Out of boredom, I counted up just how many computers I've owned over the years - It turned out to be quite a few, so I thought I'd share my list with you

(Links are to info at Old-Computers.com, btw).


Commodore Amiga A500
Paving slab sized Motorola M68000 powered home office/gaming machine
Number owned: 5, between 1989 & 2003
Number thrown away due to being FUBAR: 1

Commodore Amiga A500+
As A500, but with extra RAM & enhanced chipset
Number owned: 2, between 2001 & 2003

Commodore Amiga A600/A600HD
As A500+ but with a smaller case, less keys & and an optional internal hard drive
Number owned: 3, between 1993 & present (currently 1)

Commodore Amiga A1200/A1200HD
As A600 but with M68020 CPU, improved chipset & more keys
Number owned: 3, between 2001 & present (currently 2 {one in a tower case})

Commodore Amiga B2000
As A500 but in a desktop case w/ separate keyboard
Number owned: 1, c 1990

Amiga CDTV
Number owned: 1, c 1991
As A500 but in a hi-fi lookalike case, with a built in caddy-loading CDROM drive with separate keyboard & floppy drive.
The thing I remember most about my CDTV was the size of the box it came in. The pic on the outside showed a monitor as part of the setup, at the box certainly looked big enough to include one ... but it didn't, just a mountain of polystyrene inserts & inner boxes.

Overall failure rate for Amigas: 1 out of 15 (6.7%)


Commodore C64C
MOS 6510A CPU powered game machine (with a kb), 64 KB of RAM, and a tape drive
Number owned: 1, c 1995


Amstrad PCW8256
Z80 powered, CP/M OS havin' all in one home office kit - green screen monitor housing the motherboard and a single 3" (really) floppy drive, separate keyboard (no mouse) & a printer. A PC of the time would have kicked its arse, but with software & a printer would have cost 5 times as much.
Number owned: 1, from 1990 to 1996
Failure rate: 1 of 1 (100%)


Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Tiny, Zilog Z80 CPU powered home computer; notorious for its rubber keyboard (which didn't bother me) on which you couldn't just _type_ BASIC commands on, you had to use a Vulcan nerve grip of 3 keys for each one
Number owned: 1, from 1983 to 1994


PC
You know what a PC is, right?
Number owned: 5, between 1996 and present (2/3 at present)
Number thrown away due to being FUBAR and/or obselete: 2 (40%)



That makes a total of 23 computers in 21 years - I don't know whether to be impressed or appalled. On the plus side, 6 of those 23 are still in use (or capable of it), 11 were sold on in working order, and only 4 were scrapped.... And 11 of the total were bought on eBay for peanuts

Still, that's a lot of computers - good job I didn't count games consoles too

Now all you have to do is figure out how much money you invested in all your pcs

amd k-6 333mhz w/ 4gig hd 32mb pc100 ram

p4 1.6ghz 60gig 768 2100 ram

amd barton 2500+ 3200 512 ram

hmmmm lemme see here, in the order that I built them...

MSI MS-5169 Ver 4.0
K6-2 450 @ 550
256mb PC-133
ATi Rage Pro Turbo 8mb AGP

Gigabyte GA-7IXEH
Duron 850 @ 962
1 gig PC-133
P3 cooler modded 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 @ 190 / 206 (Hyundai RAM )

DFI K6XV3
K6-2 500 @ 550 (they're all 550's when you think about it )
128MB PC-100
Trident 9750 w/TV Out
7 LAN cards, it's my fileserver / router

DFI AZ-30 TL
Duron 1.4 GHz @ 1603Mhz stable
768MB DDR PC2100
Radeon 9000 w/RAMsinks and a 50MM Sunon GPU fan + 3dfx Voodoo 2 1000 'Black Magic' 12mb

Abit BP6
Dual Celeron 466
650MB PC-133
ATi Rage Pro Turbo 8mb from my first machine

DFI K6BV3
K6-2+ 550, yes, you heard me, the uber-rare K6-2+ 128K L2 cache version
512MB PC-100
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 + Diamond 3D Monster Voodoo 2 12MB

Dell Optiplex GX200
P3 1 GHz
256MB Rambus
FX5200 PCI

Still have them all and all still work.

Work in progress...

Asus P4T
P4 1.4
512MB Rambus
ELSA Gloria II 64MB (Quadro 2 chipset)

MSI K8T
dual Opteron 140
2 gig DDR400
Quadro FX1000

I'm not going to recount how many computers I have been through. I'll say this, it's definatly over 10. Ranging from a Tandy 1000EX to an AMD K5 150Mhz to a Duron 1.8. Currently, I have 3, plus the family computer. Ok, I am recounting.

Tandy 1000EX - bought (95?)
AMD K5 150Mhz - bought (97) - 1.2GB, 16MB, 8X CD
Pentium 200Mhz - laid around, until I sold it - 32MB, 350MB hd
Pentium 2 233Mhz - given to me broken, scrapped for parts
Pentium 2 300Mhz - see above
Pentium 3 800Mhz - custom (2004) - 256MB, 350MB hd (from Pentium 200), 40X CD
Celeron 466Mhz - custom (2004) - 128MB
Celeron 1.3Ghz - family pc, bought - 256MB, 40 & 30GB
Duron 1.3Ghz - custom (2002) was fried - 384MB, 30GB, Radeon 7200 32MB,
Duron 1.8Ghz - custom (2003) - see signature

[edit] my current rigs are all on my website. you'll have to look in my sig for the link, its camofluaged.

Ain't no way.

I can remember some of the more notable ones, but that's about it. My favorite of all time was my Pentium Pro 200, what a rock solid and rockin' rig that was.

I can't say what my favorite was, it's a draw between my Duron 850 and my GX200.

The 850 was a real looker at LAN parties but the GX200, though pretty boring looking, is the most stable and rock-solid thing I have ever owned, and the cheapest, paid 120 for the video card in it, the rest was free in a field with about 200 GX110's.

lets see ... my first puter i got around 96 i guess..before i moved to us..it was an amd and tahts about all i know about it...

then wen i moved to us, i bought compaq 733mhz..it broke 2 days later, returned and got an hp 800mhz

after that i build my own rig 1600+, then moved to duron 1.4? after taht i got the 2.4b ...i aso got a lan box now its a 2200+

Hmmm, this was hardcore top of the line when i got it in 2000..i think..

P3 1.1GHz
512Mbs pc133
Geforce2 Ti400
30Gb HD

And now my second rig....

2400+@ 2250MHz
512mb Dual Channel PC3200
9600XT
80Gb HD/40Gb HD

Hmmm, I wonder if I can remember back that far.....ok, I guess I can. (in order or co-order)

Commodore VIC-20 w/ tape drive and I think 8MB RAM, hooked to the TV rather than a monitor
TRS-80 w/ green monochrome monitor
Generic (I think) 8086 w/ gold monochrome
IBM 286 ?MHz
K6-2 300MHz rig (traded mobo and CPU to J-Dogg last year)
Slot-A Athlon 600MHz
My current rig w/ Shuttle AN35/N Ultra and XP2000+ and HyperX RAM