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windows 3.11 133mhz 800mb hd ex-office pc

w98 600mz 8gb 2nd hand

ME 1ghz celeron 20gb h/d now dual booting

XP 1.6g 60gb hd and planing a self build when i get the dosh and need to upgrade . :D

all in the last 2yrs after I got hooked

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ZX81

Spectrum 48k

Spectrum 128k

Amiga A500

Amiga A1200

PII 333MHz (built to order by local shop)

then bought ATX case, new motherboard, cpu, processor, fans, more memory etc and built the existing one using the old floppy, CD-ROM, CD-RW and a few other odds and sods.

Later refurbished the older one for one of my sons.

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I love the abacus joke slarty !!

I had

spectrum 48K ............didnt you just LOVE those wire frame graphics,and spending HOURS programming just so you could see an analogue clock !!!!

Sega master system...............mega drive

sony playstation (loved resident evil)

Mesh matrix 1 GHz with AMD athlon............soundblaster live 1024........geforce2 GTS pro 64Mb DDR............ a kick ass machine (when I know what the hell I am doing !!!! LOL)

:ph34r:

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Tandy TRS80

Sinclair ZX81 +16k rampack (still got)

Tandy 1000 EX (256k) DOS 2.1 (still got + works perfectly)

Olivetti 286 SX/16 (1Mb) DOS 4.01 - traded in for

Universal 386SX/25 (2Mb) DOS 5.0 - traded in for

Universal 486SX/25 (4Mb) DOS 6.0 which grew through Windows 3.0 + 3.1 to 16Mb 486DX4/100 Win 95 - RIP Sep 2002

Advent PII 350 (64Mb) Win 98 (this PC !) - but now 192Mb courtesy of some charitable donations :)

Have also bought (but am not "allowed" to use - only maintain !) :-

Advent PIII 733 (128Mb) Win 98SE - now 512Mb (youngest daughter)

HP XE4100 Celeron 1.2 Laptop 128Mb XP Home (eldest daughter)

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Looking at the kit some of you people owned, tells me that you have been knocking around personal computers for a long time.

Was it 20yrs ago for the ZX81?

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Acorn Electron

BBC Master Compact (both dfs and adfs eeproms) (both this and electron sent off to a dutch museum)

Commodore 64 (in the loft)

Archimedes (went bang)

386 (binned it)

P90 (now awaiting a linux install to be my home gateway)

PIII 600 (now residing in my brothers bedroom)

AMD 950 (my current home machine)

Awaiting release of the new AMD 64 bit chips for next machine.

14x Assorted Dell Servers + 950 Assorted PIII's and AMD's above 600mhz (my current office machines) :P

Mr. Mouse.

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