The Lizard's computer history.

[Taskmaster]

Funny, you should mention that because I just asked you what your system was on the other thread...

TRS80 Model I with tape drive, then external diskette drive that would reboot the computer if the table shook too much.

TRS80 Model II, which had the 8 inch floppy drives, and a model III, which had the 5 1/4 diskette drive built in. I still remember a game called Asylum, with it's BW line graphics. Pretty amazing back then.

Apple IIe - played my first Ultima (2 or 3) on that baby.

TI99a, Timex Sinclair (the wafer thin computer), Commodore 64, Atari 400/800.

Note: I did not own the above just used them at school/college. I did own these below..

Tandy Color Computer 4K with tape drive, put in my own power indicator (green diode) and front mounted reset button. Upgrade to 16K. To get 32K you had to piggy back a second set of 16K chips saudered(sp?) right on top of the other ones.

25mhz 386 Northgate full tower - cost me $5000 for top of the line back then! Had a whopping 100MB hard drive!

Micron P1 90mhz

Gateway P3 500mhz

In between I've upgrade pieces and parts for my computers, my sister's computers and the church computers. I get fairly good at hardware.

OK, that's my PC history... We'll fore go the main frame side of it. /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif




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[Lizard Of Oz]

This is a meaningless spam-post, BUT I predict it will become an at-least 2 page thread.

Lizard's Computer History

1979 - Commador Vic-20 with a cassette tape drive.
1985 - Tandy TR1000 (80286) 3.5" floppy, no hard-drive, 14" VGA Monitor, 640k RAM.
1987 - No-name 386-25mhz. 3.5" floppy, 80mb HD, 14" VGA Hundia Monitor, 1mb RAM, Windows 3.1.
1990 - No-name up-graded to a 486-25mhz and 1mb RAM, Trident SVGA card.
1992 - No-name up-graded to a 486-100mhz and 4mb RAM and 16" NEC 4a monitor.
1994 - No-name's guts stuck in an old Northgate computer full tower case. 500mb HD, 1x CDROM
1995 - No-name up-graded to a SuperMicro MB and a P1-120mhz and 32mb RAM 1.1gb HD 4X CDROM
1997 - No-name up-graded to another SuperMicro MB and P1-300mhz with MMX. Matrox video. 3.2gb HD, 8X CDROM.
1998 - No-name up-graded to SuperMicro Full tower ATX case. Asus P2B-S MB, PII-450mhz, 256mb SDRAM, 19" Sony Monitor, 2x10gb HD, 32X CDROM. Matrox Video with Voodoo 2-SLI. Flirted with Various TNT2 cards, stuck with the Voodoo3-3K.
1999 -Named computer "Zilla" Upgraded to Asus K7M MB, K7-700mhz, Voodoo3-3k.
2000 - Hmmmmm. I see gigahertz and scuzzy (SCSI) in Zilla's future.


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"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard - nguid = 108675



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[Lizard Of Oz]

It'll never reach 2 pages at this rate. Go ahead amit it, you (all of you) once had a Packard Bell. /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard- nguid = 108675

 

[Voyd-]

this thread is for old dudes /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

got my first comp in '96, a p75,16mb ram,1mb s3 video card
then a p233, 32mb ram, 2mb matrox card
now a 450A,128mb ram,Voodoo3

boring huh.

 

[Zaccix]

Ummmm, well my first comp was a C64 with tape drive back in '90. I took it back after a week and got a MegaDrive instead though (nothing against the C64, just that I wanted a MD /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif )

In '91 I got an Amiga 500 (which was bloody awesome back then!) and after going through a few 500's I got a 500+ from a m8 who got it with a monitor and just needed the monitor.

My most recent purchase was this PC I'm using now - an Advent (yeah I can see all of you saying "who?" /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif ) 8270 with 400mhz Celeron, 64mb of ram, ATI Xpert98 card etc. etc.

OK there's more to it than that but I'm not in a brain-racking mood at the moment /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

To hell with Y2K, I'm worried about my 56K.

 

[L_S]

Apple ][
Apple IIgs
486, 450mb harddrive, 8 meg ram
p133,16 meg ram, 1.4 gig harddrive
PII 333, 128mb ram, 8 gig harddrive, voodoo 3
p3 650, 256 meg ram, 27 gig harddrive, voodoo3

If you have any problems with what I just said then I welcome you to click here.

 

[Wendy]

We must be on the same wavelength, because I was gonna start pretty much the same post /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif

(circa 1980) Sinclair ZX81 (1kb RAM standard, 16k with the add-on pack) (still have this comp.)
(circa 1983) Atari 800XL (sweet games on that badboy, rampant piracy tho) (gave to my uncle, his kids may still have it)
summer 1988 Amiga 500 (since upgraded with extra RAM and OS ROM) (still have it, haven't turned it on on 3 years) (also I get Amazing Amiga magazine from time to time to keep up)
1995 Dell laptop 486-66 (still have it, played lots of DOOM on that sucker)
June 98 - this computer Gateway P2-333 (have upgraded many parts by now)
few months ago - Pentium 120 (to mess around with, got it for free, haven't hooked it up yet, gotta clean my room. Gonna install OS/2 on that sucka) WINBLOWS SUX! /~unreal/ubb/html/frown.gif

Enjoy! Let's get this post going. We should require all PuF to post here.

You walk the thin line between glory and despair, soon you shall cross over it.

 

[Lizard Of Oz]

I once made the mistake of trying OS/2. Seems to me that it is just about as dead as any OS can get. Were I you, and I'm not, I'd give Linux (Lee-nucks) a shot. If anything it's growing, not dying, and there's a ton of FREE software availible on the net.

I actually like Windows. What choice have I got, an Apple? Bwa-ha-ha-ha..

BTW, I knew a guy who had some sort of Amiga back in the late 80's. You're right, they were pretty amazing. That's what convinved me to buy the 386-25. After I had dumped the Tandy on a unsuspecting friend. I went to a store and looked at the software availible for the Amiga and "IBM-Clone," and ordered the 386-25.

"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard- nguid = 108675



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[wiz4ha]

-= i never owned these comps, i just used them all the time=-

C64 - 1987 to 1992 (Had the Ghostbusters and orignal Choplifter one it! Whoot!)

486/66 - 1992 to 1997. This baby had a sweet total of 8MB RAM. 100MB harddrive space. Used at old school.

Pentium 100 - 1994 to 1997. 16MB Ram 250MB harddrive space (for each person using it).

Pentium 133 - Ocassionally used in past. 32MB RAM, 7.6 gig hard drive.

Intel Celeron 300 - 1998 to present. 32MB RAM, each person gets 300MB of storage space. Used at school.

Used a Mac once to do a project in a course known as Lab 2000 or Technology.

-= This is my current computer =-

January 1998 to present - PII/233, 32MB RAM, 2.4 gig hard drive filled with tons of games, hard to believe, but it is, 24X CD ROM drive, Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold soundcard, a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. It's all good until the middle of January when i start buying upgrades. heres what I plan to have:

ABIT BE6-II motherboard
Pentium III - 733Mhz
256MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Teac Floppy Drive
Western Digital 27.3 Gig Hard Drive
Acer 50X CD-ROM
Acer CD-RW (6 Write X 6 Re-Write X 32 Read)
Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer
Klipsch ProMedia v.2-400 speakers
Diamond SupraMax 56K Faxmodem (Bilingual) (This will do for now, until Cable modems come)
In-Win Q500 Full Tower
19' NEC Monitor


Theres my History.

WiZ
Smiley Games




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[Lizard Of Oz]

Damn wiz4ha! And I thought my system was over-kill. /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard- nguid = 108675



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[Taskmaster]

Yes, but how many of you have had the fortune to operate an IBM 43-81 mainframe, with 4 online DASD (direct access storage devices), two tape drives and two high speed line printers (that sound like rail guns)?

What just me? /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

In my college days....

Visit my website: http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/realm/2980

 

[Lizard Of Oz]

I have delt with a IBM AS/400.

"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard- nguid = 108675

 

[Dr.Quake]

hmmmmmm well lets see
i owned the apple wiz4ha played choplifter on and man what a game! i loved that game.
then we move onto the vic 20 with its amazing tape drive and juipiter lander game, an instant classic.
Next we move into the 486 era with its amazing 415mb HD and 2 speed cd rom drive. It displayed the games beautifuly on its 15" 256 colour monitor. but it could at least play quake and doom two classics in their own.
after that i was given a beaut of a 386 ps2 hehe that thing can barely run ms word. hehehe.
and finally the big finish, a p2 350mHz with 64mb or ram a voodoo3 3000 (oh so sweet), 56k modem and my personal fav a mouse with a wheel for scroling. man what a rush!

Dr.Quake
"The doctor is in"
Smileygames.8m.com

 

[wiz4ha]

heheh. overkill? maybe. i was just readin that intel just released the PIII/800. hmmmm

ill probably stick with p3/733.

i played choplifter on your mac dr. quake? no, i think i played it at my aunts, but maybe i also played at your house. isn't that thing an Apple II?

oh yes, i also used a 386/25mhz which a funky colored version of wheel of fortune on it.

what memories. ah...

WiZ
Smiley Games

"What is Mind? No Matter.
What is Matter? Never Mind"

 

[Morgan]

Just helping to make this thread reach those 2 pages:

XT 8086 w/ EGA (whoohoo, 4 bit colors!!!)
AT 286 w/ VGA (whoohoo, 8 bit colors!!!)
486SX w/ SVGA (whoohoo, 16 bit colors!!!)
486DX w/ SVGA (whoohoo, 16 bit colors!?!)
P133 w/SVGA (whoohoo, 16 bit colors???)
P233 w/ SVGA (whoohoo, 24 bit colors!!!)
pIII(500) w/V3-3K (whoohoo, 32 bit colors!!!)

... and whoohoo knows what the future might bring...

Yeah lady, You and the IRS...



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[Taskmaster]

What... not two pages yet... I only have so much old computer trivia to talk about. So I need to make this a long one without really having to type to much!

I had to use punched cards (80 column) when doing Fortran. Feed the cards to a Buroughs 1955 mainframe (1955 is the model number althought I joke it was the year it was built!) and then wait an hour or more to get the output.

I still have a few of those programs I wrote on punched cards to show the grand kids one day...

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[Lizard Of Oz]

Another Lizard Prediction™ has come ture. Nostradomus was an amatuer. /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

"There is no point in tip-toeing through life to get safely to death."
"Whom ever sacrifices freedom for security get's nor deserves either."

-Lizard Of Oz -aka- {PuF}Lizard- nguid = 108675

 

[Wolf Blackstar]

Discovered this post a little late, but...

<LI>1989:
ALR 386/sx,(25Mhz) 640k RAM, 40MB hard drive, brand new hi-density 3.5" disk drive. Woo-hooo!
Hours spent trying to beat Falcon 2.0 at Colonel difficulty.

<LI>1994:
486 DX2-66, 8 MB RAM, 120 MB hard drive, 2x CD-ROM drive.

Doom is released. all chaos ensues.


<LI>1995:
upgrade to 486 DX4-100 and 24 MB RAM, 420 MB hard drive.

have friends bring their computer over for 1on1 null modem cable Doom2 showdowns.

<LI>1997
Intel Pentium 200Mhz MMX, 32 MB RAM, 1.5 gig hard drive. 24x CD-ROM drive. Matrox MGA Millenium video card.

1 year later, Unreal is released. More long hours in the night.

<LI>1998:
AMD K6 233 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, 3.5 gig hard drive, Diamond Monster Fusion video card.

Cranking out skins for Quake2 and SiN.

One day, massive head crash ensues, resulting in loss of all skins except 1. When data cannot be recovered, offending hard drive is used for target practice with Colt .45.

<LI>1999-present
AMD K6-2 400 Mhz, 96 megs RAM, 13.6 gig hard drive, 42x CD-ROM drive, Voodoo3 200 AGP video card.

UT is released. New addiction. Discovers PU forums on 12/13/99.

-Wolf Blackstar

"A chainsaw! find some meat!"



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