-Celeron 300A at 463MHz (103*4.5)
-Abit BH6
-started with 64MB RAM, added soon another 128M for 196M total;
-started with ATI Rage Pro (ATI Xpert@Play AGP 8MB), upgraded to TNT2 M64 (Guillemot) then Geforce3 Ti-200 and eventually to Geforce4 Ti-4200 (of course not in 1999)
-6GB Maxtor HDD initially, soon added another Seagate 15GB and eventually replaced both with another one 30GB
-a number of IDE CD/CDRW/DVD drives, must have been about 10 of them over the years
-external serial modem - required to connect in Linux, because PCI winmodems wouldn't work under it
-sound Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371) aka soundblaster PCI
-for a while I had in it a Sigma Designs DVD/MPEG2 decoder card which could painfully be hacked to work in Linux as well.
-Windows 98 running alongside with a variety of Linux distributions, mostly Slackware (3.5 to 7)
-Advansys ABP-930 SCSI card, initially used with a Plextor CDRW drive, then also with a Seagate HDD I forget how big (40GB or so) and internal SCSI Zip drive (what a POS that was)
The CPU was eventually upgraded to a Coppermine Celeron on a Slotket adapter, I think it was 700 MHz, and then to a Tualatin Celeron at 1100MHz on a hacked adapter (required by the voltages of the Tualatin)
I ran this system in its various configurations from 1998 till about 2002 or 2003 when I was seduced by the dark side and upgraded to a Athlon XP PR2200+ system. My desktops have been AMD-based since then, currently ASUS M5A99FX Pro/AMD FX-8350/Radeon 7970/16GB.
At the same time I was also using a Thinkpad 755CX laptop (pentium 75, 8M RAM soldered on-board, upgradable to max 40MB with a proprietary memory card, 1024x768 TFT LCD, Mwave modem/sound card, 800MB HDD, Windows 95 OSR1 which came on 26 floppy disks) which I have owned since 1996; I still have it and it still works though several keys are broken. I tried a couple of years ago to replace the keyboard with one I had found advertised as NOS but I think the replacement keyboard is bad as when I install it the right half of it doesn't work. Doesn't have a CD drive, but I got for it a Panasonic KXL-D745 external SCSI CD drive complete with PCMCIA SCSI/sound card which joyfully collided with the internal mwave sound in a horrible and insolvable labyrinth of IRQ and I/O address conflicts. As a result when I was using the CDROM I would usually be unable to play sound.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O