PC Zone Ultimate Rig (1995)

I had most of the major pc / cpu / technology upgrades since my XT machine my dad gave me. I had 286, 386, 486, Pentium 75, pentium 100, pentium 133MMX, pentium 166MMX, pentium 200MMX, pentium 2-233MMX, Pentium 2 400mmx, Celeron 433 Flipchip, Pentium 3 450, Pentium 3 600, Pentium 3 733. Then I started working and I bought a P3 1000, then a p4 1.2GHZ, Amd 2000 Athlon, Amd 3200 Athlon, AMD 4800x2, Core 2 Duo E6750, Core 2 Extreme, Phenom X2, Core 2 Quad Q9400.

Same with VGA cards, My first ones being Voodoo2 8MB SLI cards (which I still have in an old win98 dos gaming pc I built)
 
PCs I've had, 386 sx 25, 486 dx 33, dx2 66, P1 MMX 133, AMD K6-2 300, AMD duron 1000, AMD Athlon XP 2000, AMD Athlon 3200, AMD 6000x2, AMD 7750BE, AMD 955 BE
 
Pretty much the same - went from 286 to 486, Pentium 166, Pentium II - then Pentium 4 Kind of fell out of computers now and then... none of my Pentiums had a graphics card - all on board graphics and hoped and prayed some games would work - and some actually did
 
I got my first pc in 1998. It was a p2. Before that I was a sega and nes gamer.
 
Jeez ... now to recall these old things.

IBM XT, 4 MHz, 640KB RAM, 20MB HDD (1991)
386SX, 25 MHz, 8 MB RAM, HDD varied (1993)
486DX2, 33MHz (66 Turbo), 16MB RAM, 512K GFX RAM, HDD varied (1995)
P54CS, 200MHz, 64MB RAM, 1MB Trident GFX, 500MB HDD (Early 1997)
P2 400MHz, 128MB RAM, 8MB Voodoo, 1.2GB HDD (1998)
Celeron 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 32MB Riva TNT2, 15GB HDD (2000)
AMD Athlon 1600+, 512MB RAM, 64MB GeForce, 15GB HDD (2002)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GB RAM, 384MB 8800GTS, 320GB HDD (2007)

That's quite the trip down memory lane .......
 
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Good gravy. I remember playing EPIC games like that game with the little purple and blue plane that dropped bombs and could do flips. Then it went all "Next gen" with games like Test Drive and Scorched Earth, not to mention Prince of Persia! WHOA!

My mother bought my first PC for me in 1996 (Std 6). It was a Pentium MMX 200MHz and it had a 4MB graphics card on it that actually had it's "manually upgradable" RAM slots filled! It was a flippen MONSTER.

As far as consoles are concerned I started with an Atari 2600 (I think) and moved to those "consoles" that had the 100 in 1 games cartridges...ah yes, EXCITE BIKE FTW! After that I moved to a Sega Genesis, then onto a PS1, then to a PS2 and now I'm on a PS3 and XBOX360.

And besides consoles and computers, I am proud to say I was an arcade freak and could beat the pants off of ANYONE in Mortal Kombat. I'd rather not go down my arcade gaming past, too many old games in there which will make me feel ancient. I just clearly remember the very first time when I saw Mortal Kombat. It was in a "porra corner cafe" and I was blown away with the awesomeness of the game.
 
The game you talking about is Sopwith ;-). I remember the first time I heard digitized speech... 1990 Links 386, You hit a tree Jim. First time seeing "photo-realistic" VGA graphics, Mean Streets 1989. Playing Battle of Britian on an EGA machine where the water was actually blue 1988. Only consoles we had was the NES, Master System and the Megadrive.
 
I have been a IT junkie from 1991 but never really had the money to buy me a pc of my own. In 1996 i took the plunge and bought me the following:

P1 200mmx
socket 462 motherboard with 4mb onboard graphics (i think)
32mb memory EDO shared with display
2gb Harddrive
CD-Rom
Auwa case and 14" screen

Got a AOE and commando's with it and i was the proud owner of a kickass system!

Not really but i felt like the king of the world.
 
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The game you talking about is Sopwith ;-). I remember the first time I heard digitized speech... 1990 Links 386, You hit a tree Jim. First time seeing "photo-realistic" VGA graphics, Mean Streets 1989. Playing Battle of Britian on an EGA machine where the water was actually blue 1988. Only consoles we had was the NES, Master System and the Megadrive.
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YES! Sopwith! Well done you old biscuit!!! :D
 
I've decided to no longer buy pc's or anything related to tech for that matter! Imagine 15 years from now when my mid range pc will be scoffed at :(
 
my first pc was a 386 sx 33, with win 3.1 4 megs ram and a 20 meg mfm hdd oh and a monochrome orange/black monitor. the starfield simulation screensaver was the shiz
 
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