All the comps youve went through over time

Big Chief

ok did post this on another thread, but i completely got way off topic with it, and after doing it i decided to actually do a new thread about it :cool:, that and you can tell most peoples ages etc by what they have went through themselves

ok here goes

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went through loads of computers..

started off with a dragon 32
think it was the atari (3200? i cant remember)
after that it was the spectrum zx if i remember rightly.. (although it was my brother who got this if i remember right "yah i know my memory sux "
then onto commodore 64
then the NES (yes the preceedor before snes), got it with "duckshot" and that big orange gun, that owned
from there it was onto the master system
then the mega drive
then onto the playstation
got a N64 while still had playstation though (first comp i bought with my own wages that i earned, was 16 at the time)
from there i gotta PC at around end of 16/start of 17 (p2 400mhz, 32 meg ram, built in gfx+soundcard, although this was a family computer not mine)
then i bought me own pc a year afterwards(amd k7 500mhz "worst cpu ever imo", 32 meg ram, ati rage 128, built in sound)
upgraded the computer a few times since..
and finally bought a ps2 about 2/3 months back..
current pc atm is = amd xp 2100+, pc2100 256 meg ram, Geforce 2 GTS 64 mb, on board sound due to sound card not being compatible with winNT though


hmm looking back i was kinda spoiled with computers :rolleyes:

think they just got them to shut me and my brother up..

i thought i had a snes at one time or another as i remember playing mario kart for AGES, but i think i just swapped it for me mega drive for about a month or so

[edit] after seeing dukes post it reminded me i also had a amiga 500, somewhere around the same time as the mega drive or maybe just afterwards.. [/edit]

OSiriS

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71435

TheDuke

80 - Comodore VIC20 - in school
82 - ZXSpectrum +2
84 - C64 + Floppy drive
Never got the Amiga - but would have loved one
90 - 386SX
94 - 486DX
95 - Pentium 90MHz
and after that I've not really styed faithfull to any one machine but palyed arround but am the proud owner of a now dated MHz1.7 P3 system

What is Snes - never head of it

Always paid for it with my own money (summer work and stuff).

So what age am I

The Duke : ))

Big Chief

osiris, that thread is asking you what you still have sitting around though

whereas im asking you what youve had, it dosent have to be sitting in your attic.. (that and i never really look at retro forums so )

infact dont think i have any of those sitting around in my parents house anymore, maybe the n64 and i think the commodore 64 is in the garage, thats about it..

Duke = Snes is the super nintendo

nes was the normal nintendo, its predocessor (sp?)

superfly

SNES- Super Nintendo Entertainment System

i started off with a pong type telly thing
Speccy 48k
BBC Micro
Speccy 128k
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Playstation
PC
and next i must get a PS2

oeNeo

Not that many:

Atari: Dunno which one.. it had Dungeons and Dragons though
Sega Mega Drive 2: most fun i've had from a computer, Sonic the Hedgehog is just the win!
Nintendo64: Still have it with Star wars: rogue squadron, Goldeneye and something else.. not sure.

Celeron 300, 32mb Ram, really old 14" monitor with onboard Gfx and sound.
Now I have an AMD T-Bird 1.3, 384 mb Ram, Tnt2 Ultra and a 17" monitor which isn't that bad.

amp

Pong type thingy most likely the same as Superfly's
Atari 2600
Speccy 48k
Amiga 500 (big jump)
486 sx25 with a 60 mb drive compressed to 120 and with 4mbs of ram!
Dell Dimension P90
Psx (just to play Ridgeracer, and mostly now for tekken 3 and Gran Turismo)
Digital 3100 (P2 200 mhz)
Athlon 550mhz based system (later retired for use as a server)
P3 1ghz, 768 mb's of ram, Geforce 2mx, and more harddisk space than I can remember.

I really really want to upgrade to a p4/Xp based system with a Geforce Ti4600 and with a black case and little lights and a built in washing machine.

And a ps2. Cos I like SSX tricky and Tekken, and that game were you have to CRASH into other cars and stuff.

TheDuke

In fact all of the machines I listed ARE sitting on my attic. No joke. I spent so much time with these things between patching, adding, gaming and coding - I even have my first high speed 1400 baud modem :cool: and my very first SVGA card with 256KB memory .

Now that's what I call nostalgia. Once in a blue moon I take them down and run a few games for old times sake.

The Duke : ))

amp

Yeah my 486 sx25 had a half meg of graphics memory and an 8-bit sound card. But this was in the day when P.c's weren't even really considered a games platform.

Kairo

here we go:

• An Atari pong box with paddles which had various sports themed games..which were just varieties of pong ;p
• Vic 20 which I played like twice in my life
• Commodore 64...ooh baby. Manic Miner, Impossible Mission..the list goes on. Got an updated C64 later on then..which was whiter
• Gameboy!
• Commodore Amiga a500
• Sega Megadrive
• Super Nintendo (Actually ended up with two of them..Gerry Ryans to blame! I know it...)
• PC: Pentium 75...and it begins
• Nintendo 64
• Upgraded p75 to a p166
• Gameboy Color
• Gameboy Advance
• 1800+ Athlon PC

Also had a dreamcast for about a week, until the sound gave in and I decided to hell with it and just gave it back.

Several other pcs have come and gone too..but the original and my current would be the main ones.

and out of all of them..I think the most impressive moment I've ever experienced would be firing up Hexen for the first time on the P75.

TinCool

Here's what I've had over the years in no particular order

1. VIC20
2. Commodore64
3. Commodore128
4. Atari 520STF
5. Atari ST 520STFM
6. SNES
7. 3DO
8. PS1
9. PS2
10. Gamecube
11. Gamegear
12. Gameboy Advance
13. 386 20mhz
14. 486 DX4 100
15. P200MMX
16. Celeron 400
17 Celeron 566
18. Duron 1GIG
19. AthlonXP 1.8
20. Atari 2600
21. Dreamcast

Hmm, I think thats my lot

Inf

Commodore64
Nes
SNES
Mega Drive (think it was 2)
Playstation
Playstation2
222mhz piece of junk pc :>
800mhz tbird
and ive a 1.66ghz xp2000+ sitting in a mates house atm waiting to be collected.

richindub2

GameGear
NES
Megadrive2
Playstation
N64
p3 550
p3 650
1gig tbird with geforce3

Dont be at yourself

Colecovision
C64
Atari ST
MegaDrive
SNES
Gameboy
Gamegear
Gameboy Advance
PSX
Saturn
N64
DreamCast
PS2
GameCube
Gameboy Advance

Giblet

An ORIC 48K (still have)

Some multi pong box thing with either pong, or a soccer game type thing. (long gone)

Atari 2600 (gone)

Commodore 64 (gone)

Nes (gone)

Amiga 500 (with Screengems) (gone)

Mega Drive (gone)

Snes (gone)

N64 (still have)

Playstation (still have)

Dreamcast (still have)

Playstation 2 (still have)

GameCube (just got)

Dell 486-dx33 16mb Ram (gone)

HP Pentium 100 16mb Ram 2MB video (gone)

Compaq laptop Pentium 133 12mb Ram (gone)

Viglen P2 266 64mb Ram 8mb Video 3DFX (died)

Compaq P2 233 48 mb Ram 4mb Video ati rage (using it now)

Fujitsu P3 P2 400 8mb Video ati rage (gone)

Toshiba laptop 300 4mb Video ati rage (still have)

Fujitsu P3 733 16mb Video ati rage (gone)

Dell P4 1.4ghz 64mb GF3 ti300 (still have)

deadl0ck

Grand Stand Console (see here) (Gone)

Atari 2600 (Still have)

Game and Watch (Gone)

Commodore 64 (Still Have)

Sega Megadrive (Still Have)

Original Gameboy (Still Have)

PC (Upgraded obviouslly)

Playstation (Still Have)

Nintendo 64 (Still Have)

Dreamcast (Still Have)

Gameboy Advance (Still Have)

Nintendo Gamecube (Still Have)

I think that about covers it !

Lemming

* Commodore Vic 20
* Commodore C64 (x2) w/ 1541 mk.1 FDD, 3 printers of various description
* Sega MegaDrive w/MegaCD + 32x
* Sega DreamCast
* Nintendo GameBoy Advance
* PC (p200, 64mb ram, voodoo-banshee card)
* PC (amd xp1600+, 256ddr ram, geForce4 ti4600, etc, etc)

(and I still have every one of them - well, the vic20 is still in the family though)

Monty - the one and only

Atari 2600
commadore 64
Amiga 500
nintendo
megadrive
Snes
gameboy
gamegear
atari lynx
3do
atari jaguar(dont have it anymore)
neogeo
N64
Dreamcast
Playstation
gamecube
pc(133mhz 28mb ram)
pc (550mhz 128mb ram)

Dont think I left anything out...I dont have most of the above anymore:(

milltown

18 years ago: A lend of my uncle's ZX81! Over an hour to type in a game from reams of paper (not a touch typist obviously!) and a further two hours going back over it looking for the "syntax errors"
14 years ago: ZX Spectrum 48. Now we're talking, full colour graphics and the luxury of loading games from tapes. Way of the exploding fist caused me many a blister!
About 8 years discovering the pleasures of flesh and alcohol.
4 years ago: Gateway P3 500 with 128MB RAM and 16MB Voodoo3 gfx. Bought purely on the strength of Quake 2 played in the Gateway shop in Liffey Valley. Top of the line at the time (and will be for years to come, according to the salesdude).
3 months ago: Upgraded the above to Athlon 2000XP,256DDR,GF3Ti500. I am in gaming heaven once again, although I can't believe the one thing I haven't had to upgrade is my 56K modem!
Next: Whatever Alienware's Ultimate Behemoth is at the time.

DiscoStu

Ive not had that many.

1. Master System
2. SNES
3. Gameboy
4. Gameboy Advance
5. Atari ST
6. N64
7. Playstation
8. 500mhz P3, GF2MX 32Mb, 640Mb RAM, 9Gb HD - really dosnt cut the mustard anymore
9. Athlon XP 1500+, S3 Savage4(****)32Mb integrated, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HD - not mine but my sisters. used for setting up servers for mp games so i dont have to run the bots off my comp, it saves an awful lot of processor time.
10. PS2 - wrapped up and waiting for chrimbo.

miju

So far I've gone through the following comps;

Atari
Commodore 64 [Holds A Special Place In My Heart & Always Will]
Spectrum
Nintendo
N64
Playstation
Playstation 2

Not very many but I know this list will get very long in the years to come.

Dustaz

1. (my mates) Atari 4xxx
2. Spectrum 48k - complete with l33t screw on 'proper' keyboard - Take it case modders
3. Performa XXX Mac
4. a 7200 Mac
5. p3 500
6. amd xp 1600


Never owned one of those nasty console yokes (apart from me mates atari which i 'appropriated' for a while). Oh, and a few of those handheld donkey kong yokes which were all the rage back in the day.

Kevok

Ah the Game & Watch, Donkey Kong Jnr was the best one

ondafly

-Spectrum 48K
-Amstrad 1512 with GEM gui (YUCK!!!!) and 20mb HD
-Gameboy
-Digital 386 16mhz with 4mb of ram and 60MB HD
-SNES
-Atari Lynx II
-Playstation
-N64
-another playstation
-Dell 600mhz P3
-P3 600Emhz
-P3 450mhz
-PS2
-Gameboy advance
-P4 1.8 laptop
-Dell 400mhz celeron

DapperGent

- Some form Spectrum (can't remember)
- Some form of Atari (can't remember)
- BBC Micro (fantastic)

.... The fallow years

- NES (wondrous Marioage)
- SNES (who's your Daddy?)
- N64 (squib of moistness)
- Crap PC (can't remember how crap -still have the old hardrive in my new PC it's a 2 gig so it must have been really crap)

I know have a nice PC that my brother built for me. P3 700 with 256 and other numbers.

Pepe LeFrits

- some old mac thing with a green screen and a space invaders game
- VIC 20
- C16 (Thrust and X-Zap, oh yeah)
- C64 (Rick Dangerous tbh)
- IBM 286
- Dell P60 (pwnage)
- Dell P2 350 (pwnagex2) + various upgrades
- Playstation
- 1.2 gig tbird + many upgrades over the past 18 months or so

Greenbean

Amiga 500
N64
P133
P450
P733

How THE FVCK did everyone else afford all their stuff? Jebus christicubus.

Big Chief

Originally posted by Greenbean
How THE FVCK did everyone else afford all their stuff? Jebus christicubus.

cause thats all the computers ive went through in 20 years..

besides i only started buying me own comps at the n64, rest were just chrimbo presents etc

Woden

just a few myself

commodore 64
gameboy
snes
ps
fujitsu p3 850mhz 512mb
brothers getting ps2 for xmas, effectively mine.

and just to note the snes was way better then the megadrive

Dampsquid

CPC 464 '85-92
AST 586 100Mhz 16MB 800MB HDD '95-97
P200 32MB 2GB HDD 97 - present
XBox 2002

Im the only one here with a Amstrad CPC and an Xbox... i feel so left out

Doodah7

Much the same as everyone else really

Started off with Pong type thingy with football and squash derivatives. Still in full working order with the box, instructions, polystyrene packaging etc.

Then ZX Spectrum back in Chrimbo '83. I remember it cost my folks £220 which was a lot 20 years ago.

Then came a Gameboy,
Sega Mega Drive 2
Playstation (with nearly every peripheral you can think of)
Dreamcast
and currently a P4 1.6mhz.

All of the above have their all of their original packaging manuals etc. Never chuck anything out, that's me!!

And boy would I love an xbox...

ozt9vdujny3srf

commodore 64 :P Gameboy Snes PC (133mhz 2mb grphics, 16 mb of ****ty ram, 2gb hd) PS1 PS2 PC(2ghz p4, geforce 4 ti4600, 512 rambus, 80 gb hd) PC(athlonXP 1900+. TNT 2 32 mb, 256 sd133 ram, 80 gb hd) And thats it :P

bubbles

Spectrum 64k
IBM 8086 PC
286
386
Mega Drive
Master System
386 laptop - tiny monocrone screen!
484
SNES
Gameboy
Play Station
p166
p200 pro
N64
p400
Gameboy Color
Playstation
N64
p800
Gamecube
p1400
Playstation 2
Gameboy Advance
Xbox
2.5ghz Monster Machine
1.9ghz Laptop

Barry Aldwell

Consoles:
Master System ~1990 (still have)
Mega Drive ~1993 (still have)
PS2 2001 (obviously still have)

PCs:
P1 200mhz, 32 mb ram, 4gb HD (bought in 97, got it in 98) which I had to use up until recently until I turfed it off to relatives to make room for my:
P4 2.53 mhz, 512mb ram, 120gb HD. Cost over 4 grand. Having your parents win the lotto is great.

Tellox

90 - Spectrum
92 - NES
Master system - not sure when I got it..
93 - Megadrive/Genesis & SNES
95 - Playstation
96 - First evar PC. 300mhz, 3gb hd. Cant remember much else about it. T'was a family pc so I didnt use it a lot
98 - My own PC. pretty much same specs. Mammy got it off a friend for £900 inc monitor
98/99 - N64
'00 - Another new PC, This time a compaq - P3 500mhz, Geforce2 32mb card, 128mb SDRAM, 30gb in hard drives. Thats including upgrades.
'02 - Ps2
'03 - Gamecube and another new PC. (Not a brand name this time), AMD XP2000+, 512DDR, Geforce4mx460 (just bought a ti4200 the other day, installing it tonight), 80gb HDD

Guess I was pretty spoilt too..

theciscokid

atari 2600 nes atari st game gear snes game boy color n64 (2 of 'em don't ask) p4 1.7 game boy advance gamecube atari jaguar

looking for the atari jag cd add on, boy they're hard to find!!