Do you still remember your old PCs you used many years ago?

[JovianPat]

I couldn't remember all the details, but the first PC I've ever used was my parent's PC. I think the OS was Windows 2000. I used to play games there with my older brother. A few years later (2004?) my father bought a new PC, he said it had a "brand new OS", which was Windows XP. I don't remember the specs, but one thing I know is that we finally have an internet connection, using a dial-up internet access. Opening Google took around 5 minutes, and we can only open a few websites. We still use those big Floppy Disks, because CD-ROMs were quite expensive.

Around 2007 or 2008 we changed the PC into a new one. It's still Windows XP, but it had much better specs. The processor was Intel Pentium 4 (3 GHz), and it included a GPU, which was NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE. It had 512 MB of RAM and 80GB HDD. This is the PC that got me into gaming, and also my first PC to have a proper internet connection, using a LAN cable. Unfortunately the PC broke in 2012 due to overheating and age. The GPU was damaged, but luckily the HDD survived, so we copied everything into my brother's laptop. The GPU was removed, and not long after that the HDD got the Click of Death... and that was the end of it.

I got my first notebook in 2012, which was Acer Aspire V5-471G. Used it for five years before changing into a proper gaming laptop, Asus ROG Strix GL553VD, which I'm using right now.

[NaturalViolence]

486/32MHz/windows 95 -> pentium/100MHz/windows 95 - > pentium III/1GHz/windows 98 -> pentium IV/2.5GHz/windows xp -> pentium D/3.4GHz/windows xp -> core 2 quad/2.4GHz/windows xp/7 -> core i5 ivy bridge/3.5-3.9GHz/windows 7/10

I could put in more details but I think those are the most important.

[Craftyawesome]

I had a 98 with Jazz Jackrabbit and a kart racer. Then an xp with pinball. Then a vista laptop (first not shared). It was 32 bit and had intel gma graphics. Then a windows 8 laptop with i3-3110m 2.4 ghz and intel hd 4000. And then my current desktop with i5-6000k 4.5 ghz and a gtx 1060.

[ExtremeDude2]

(08-09-2017, 10:22 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: I could put in more details but I think those are the most important.

I'll be lazy and copy you:

pentium/100MHz/windows 95/?MB - > pentium III/1GHz/windows 98SE/128MB -> pentium 4/2.?GHz/windows xp/512MB -> AMD athlon II x2/1.9GHz/windows vista/3GB -> AMD phenom II x4/3.3GHz/windows 7/10 / 8/4GB -> intel i5 6600k/4.2GHz/windows 10/16GB
None of these had a GPU till I started using windows 7 and beyond.

[DacoTaco]

here is my history of all the computers i remember, which is nearly all off them.

- my brothers' pentium 1 (OC iirc)/can't remember which windows as i was very very very young

[many years pass in which i dont have access to a computer besides a commodore 64]

- pentium 2/win98 (somebody got rid of it)

- AMD Athlon 800Mhz/winXP
this one is special to me and is still alive and in my possession to this day. i got it with Windows XP and a GF2MX video card. i played Guild Wars on that and was my first pc i got to play around with
It is now in my room with 640MB SDRAM , Geforce 6400 and.... Windows 98SE XD
It can do dual monitoring and is just a lovely beast

- Space heater aka pc that had a P4 2Ghz,upgraded to P4 2.4Ghz and eventually upgraded to P4 3Ghz (HT) cpu/ Windows XP & Windows 7
man, this pc also has a place in my heart... kept me warm in the winter too!
to me this pc felt like a pc with ram processing power. mostly because the P4 was just that XD

- AMD cpu, can't remember which one. 1.6Ghz / Windows XP & 7

- C2D e7500 (3Ghz), windows 7

- Core i5 4690 3.5Ghz, Windows 7 & 10
current PC

- Core i5 whatever version , Windows 8.1 which got upgraded to 10 within a week of getting that laptop.

[mbc07]

My first computer was running a Pentium MMX @ 233 MHz with 64MB of RAM and a Trident GPU (don't remember the exact model) with 16MB of VRAM. It initially ran Windows 98 but I and my brother kept pushing it further to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and finally Windows XP, which it barely cut the absolute minimum system requirements and had an abysmal performance. Then I jumped to a completely new computer, this time with a Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2 GHz with 2GB of RAM and no GPU, running Windows Vista out of box, which I upgraded to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and this computer still is the "base" (chassis, some peripherals, etc) I use nowadays. Eventually I threw a GeForce GT 440 to it and later on it got upgraded to the current Pentium G3258 OCed to 4.2 GHz and 16GB of RAM from my signature, alongside the move to Windows 10.

More or less at the same time I upgraded to the Haswell build I also got my first (and current) laptop, from the signature. It came with Windows 8, and got updated to Windows 8.1 and finally Windows 10, which it runs nowadays. The only upgrades I did to it was on the storage side, where I bumped from 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD + 120GB mSATA SSD which I use half as cache through Intel Smart Response and another half for storing files. The only thing left to do on it is bumping the RAM, but it's not worth given the age of the laptop and I would rather buy a new one than investing on DDR3 RAM nowadays.

On the PC, my plan is eventually throwing a Haswell or a Broadwell i7 on it and ditching the GT 440 for a GTX 1050 Ti, which is the fastest NVIDIA GPU available in low-profile form factor I can get at the moment. Once this upgraded build doesn't cut anymore, it'll be time to build a new system from scratch...

[JovianPat]

(08-10-2017, 04:14 AM)mbc07 Wrote: My first computer was running a Pentium MMX @ 233 MHz with 64MB of RAM and a Trident GPU (don't remember the exact model) with 16MB of VRAM. It initially ran Windows 98 but I and my brother kept pushing it further to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and finally Windows XP, which it barely cut the absolute minimum system requirements and had an abysmal performance. Then I jumped to a completely new computer, this time with a Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2 GHz with 2GB of RAM and no GPU, running Windows Vista out of box, which I upgraded to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and this computer still is the "base" (chassis, some peripherals, etc) I use nowadays. Eventually I threw a GeForce GT 440 to it and later on it got upgraded to the current Pentium G3258 OCed to 4.2 GHz and 16GB of RAM from my signature, alongside the move to Windows 10.

More or less at the same time I upgraded to the Haswell build I also got my first (and current) laptop, from the signature. It came with Windows 8, and got updated to Windows 8.1 and finally Windows 10, which it runs nowadays. The only upgrades I did to it was on the storage side, where I bumped from 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD + 120GB mSATA SSD which I use half as cache through Intel Smart Response and another half for storing files. The only thing left to do on it is bumping the RAM, but it's not worth given the age of the laptop and I would rather buy a new one than investing on DDR3 RAM nowadays.

On the PC, my plan is eventually throwing a Haswell or a Broadwell i7 on it and ditching the GT 440 for a GTX 1050 Ti, which is the fastest NVIDIA GPU available in low-profile form factor I can get at the moment. Once this upgraded build doesn't cut anymore, it'll be time to build a new system from scratch...

Actually I never upgraded the OS in my old PC, since Windows Vista isn't that good. My dad's laptop used to have Windows Vista in it, and it ran into multiple problems months after he bought it. His laptop is a Compaq (I forgot the model) and it has Intel Core 2 Duo. He upgraded into Windows 7 after the ordeal and it's still working until today. The battery is broken (it could only last 10 minutes) but everything else worked fine. I couldn't upgrade my old PC to Windows 7 either since the specs didn't meet the requirements

[DrHouse64]

I can't remember all the specs but -

When I was very young my father had a Windows 3.1 computer. I knew the DOS commands to launch games like Aladdin, The Lost Vikings and Cannon Fodder.
My grand father was following technology too and had a Windows 95 computer. I also played Jazz Jackrabbit, the Holiday Care 95 extension.
Then my father bought a Windows 98 SE, with the mythic Voodoo 3Dfx card. I played games like Monaco Grand Prix 2, Ceasar III, Harry Potter 1, Toy Story 2... We also subscribed to low speed internet, from 1999 to 2003. My parents unsubscribed because they didn't using internet that much. We only got internet back in 2008. I did not experience the Windows xp, "MSN" and Counter Strike days.

In 2007 my parents got an Acer laptop with Windows Vista. 1 Go RAM, intel core duo 1 GHz maybe? With intel gma graphics. It was terrible xD. But I remember my first steps with emulation, it was good at emulating N64. I tried the first closed source versions of Dolphin with Melee, there was a lot of graphical glitches and 2 FPS, but it was somewhat awesome. Emulating the GameCube ? You're crazy !


After that, this is the "I now have my own computer era", I'll write about it later.

[EblfIYH]

Uh, not so old. Grandma bought the old computer back in 2010, Celeron E3200 2.4GHz, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD and Windows XP. In that time, we didn't have any graphics card and this CPU wasn't compatible with Intel Graphics, so we could barely run anything, and we didn't use it until March 2011. Until we bought in mid 2012 a GeForce 210. We could finally play some modern games released at that time (Saints Row III, Far Cry 3) and light current games (The Sims 4, Resident Evil 6).

And about dolphin, we had a big problem, the 32-bit orbituary. Sadly, we had a 32-bit OS, and dolphin dropped 32-bit support.

Then, the motherbase, the case and the graphics in early 2016 died due to high humidity. (I live near the coast and it's a jungle-like climate where i live.)

We bought the current motherbase, case and CPU in January and we installed Windows 7 64-bits. Then i updated to Windows 10.

Now, my future plans is to buy more RAM, a graphics card, upgrade my CPU and a new HDD.

[slarlac249]

386 with 3.1, first game i played on pc was wolfenstein 3d and it was amazing back then, 2nd game i remember was x-wing alliance, but on a slighly better spec pc for the time, it had a creative labs cdrom drive, think the gpu was a geforce fx or something like that.
was also on dial up internet at the time.

pc after than was a compaq presario (think that's what it was called, spelling may be wrong) and a chunky CRT monitor, was reallllllllly heavy.