limit), 1GB PC-5300, 520GB HD, GeForce 7950GT (2006)

[Mblaster]

A little younger than most of you Here's mine:

486DX, 4MB RAM, 500MB HDD (parents PC)
PII 233MMX, 256MB RAM, Nvidia RivaTNT (parents PC)
PIII 550@730mhz 512MB PC133 RAM, Nvidia RivaTNT, 20gb HDD
Athlon 1700 1.43ghz@2.2ghz, 512MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4200, 80GB HDD
Athlon64 3500, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6800GT, 80 + 250 GB HDD (current PC)