I used to have all of my old computer hardware and software until early January 2005, when an unfortunate act of nature took most of it away - an old pine tree lost its footing and fell right on top of the storage shed where I kept my stuff. The shed was flattened like a pancake, and everything inside was broken, mangled or badly damaged. On top of that it was raining very hard, and it didn't stop for another 3 days. By the time I could go outside and look, it was too late; nothing was salvageable. I had no choice but to throw everything away to the local dumpster.I still have a few mementos left - a RealVision Flash 3D Voodoo 1 driver floppy, demo CD and manual and a Visiontek GeForce 2 GTS driver CD and manual are reminders of what I used to have once 🙁

Damn, that's probably going to top anything that anyone else can bring to this conversation... though I seem to recall that nforce4max had a similar catastrophe involving a house fire. You guys should commiserate 🙁

I have some.

Back when I had just started collecting (I already had quite a lot by that time) I dismantled an AT case with LED display and all and threw it out, with it's power supply. It was really good looking for a small AT tower and I had no particular reason to ditch it except for being a n00b at the time.
Some time later (when I had just moved out to my own place) I threw out ALL of my 386 and 486 boards which hadn't a ZIF socket (including a 386/486 combo board with filled cache sockets (I pulled the cache chips though before I threw the boards out).

The funny thing is, I'm always worried my house would catch fire so I'm kinda addicted to pulling any power plugs of any electrical machine that's not used like the TV, washing machine and even my main rigs (basically only the fridge is connected 24/7 🤣 )

IBM Portable PC, I fried the PSU trying to connect a bigger PC speaker. That thing was a beast.
IBM PC XT w/EGA monitor although I did strip the cards at least.
Generic AT system with FIC VA-503+ and K6-2
HP Vectra Pentium Pro 200

Can't keep everything! I already have too many systems and games I never have time to play.
My completed games list hasn't changed for months, although I'm hoping to do something about that now the nights are drawing in.

My first ever PC computer... an Elonex 386 33Mhz hand me down from my uncle. I had it for throughout much of the 90's and gave it to a family friend's son as a first computer once I had my next system (Pentium) in place.

I miss it more for sentimental reasons... I learned how to use Dos on that thing, and did things like complete Leisure Suit Larry 1 (the VGA ver) unassisted... I wasn't even sophisticated enough to have a proper sound card... just the shitty bleep of the PC speaker.

I have built many 386's since, with better specs and in various different AT cases... but none like the one I had.

I sorely miss three computers - an Apple II clone (Datamini I) - spent so many hours in front of it, even though I coveted my friends' XT, but in my twenties heartlessly threw it on the kerb; my second computer, a 386SX met the same fate, though I kept the sound card and sold the 5.25"; and a Powermac 9500, loaded with RAM, seagate Cheetahs and Adaptec 29160, a V5 5500 PCI, and a 19" Gateway monitor, which I gave to my sister for her design studies, who subsequently turfed it on the kerbside as well.

Thankfully most of my other systems were sold as parts as I upgraded, and I kept a 486 laptop along the way.

My first PC: a Philips P3238. 😀

The Apple ][e. It was such a great machine and this one was loaded. Two drives, good monitor, full of cards including the Microsoft CP/M and a 110-300 modem, and a big box of software. I had such fun exploring it and there remains many many hours of exploring yet to do.

But then I got the Amiga and the internet was getting interesting. The ][e was completely obsolete and took up precious desk space. "Retro" didn't exist, and it was reasonable to presume the ][e would be as little missed as the junk that preceded it.

Gosh, I don't know where to begin with this...

The first PC I ever used - my dad's old 486DX/33 desktop, which was thrown away around 2007 or so. Learned how to use DOS and Windows 3.1 on that thing. Also, around the same time, we junked the former family PC: an old K6/233 that had a Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card and some other neat hardware. Of course, I deeply regret doing that nowadays, since we didn't rescue the cards from that rig. Only remnants from that computer that I still have are a TDK CD-RW drive, which now resides in my K6-2, and the hard drives - a 40GB Maxtor slimline and a 60GB Maxtor. Oh, and the box for the 4500.

More recent regrets include a 386 Gateway 2000 desktop that, IIRC, I could never get working, so I returned it to the dump. Nowadays, had I kept it, I probably would have tried my best to get that thing working. Nowadays, I only sell/throw away systems that I don't want or are just lying around, doing nothing, and also systems that kinda "trample" over other rigs I have (i.e. similar specs/hardware). And I've come to acquire several unique systems over the years, like a Gateway 2000 G6-200, which is a Pentium Pro 200; a socket 4 Packard Bell computer with a Pentium 60, and a couple others.

A very generic and rather abused (huge dents) AT case that housed my first socket 7 system. Had to move and did not realize how hard it is to find these dang things! Also the board that went to it, because now that I have more experience (and AT power supplies) I am pretty sure that it was still good and the psu was the only part that was dead. O and a matx Etower case that housed one of the CNET's list of top worst pcs ever. That would have been a fun and deceptive build.

A voodoo 3 v2000 pci.

Was moving an had to throw out some old pc junk (nothing of significance)... Didn't realize at the time (been atleast 7 years ago) how much a pci Voodoo 3 was worth.

On pc hardware i didnt never giving something to others also didnt throwing it away. I was always very economical committing.

Mostly my older hardware i did sold them.. I only have regret of selling my older ASUS V9999 6800 Gamer edition that was fully unlocked! Because i think its was one of my better graphics card i got back in the days.

Where i most angry was on, is that my dad threwing away his AT style computers.. Because he told that one if them had an blowned PSU.. Iam angry about it that he never keep that system to give it to me. I really would had like those parts right here now.. I only have some harddisks that where in of those computers.

Where i also angry was on that my parents had influence on throwing away things i wasnt beware off.. 😠

ALL my pre Pentium hardware.
Almost all of my AT cases.
Most of my AT socket 7 boards as I threw away all non ATX/PCI gear mid 2000 just to regret it not long thereafter.

Im a horder of epic proportions so we are talking about ALOT of stuff.
The socket 7 stuff and AT cases I have left survived only because they were stored away at my parents place and I had forgot all about them.

Some of... ehm... all these clean outs happened because Sirens lured me with their enchanting music.
Now I have been single for a really long time... and I get to keep my stuff.

What I regret the most is saying no to buy a second hand Neon 250 in 2001.....

Most of my big gameboxes 😢

My Apple //e 😢 😢 😢

My IBM ps1/pro monitor-keyboard-mouse , they got thrown away - luckily I kept the main unit.

I regret throwing out my computers from the 90's. I had 2 compaqs and a designer tower Packard Bell all of them with good CRT monitors and matching keyboards. 😒 If I could go back I would slap myself so hard for doing that!

Procyon wrote:

Most of my big gameboxes 😢

Same here... I kept virtually all the manuals and jewel case inserts, though, so there's that.

Robin4 wrote:

Where i also angry was on that my parents had influence on throwing away things i wasnt beware off.. 😠

I've lost so much good stuff that way.

I regret selling my Amiga 1200 + 1084 monitor. I don't even remember buying anything worthwhile with that money. Can't think of anything else at the moment!