I was talking with a friend recently, being a nerd, and we were recalling our first computers. Then our second computers. Then I tried to remember all my computers. Then I felt if I didn't write some of this down I'd forget it and important history would be lost. Kind of like my list of mice I owned. Bless you Spot and Licorice and... the rest.
So, I present to you, my computer history! Things in parenthesis mean they were upgraded at some point. The sad part is my parents owned that computer from 2000 until 2011 when they finally replaced it.
ca. 1994
486 Processor @ 33 MHz
8MB RAM
200MB Hard Drive
Windows 3.1
15" CRT
ca. 1997
166MHz Pentium Processor
32MB RAM
3.2GB Hard Drive
Windows 95
15" CRT
ca. 2000
866MHz Pentium III Processor
128MB RAM (384MB)
20GB Hard Drive
TNT2 3D Graphics Accelerator
Windows ME (XP)
17" CRT
ca. 2005
2.8GHz Pentium 4 Processor
512MB RAM (2.5GB)
160GB Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 (Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT)
Windows XP Media Center
17" LCD
ca. 2010
2.67GHz Intel Core i5-750 processor
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 RAM
750GB Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce GTS240 (Nvidia GeForce GTX 650Ti)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
24" 1080p @ 60hz LCD & 17" LCD
ca. 2017
3.00GHz Intel Core i5-7400 processor
16GB DDR4-2133 RAM
256GB SSD (boot) & 1TB HDD (storage)
Nvidia GeForce GTX1050 (Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super)
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
24" 1080p @ 60hz LCD & 17" LCD
ca. 2021
3.80GHz Intel Core i7-10700K (5.10GHz Turbo Boost)
32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (boot) + 2TB SSD (storage)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 8GB
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
27" 1440p @ 144hz IPS LCD & 17" LCD (Oculus Quest 2 for VR)
I'd kill for that 1994 machine now.
Friday, January 11, 2013
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My first "modern" computer was a 233Mhz Packard Bell with 48MB of RAM and a 6GB hard drive running Windows 95. I got that in April of 1998. I still remember being unable to sleep from the excitement the night before I got it.
ReplyDeleteBut my first computer ever was a Commodore 64 that I got in the early 90s. It ran BASIC and came with an external tape drive (yes, an actual tape).
Later in the mid-90s I got a 286 computer and eventually a 386 computer. Both ran DOS and the latter allowed me to run more modern software, but it was still behind the times compared to the Windows computers that had become commonplace. I have a very geeky photo of me sitting in front of that one.