What kinds of computers have you owned?

[Ricky]

This should be a trip through time. List all of the computers you've ever owned, including PC's if applicable. Here's my history of my owned computers...

Mac Plus (Named "Slowpoke") - Technically it wasn't a Mac Plus, but a 512k upgraded to Mac Plus stats. It had 2 megs of RAM, and came with System 1.1 on an 800K floppy. I upgraded it with a 20 meg Apple HD that plugged into the disk drive slot, and installed System 6.0.8 on it, kept it for awhile, and then put System 7.0 on it. It still works, it's in my grandparent's basement with an additional 20 meg daisychained to the first one!

Mac II (Named "Greased Lightning") - Oh man, this was my pride and joy. It was worked on by CRAY Supercomputer. It had a 256 color card when I got it, along with a 33 MHz 68040 accelerator. It was FAST. It ran System 7 like a dream. Came with 16 megs of RAM and a 80 meg drive. Two 800 K floppies. This one was never expanded.

Performa 6200CD (Named "Greased Lightning II") - The first and last Mac I would own that came with a 1.4 MB disk drive built in. 75 MHz PowerPC 603(?) with a 4x CD-ROM, 40 megs RAM and a 1 GB HD. Despite what I named it, it really wasn't that fast. It ran System 7.5 at first, then I brought it up to OS 8.1.

Strawberry iMac Rev. C (Named "Daedalus") - I had this one for around two years, and it served me well. It's the first computer I bought, I paid $500 for it. Started with 32 MB RAM, upgraded to 96, and upgraded again to 160 megs. I could not get to the bottom RAM slot, otherwise it would have gone from 96 to 192. 6 GB HD, 24x CD-ROM. It started with OS 8.5, and was upgraded from there to OS 9 and X. (Around this time is when I had joined MacOSX.com.) I got a Wacom Graphire for it along with a USB floppy drive.

Lime iMac DV Slot Load (Named "Cybele") - My current computer. I put OS 9 and X on this one as well. It was upgraded from 64 MB RAM to 192, and I have just recently put in a 40 GB drive in place of my old 10 GB one. Spacious. This one has a Wacom Graphire on it as well. 400 MHz, with a slot loading 4x DVD/24x CD-ROM.

Your turn!

[Androo]

G3
Named: Slow as Shit

and now an iMac Blue Dalmation
Named: My Home

[voice-]

Some Amiga. Actually, my dad owned it, but it counts as it was my introduction to computers.

Performas, iMacs and PowerMacs + one self-built Pentium 3 computer hav come later, check my sig.

[xaqintosh]

macintosh performa 6300cd (named: taken apart )

iMac 350 mhz blueberry

LCD iMac 800

[Captain Code]

2 IIcis, a G4 and a 604e

All good machines, and 3/4 of them still work. The PS in onen IIci blew and it's not worth fixing.

[Dusky]

My brother and I had recently arrived to USA (from Mexico) when we passed by a store (Radio Shack?) and my father told us that one day he'd buy us a computer. It seemed too distant a reality... and it in fact was.

Around 1992... I had an IBM PC Jr that ran some version of DOS. I couldn't do anything with it, but I remember my brother seemed to entertain himself viewing its directory over and over again.

Then came the Tandy 1000. With that I was a bit more productive. I managed to learn a two argument code to change the color of the screen. :sarcasm: Nah, with that computer I developed an interest for BASIC... the language that years later I'd use to program my TI82, TI92, and finally, my TI89.

Then came my first Mac... the best Mac I could find at The Good Guys... The Performa 575. Total cost... over 2,000... more expensive than anything else my family had owned in America up to that point. I was only 16 years old, and I'd come home from my Saturday cheap-labor job... I'd cry in front of it... knowing that I'd have to spend 50 Saturdays doing a job I detested only to come home and be able to do nothing more than play Tetris... sad times. I regretted having bought a computer... a mac, at least.

Something went wrong with my Performa... so I took it in for service. After a few weeks being serviced... I was asked to come and pick a new one because it had been further damaged while it was being serviced. My choices were a Performa 6100... and Performa 6200CD. Big numbers seemed good... I chose the latter. That was sometime in '95-'97

The 6200CD was replaced by my iMac G3 400DV back in August 2000. The iMac, in turn, was recently replaced by my latest baby... my iBook 16MB Vram, 700Mhz, 14.1" screen, 30Ghz HD, equipped with airport.

Of all the computers I've had, the one that held the deepest spot in my heart for such a long time is my Performa 6200CD. Sadly, for the past two or three years it's been resting in my garage. The keyboard is missing keys... the monitor died after flickering for so long... but I couldn't just have thrown that computer away before because it holds memories (saved E-mails and Instant Messages) of a great relationship I had with a girl I met in the net... my first love...

Oh, I almost forgot... prior to getting my iMac DV400, I gave PCs a shot and got me an HP. I used the thing for less than a month... I felt uncomfortable using Windows. Man... I can't believe I was a PC guy for almost a month... what the [bleep] was I thinking? hehe

My next computer will have to be the best Mac laptop I can afford. That will have to wait a year or two.. since I currently have Apple's best iBook. But hmm... somebody offered me Apple's best Powerbook for $1500... tempting...

[azosx]

Many PCs, 286 through Pentium III.

Sun Ultra SPARC 5, NeXT Cube, SGI Indy, DEC Alpha and Tadpole.

G4 Cube, PowerBook G4 DVI.

Owned a BeBox for a few days but never received it. Very sad.

Saving up for a Cray T3E. Only $5,393,968 to go.

[martinatkinson]

lol...I didn't know people named their computers

Anyway, here is a pretty complete list of my computers (in order of purchase):

Ancient DOS-based PC (DOS)
Performa 630CD (OS 7.X)
PowerMac 8500 (OS 10.0, OS 9.1)
Mac IICX (OS 6.5)
PowerMac G4 @ 733MHz (OS 10.15, OS 9.21)

That is it, hopefully I will be able to get a flat screen iMac or a PowerBook this fall when Jaguar comes out

Albert