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Inspired by the other new computer threads, and people saying what is and isn't a waste of money, it made me recall the computers that I/my family have owned.
1995(ish): Pentium 90 with 16 mb of ram. I don't recall the HD size but this was $4000 computer my dad bought. I played war2, diablo, starcraft primarily. I really got into the games Interstate 76 and quake 2 which ran terribly and I began considering getting a diamond monster 3dfx card, but eventually we upgraded to:
between 1997-99: a p2 233 mhz 64 mb of ram piece of shit. It was bought at a crappy little store, for about $1700. The video card was some ATI thing that wouldn't work for any games, and they refused to fix it because they only care if it the computer could run windows 98, which it could. I bought a Riva TNT video card for it, and it overheated constantly. This was remedied by fixing a 486 CPU fan onto the heatsink. The colored lighting in Quake 2 was godly. I played the shit out of Action Quake 2 on this computer. The soundcard also didn't work, and I would play all games with no sound, with a cd player beside my desk listening to cds
1999-2003: This was the first PC bought just for me by my parents. I picked most of the parts. It was a p3 800 mhz, 128mb of ram and a Geforce 2 MX. I wanted a Geforce 1, but they gave me the MX for the same price cause they ran out. The CPU died and when we brought it in they claimed the motherboard was dead too, and we replaced both and I ended up with a 1ghz cpu. They kind of scammed us. This PC was my Half Life machine,
I got HL on a whim for 9.99 before Counterstrike came out, because I wanted to play Action Half Life. AHL turned out awful, and CS became a huge addiction. I would basically come home from school, listen to music, and play CS. This also denotes a time in my life when I was anorexic, I would eat 1 piece of plain toast for breakfast and a pack of ramen for dinner with a diet coke. I would watch Seinfeld at 10 pm and go to bed on the weekdays. It's pretty funny that I remember that now because of the PC. I also played Everquest at some point, towards the end of this computers life.
2003-2005: The first PC I bought with my own money. Athlon 2400 xp, 512 mb of ram, ATI Radeon 9500 PRO, Asus A7N8X Motherboard, 20 gb hard drive, and a 80 gb one I got for my birthday. I spent 2200 on it with a 17 inch monitor. The money I got from selling items in Everquest for real life cash. I made about $5,000 total, mostly from buying/selling items in game, and then selling the platinum (eq currency) on ebay. I borrowed an online friends credit card to sign up to ebay, and ran up a lot of service charges for him which I didn't pay back for a while. One of the shittiest things I've done in my life. Someone had enough trust in me online to lend me their credit card, and I started ignoring them instead of paying them for the charges ebay put on his card for listing items. I did pay him back a year or two later. I still feel bad for doing that to a friend though.
This PC was Half Life machine #2. I played a lot of Natural Selection on this, it was a HL mod that was pretty demanding hardware wise. I had this computer when WoW was released, I was in the beta and it ran like ass with 512 mb. I also upgraded to a 9800 pro at some time, which was an awesome card.
2005 to present: This was the computer I built myself, I think it was about $1700 at the time. Athlon 4200 xp, evga 8800 GT, 2 gb of ram, 250 gb HD. It's kind of showing its age but I probably won't upgrade unless I'm unhappy with how SC2 runs.
 
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I had some old IBM when I was like 7 (1991?), no clue the specs but it was VGA and it ran this shitty game called playroom and other cheap games like carmen sandiego. 3.5' floppy drive and shady old mouse, no windows just DOS lol. Not sure how much my dad paid for it. I remember the prodigy arpanet or whatever it was, lol so ghetto. Computer is long gone.
1998 we got an Emachine windows comp that was win98, 600mhz? p2?, 4gb HD, onboard graphics that struggled to run d2 (full install took up like 2/3 of the HD lol). came with a ball mouse, no Cd burner and couldn't even play DVDs. Dad had it in storage forever and recently gave it to me lol, its sitting in my living room. I beleive my dad paid 700$+ for this one with monitor and printer.
2004ish I bought a hp pavillion a500n, and I also bought a gefore3 vid card to run quake 3 and other FPS games. The specs were like athlon xp 2800+ which was like 2ghz, 60gb hd, CD burner/dvd player, 512 ram, (eventually got more). The mobo and HD died and I couldn't get an old socket A board to replace so the comp is sitting in my living room too T_T. Bought just the tower and the card for about 550$ which my dad loaned me and I repaid.
2007
built my first comp after tons of reading and comparing and finally a very anxious wait for intel to drop price on their CPUs that July. I made a bunch of threads here on TL and pretty much put it together myself. (except for 1 stupid wire I forgot to attach and had to bring to my buddy's house where we troubleshot it >.<) I missed some horny girl's Bday that night too and it was totally an IRL failure day.
Spent about 800$ after rebates and all. Scrapped lots of old parts from previous comp.
Specs here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=55636
Ended up buying a new DVD burner since.
PS- page 2 is izzycraft's first posts and they were so bad that he went and removed them haha
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Believe it or not, I've owned just two in my lifetime:
A really shitty HP that had like 64 MB of ram, a Pentium 3 and on board graphics. I spent most of the days of my youth enjoying fastest, BGH and UMS on battle.net with my friends on this machine. Maybe a little D2 here and there. I had no idea if other PC games existed and I could have cared less lol.
Then around 2007 I bought a little laptop for myself, nothing special, just with more RAM and a faster processor. In fact, its what I'm using right now. It's kind of annoying because I know I'll have to upgrade when Starcraft 2 comes out.
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1996---1998?: A 486 that was uppgraded by my bro at least one time. It sucked ( 66mhz i guess )
-Probably 4Mo Ram then 8 or 16 after the uppgrade lol
-13 or 14" tube
- hardrive unknown probably < 700 Mo even after the uppgrade
But man:
-Raptor
-Commander Keen !!!!!!!!!!!
-Doom
Cries :'(
1998?---2000?
Pentium166 MMX ( 166mhz )
S3 Virge
32(?) EDO ram
Same 13 or 14" tube
700mo then 4Go hard drive
2000?-----20009:
K7-500 mhz
GeForce1
192 SDram
Hard drive i think it was a 40Go ( crashed ) then a 80Go.
My 17" tube died so now i use a 14" haha
Soundblaster 16, same speakers than on my 486 :D
WOW optic mouse !
I probably won't buy a new comp because 99% of the new games are garbage.
But maybe if SC2 or Dx3 don't suck ( i highly doubt they will be better than bw or Dx lol )
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1996: 66Mhz, Windows 95 with a huuuge built in games collection. Games like Tempest, Battlezone, lots of classics. Computer used mostly for CIvilization I and II, along with Myst. When Riven comes out in 1997 I ask my dad if he'll buy it for us. He says not right now. I ask when, and he says "In the year 2000." Obviously he's trying to blow me off.
1999: Windows 98, 8 gigs of HD (omg), pentium 2, we finally figure out what the internet is. We never get dialup, go straight for high speed. I accidentally visit a porn site for the first time. Civilization II loads more quickly in the pentium 2, and that's all my dad cares about since he plays the game 4 fucking hours a day. We have an amazing graphics card but it overheats instantly when burdened. We do not realize the cause of the hitches for another 5 years. In 2000 I remind my dad of his promise. He does not remember and refuses to buy the game.
2003: I get a computer for high school. It's much faster than the home computer, with an Athlon 2400+ processor and 512MB of RAM. It also has an AGP slot. I buy an ATI 9600XT and it changes my life forever. You mean I can play FPSs that aren't on a console? Before then, the only PC FPS i had played was Chex Quest. After overclocking my card, I realize what has been wrong with the house's video card all these years. I point this out to my dad but he doesn't replace it.
2004: My parents get a computer for home. It is slightly better than mine, but with no video card.
2006: My dad takes the 1999 computer to Saudi Arabia with him because that's "all he needs" while he's deployed. Weirdo.
2007: I build my own computer. It sucks and overheats all the time. It can't open Fallout 3 without crashing to the desktop, even today. I vow to buy a cheap Compaq and plop a video card inside it, like I did last time. Much simpler, and often cheaper.
2009:Like 3 members of my family get laptops. Not me, bitches. You can't have a cheap gaming laptop. I FINALLY DOWNLOAD RIVEN! It sucks. I guess Dad was right.
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I use to have a laptop. Now I have a more different laptop.
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90s: I don't remember much about this computer, but it was OLD school. We had a ZYXEL modem, dialup connection of course, which varied in speed, usually either 7200 or 4800kbps. I remember one time it hit 9600kbps and i was so fucking psyched!!! of course now 56,000kbps (56k) is the subject of jokes everywhere..
used to play lode runner on it, man that was fun.
my memory sucks, but there was some celeron computer, some other stuff like P2, P3.. 768MB ram at one point.. I'm not even sure of the specs of the current computer @ home. damn how can you guys remember so much details
06 I got my current laptop, dell e1505 which I'm sporting to this day. T2600 (2.16GHz), X1400, 1GB of ram, booya!
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1998:
We got our first "real" computer as a deal from my parents workplace, a Pentium 2 450mhz, riva tnt 1, 128mb ram. Me and my brother were so happy that day, the first thing we did after we got it was to head down to the local store and grab two games from the box with old and nonpopular games to reduced price.
I still remember those two games: Liberation day and Shadow warrior(who wanna some wang?).
Prior to this computer we've mostly been using old and used comps from relatives and our parent's friends.
2003:
I finally bought my own comp:
2,4gz amd athlon
512mb ram(upgraded later to 1gb)
80gb HD
Ati radeon 9600 pro.
Logitech mx500
It felt great having my own comp and not having to share it with my four siblings.
2006:
I bought my current comp.
Amd athlon 4200 dual-core
Ati radeon x1900
2gb DDR2 ram
Two HDs, one 400gb and one 250gb.
Logitech G5
Funny note: I've never payed for my monitors either I've gotten them from relatives or I've taken some of those me and my brother "found" at the local dump for electronics. It's crazy what people throw away these days, we've found 3-4 monitors, ~4 keyboards, several working old comps and even some nice bicycles(at the dump for metalproducts nearby).
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1992-? - An old, old, old Macintosh computer with the original lemmings on it. There were also some really goofy animations and whatnot on it. It came with a 2400 baud modem.
1994-1996 - Possibly a 286, but I'm not sure. Had a slow speed and a fast speed, slow being 4MHz and fast being 25MHz. 500mb HDD, 4MB of RAM, came with Windows 3.11 on it. I played Tank and Doom on this computer.
1996 - 486. 16 MB of RAM. Windows 95 on it. I think it was 80 MHz or so. Still played Doom, tried out AOL for the first time.
1998 - My first computer that belonged to me. Some sort of eMachine, back when I thought eMachine was good. Came with 64 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 128 (!)). Voodoo 3dfx 16MB Graphics card. Windows 98 preloaded. I played Starcraft, Diablo II, and Unreal Tournament primarily.
2004 - Yesterday - My first computer that I built. Windows XP, 1GB of RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 (Later upgraded to an NVidia 6800 GT). Still played Starcraft, and played Unreal Tournament/Diablo II off and on. Also played Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, Doom III, Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2.
2009 - Present - Second Computer I built. See thread. Built this computer for Left4Dead and Starcraft II, and also to be future proof. Also wanted a large ePenis again.
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I'm just going to post a sob story about how I can't maintain a connection with a computer...
And keep in mind, my dad is a mac fanboy (Me being an enthusiast. There's a difference)
1997: Power Macintosh 9600 (I think that's the right number). I played children's number + math games. Also had a REALLY old version of Tomb Raider, but couldn't get it to work. This was also the computer with arrow keys in a line, rather than in the logical shape.
2000: iMac SE (Grey). I honestly don't remember what I did with this one except that my mom took it because she needed one, due to her screwing hers up somehow.
2002: iBook G3. This is the computer I extended my RuneScape addiction with. Mostly just internet games. I think I play the StarCraft demo with this one, though I never had the actual game.
2003: PowerBook G4: I finally got my *own* computer. All of the past ones were shared with other members of my family. On this one, I have had until recently. Played internet games, runescape, and not much else.
2005: iMac G5: Once again, this was supposed to be my good computer, but it was used as a movie center because I had the largest screen. I didn't end up using it much. My mom ended up taking this one for her office, so I was left with the laptop.
2006: Mac Mini with a 24" screen. It was supposed to be a home media center, though I was the lucky one with it in my room. First Intel mac I ever had, so I booted up windows, and played Maplestory, Gunbound, and a few other random MMOs.
2008 PowerBook G4. No, I did not get a new one, but it became my main computer because my Mac Mini was taken on account of my dad needing to set up a server. I <3 this computer. I have been using it, it's 768MB of RAM, and 1Ghz processor. My dad's old laptop died on account of being ridiculously old and being kept very badly. He took this computer, so I was left with none.
2009 MacBook Pro. Once again, the computer that saved me from having none. This is one with a sexy unibody of solid aluminum, a great speed, and dual booting, so I can *finally* load ChaosLauncher + iCCup and play SC to feed my addiction. It's a nice computer  .
Sidenote: On my Mac mini, while it lasted, though I could boot windows, the screen had issues so I could only play SC in a tiny, tiny screen. The same thing happened with MapleStory as well, but thanks to resizable windowed mode, that fear went away. I couldn't play very many games on it, due to this problem.
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386
IBM AMD450
Compaq P3 550
Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop
Latest I built: Q6600 2.4GHz || 4GB 1066MHz DDR2 || Gigabyte Aurora 3D Case || 780i SLI Mobo || 9800GTX+ || 4x 500GB 7200RPM Caviars
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-486
-pentium 1
-some comp with a geforce 2 card that owned really badly which is now replaced with a 9800se radeon card
-4ghz geforce 6800 comp (well not really mine, moreso my brother's but he often shared it)
-quad4.2ghz with 8600gts 256mb
-laptop
using the last 2 now, though I hardly ever play so it's mostly the laptop
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