First post, by computergeek92
I'm not for sure, but I think my first computer was this old Pentium 1 AST Advantage 9000 Series (Next to me in this photo!) I believe it was either a 120MHz or 133MHz model and ran Windows 95. I have been using computers since I was four. (I'm now in my 20's) My next computers were hand-me-downs from my dad. When he upgraded, he gave me his previous computer. I don't remember what they were, some ran Windows 98. The first computer I remember receiving brand new was a 2004 Dell Dimension 2400. My parents bought it for me when I completed Elementary school. It had a Pentium 4 cpu at 2.2GHz, 1GB DDR 266 ram, a 40GB Ide hard drive, 128MB Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 PCI video card, a Soundblaster Live SB0200 (It was hideous finding drivers for that card) and Windows XP all together in the micro atx case. Alongside the old Dell I got a HP Pavillion ZD8000 laptop (Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 1GB Ram, 80GB hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, Windows XP) in 2009 when my dad passed away.. 😢 I also received his Dell Inspiron 8500, (Pentium 4 2.2, 1GB Ram, 40GB Hard drive, Windows XP, as well as two Identical beige towers also running Windows XP. They were: Duron 1.3GHz, 512MB Ram (one had 768MB), 20GB in one and a 80GB in the other. They both had an ASUS A7V motherboard, some 16MB ATI Rage AGP card, no sound cards or integrated sound and they were the first PCs I ever opened up, took apart, and put back together, entering a whole new world of fun. I got rid of one of them by mistake with the Dell desktop thinking the Dell was broken (Ony had a Virus) and that the Duron would be donated to a new home. But back then I thought PC recycling meant re-using it , not destroying it. I regret it now. (I did not know much about PCs then, I should of fixed the Dell and cleaned up the Duron.) I also found the last computer dad gave me: In 2007 or 2008 I asked for a Windows 98 PC to back up my Dells files to and he gave me a Micron micro-Atx tower with a Celeron 667MHz, 64MB Ram, and a 20GB Hard drive. When I graduated from high school I bought an HP Workstation XW4200. (Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1.5GB Ram, 74.5Gb hard drive, some 256MB Nvidia Quadro PCI x16 card, and Windows XP again. (favoite OS) Later on my mom gave me some of her old laptops: IBM Thinkpad R31 - Pentium III 1.1GHz (Tualatin!) 256MB Ram, 20GB hard drive, Windows XP, then her Toshiba Sateillite who's LED backlight broke: Celeron M 1.4GHz, 768MB Ram, 40GB Hard drive, Windows XP, and last but not least, an HP Pavillion DV6000: Turion x2 1.6GHz (dual core) 1.5GB Ram, 80GB Hard drive, Windows XP. My next computers were all countless freebees from the PC stores (When I gained my tech skills.) but the first PC I ever built myself was in late 2011 of old and new parts: Athlon II x2 270 3.4GHz (fastest Athlon II x2 at the time) 2GB DDR3 1333, 74.5GB hard drive (From the old HP XW4200) 700MB Integrated Radeon HD graphics (worked quite well for all the old 2005-08 games I had) Onboard Realtek HD Audio, ECS A880GM-M6 motherboard, and Windows XP 32-Bit. (Don't like Windows 7) Ok, so those all were the first PCs I've had through the years, what were yours?
My AST Advantage Pentium 1. Photo was taken in 1998. I Don't know what happened to
that PC...
My HP Pavillion ZD8000. My daily driver till 2013.
My Dell Inspiron 8500. Was the first PC I tried upgrading the Ram. I put in DDR2 sticks
in its DDR1 slots by mistake and fried the slots. Still works though with the original ram but
is very slow.
The case used for my dad's identical Duron PCs - What a pretty!
The innards of the Micron PC (missing the original case)
My IBM Thinkpad R31. I traded it with a friend for a Gateway Solo 2550 (Pentium III 600MHz)
My Toshiba Satellite laptop (Forgot model number) I accidentally fried it when I cut the
monitor cable from the dead lcd to have it as a headless laptop.
My HP Pavillion DV6000. This is the last PC my dad bought. (from 2007)
Inside my first build-a-pc. I Sold it recently to buy parts for the new AMD FX-6300 gaming PC i'm building.
Dedicated Windows 95 Aficionado for good reasons:
http://toastytech.com/evil/setup.html