Your computer usage history

[Kornelius]

I though this could be interesting. And I mean everything... even game consoles and such.

Here is mine:

1988 - 1992 - Sinlair Spectrum ZX 48K
1992 - 1995 - NES
1995 - ... - SGI Indy workstasion
1997 - 1999 - PC with 200Mh Pentium pro and 32MB of ram
1999 - 2003 - 466Mhz Celeron with 128MB of ram and a GeForce
2003 - ... - 1,8 Ghz Athlon XP with 512MB of ram and a GeForce4

 

[pgp_protector]

19?? - 19?? Pong System
19?? - 19?? Atari 2600
19?? - 19?? Commodore V20
19?? - 19?? Commodore 64
19?? - 19?? PET
19?? - 19?? IBM PC Jr
19?? - 19?? Commodore Amiga 500
19?? - 19?? Commodore Amiga 2000
19?? - 19?? Commodore Amiga 4000
19?? - 19?? 486
19?? - 19?? 586
19?? - 2000 AMD
20?? - 2003 AMD 2800+XP
2003 - .... AMD 1400+ XP & AMD 1400+ Suse (CPU Fried that's why the downgrade)

 

[Silent Enigma]

Late 80 early 90s > Tandy 1000 TL (w/ the 16 color card that was compatible with almost no software)
90s > Sega Genesis added, then a SNES
2000s > Various game systems, and a Pentium 90
Now > AMD Athlon XP 1.7 GHz, 512 Ram, etc.

 

[Kokopelli]

Mid 80s - Atari2600
Late 80s - Tandy 1000
Early 90s - Nintendo, N64, Gameboy, GameGear
Mid 90s - P75
Late 90s - P2 350/64 mb RAM
Early 2k - P3 866, 128 RAM
2002 - AMD Athlon XP 2600, 512 RAM
2004 - P4 3.0, 800FSB, 512 3200 DDR, 256 ATI Card.... my techno baby.

 

[Wolc]

1989: 286
1990: NES
1995: P75
1997: P2-300
2002: P4-2.5ghz
2004: AMD 2200+ Laptop
Thats bout it...

 

[AlmostBandwidth]

Nes, Tandy Computer, SNES, Sega Genesis, PSX, N64, 2 - 386 computers, 486, Pentium 200, 400mhz Celeron, 1ghz Athlon, 333mhz P2 Laptop, 1.67ghz Athlon, 2.7ghz Celeron, Xbox.

That would cover the equipment I own/have owned to date.

 

[Ryuuko9]

I though this could be interesting. And I mean everything... even game consoles and such.

Here is mine:

1988 - 1992 - Sinlair Spectrum ZX 48K
1992 - 1995 - NES
1995 - ... - SGI Indy workstasion
1997 - 1999 - PC with 200Mh Pentium pro and 32MB of ram
1999 - 2003 - 466Mhz Celeron with 128MB of ram and a GeForce
2003 - ... - 1,8 Ghz Athlon XP with 512MB of ram and a GeForce4

1980s: Tandy 1000 HX
1990: Macintosh Classic II
1994: Macintosh Performa 5200 CD
1999: IBM Aptiva 400 AMD K-6 (I switched)
2000: iMac (Indigo blue) 400 Mhz G3 (came to my senses )
2002: iMac (flat panel) 700 Mhz G4, 384 MB RAM, GeForce2

Game consoles:
1990s: Game Boy (the first kind, which I still have!)
around 2000: Nintendo 64
2002: Game Cube

 

[Stryper]

ibm ps/2

1980s: Tandy 1000 HX
1990: Macintosh Classic II
1994: Macintosh Performa 5200 CD
1999: IBM Aptiva 400 AMD K-6 (I switched)
2000: iMac (Indigo blue) 400 Mhz G3 (came to my senses )
2002: iMac (flat panel) 700 Mhz G4, 384 MB RAM, GeForce2

Game consoles:
1990s: Game Boy (the first kind, which I still have!)
around 2000: Nintendo 64
2002: Game Cube

its nice to see an apple user


lets see. early 90's- ibm ps2. i believe it was a 486 with a 33mhz processor. not sure though
2000- p3 500mhz
2001-celeron 600mhz
2002- pentium4 1.4ghz
2003- pentium 4 2.4ghz
2004- athlon xp 2700+
2004(in a couple months)- powerbook g4 1.33ghz (i willl make the switch!)

 

[Ryuuko9]

ibm ps/2
its nice to see an apple user


lets see. early 90's- ibm ps2. i believe it was a 486 with a 33mhz processor. not sure though
2000- p3 500mhz
2001-celeron 600mhz
2002- pentium4 1.4ghz
2003- pentium 4 2.4ghz
2004- athlon xp 2700+
2004(in a couple months)- powerbook g4 1.33ghz (i willl make the switch!)

Kewl! Are you getting the 15 or 17 inch? I would doubt it if you'd regret getting a PBook. Let me know if you need any help with your switch.

 

[Breetai]

We're counting game consoles?

Consoles
1987-1992 NES
1991-1996 Genesis, SNES, Sega CD, Game Gear
1995-1999 Sega Saturn, Playstation
2000-2003 GameBoy Advance, Playstation 2
I don't really want to bother with consoles any more.

1995-1998
Pentium 75 MHz, 8 MG RAM(later 16), 1 Gig HD
1998-1999
Pentium MMX 233, 64 MG RAM, 2 Gig HD, 4 MG 3DFX
(I moved away from home at this point and bought my own computers)
Celeron 450 MHz, 64 MG RAM(later 384), 13 Gig HD(later 53), TNT 16 MG 3D card(later GeForce2 64 MG)
Notebook Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 512 MG RAM, 40 Gig HD, 128 MG ATI Radeon 9000 3D card, 15.4" widescreen(which I just broke)

 

[NerdySurfer/rick]

ok. so here we go. oh the memorys already........
an ancient hp desktop, windows 95. but i was only in fith our foruth grade, and thats when i learned to love good ole windows.

then a win 98 machine, was cool , and an old compac laptop,

then a windows me emachine , oh yes, i remember the blue screendays, oh the memorys are flowing now... and around this time, my dad brought home this anicent win 3.1 machine, i love win 3.1 still, wish i could get a emulator somewhere... haha

then an emachine xp machine with a 1.7g celeron, back in the day, i was amazed,

mom got a compac laptop, alot of fun for playing mame roms on the go,
then i got our most recent comp, a 3.2 g hp with ht tech, 512 of ram 200gb hardrive, the works,
im so blessed, and stoked

oh and consoles. gameboy- super nes- gbcolor- playstation-n64- gba- gamecube!
love super smash melee, played it so much , and its still the best.
so there you have it , windows for me, haha.

 

[Chilufya]

1982-1984 Atari 2600
1984-1991 Commodore 64
1991-1995 Amiga 500
1993-1996 486-25
1996-1998 Pentium II
1998-2003 Intel Celeron 300
2003-present 2.6 mHz Celeron

 

[Ave Maria]

I don't remember the years exactly but here's my basic history:

3rd Grade: Played around on some Apple or Mac computers that were at school and even tried to mess with the settings! I was mischievous...

Around 6th grade: My grandparents bought their first computer and my first computer. It was a Windows 95 computer with 100 mhz Intel Pentium Processor. Only had 32mb of RAM too. Or maybe it was 16mb. The hard drive was a mere 1 gig. I really can't remember. All I know is it was STONE AGE!

Around 9th grade: My grandparents upgraded to a Windows 98 SE computer. It was 333mhz Intel Pentium 2 with 64mb of RAM I think. They still have this computer. Needless to say, I really liked the upgrade until I realized that a game that I seriously wanted (Empire Earth) required 350mhz processor. The hard drive on it is a 4 gig hard drive.

October 2002: After waiting for 2 long months, my Windows XP Pro computer finally arrived at college for Networking classes. It has an Intel Pentium 4 2.53ghz processor with 512mb of RAM, a DVD-ROM drive, and a CD-RW drive. The hard drive was 80 gigs which was way more than I have ever had before. And best of all, I own this computer!

 

[Kokopelli]

October 2002: After waiting for 2 long months, my Windows XP Pro computer finally arrived at college for Networking classes. It has an Intel Pentium 4 2.53ghz processor with 512mb of RAM, a DVD-ROM drive, and a CD-RW drive. The hard drive was 80 gigs which was way more than I have ever had before. And best of all, I own this computer!

I could easily have an 80gb HDD filled within a matter of minutes.

 

[Ave Maria]

I could easily have an 80gb HDD filled within a matter of minutes.

LOL! Not me. I'm currently only using 15.6 gigs and that's with absolutely everything I own installed.

 

[Heathen Dawn]

I remember less the hardware and more the operating system:

1984–1988 — Sinclair Spectrum 48K, Basic interpreter
1988–1992 — Amstrad PC 1512, MS-DOS and GEM (GUI)
1992–1995 — 80486, Windows 3.x
1995–1998 — Pentium I, Windows 95
1998–2001 — Pentium II, Windows 98
2001–2003 — Pentium III, Windows 2000
2004 — Pentium IV, Windows XP

 

[fallenbutterfly]

I grew up on a Commodore, still have the parts to it in my bedroom, somewhere. Next, we had a computer with MS Dos with Norton Commander, gosh, I loved Norton Commander! When I was in second grade, after my parent split, Mom got me a Packard Bell. I can't remember what processer it had, but it had Win 95, and the computer didn't seem to like me, as we reformatted it four times the first year, and once a year after that. Then, Mom got me a 1.2 AMD Thunderbird, with Win ME.

For Dad, we had a 486, then a EMachine, with Win 98, and a 400 some Celaron. Now, we have a Dell with 2.19 Pentium.

Now, gaming devices? We've had Atari, Nintendo (It's my brothers though), SNES, and a Sega Genesis. The Atari, SNES, and Sega Genesis are all in my bedroom, and I haven't been able to get them to work. I also have an old school clunky gameboy.

 

[FreakofGod83]

1989-1996: NES
1989-1993?: Apple II Series
1994-2000: Sega Genesis
1994-1998: Packard-Bell, Windows 3.11
2000-2003: Playstation One
1998-2003: Compaq, Windows '98 2nd Ed.
2003-Present: Compaq, Windows XP Professional
2004-on: Playstation 2

and yes, i have used macs but have never owned one and NEVER plan to!

lets extend this a bit:
Digital cameras:
-2002-Present: Fujifilm Finepix A303, 3.1 MpX, 3X zoom

 

[kurabrhm]

The first ever computer game I played was an old Systema hand held video game featuring a car race that my dad had bought for me during the first year of my life in England. Then we went all techno (lol) and bought another hand held game but this time its our old pal Sonic the hedgehog featuring on Sega. Anyone remember good old Sega? Ah, those were the days!! Then when I moved to the South of England my dad got us this ancient computer console called ZX Spectrum. It came with a bundle of beautiful games that I was so pleased with. These games are now ancient history of course but for me in those days they were worth more than all the gold in South Africa.
Playing those games was like driving a Lada through the streets of Moscow, Kiev and St. Petersburg! So sorry for that bad analogy since I know most Americans wont understand what a Lada is!
But anyway, then I sorta leap frogged to Sega's Mega Drive console on which I played such classics as Street Fighter (HOOORAY!!!) and The REVENGE OF SHINOBI.
Credit here also goes to that classic games company called CAPCOM.
Now, folks, we're moving onto PC territory! Drum rolls please...
My first ever PC - Compaq Presario, 200mhz, 32mb RAM, Intel Pentuim 1 processor. Now, my Compaq PC came with some amazing games like Time Commando and Microsoft Football. I used this PC up until about 2002/03!!!! Now, sadly, its new home is the garage...
But anyway, I write this on my new PC which is a Dell Dimension, Pentium 4, 2.53ghz, 256mb RAM. I also have an Acer Aspire Laptop which has an AMD Athlon chip featuring 2.4ghz processor and 256mb RAM. Memory upgrade is an option on my laptop but I hardly find that will be an imperative for the work I do on it. Sadly, no free games came with either of my two new PC's!!!