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oldie type post but lets see the results anyway !

first was a 1088 turbo
then a 486 dx2
then hp- 266
then custom builts
p2-300 oc
p2-400 scsi
and a whole bunch of athons with one taking a drop kick.
today - 1.87 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo

next week maybe a fx57 will see not decided if i want to drop the cash into a new powersupply,memory,video card (dont need much of a card do 1 gig work for my needs)

My first was a Commodore 64 w/5.25" Disk Drive hooked up to a color TV using an IBM typewriter as a printer..

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The first computer I had I'm not sure what was on the inside, but it was an IBM that used 11" floppies & ran Basic DOS. It came from a McDonald Douglas engineer as a present. I spent many hours programming games into it... before I knew how to type. Oh & it had a modem that I never ended up using.

My first computer that I purchased for myself was a Celeron 366 (OCed to 458mhz). It ran a 12gb Quantum Bigfoot & I also had a double height 5.25" 20gb SCSI drive (tons of storage at that time). Took a full tower computer to fit it all.

#2 I believe was a Duron 800mhz (OCed to around 1000mhz). Don't remember much else about it except that it had a Radeon 8500 which was ATI's first real smack back at Nvidia after years of dominance.

#3 was a Athlon XP 1800+ (OCed to 2400+ speeds) with a whopping 1gb of RAM.

#4 was an Athlon 64 3200+ (don't remember how much I OCed this for some reason) that I rocked a Radeon 9700 on (that card lasted me quite a while). This one is still serving duty for a friend to this day.

#5 was a Intel E4300 (OCed to 3.2ghz) Core 2 Duo with the same 8gb of RAM that I'm running today. That rig started with the infamous Woot 7900gs (stolen cards), then took an 8800gs, then a GTX260, then a HD4890 before I finally moved on. Got a lot of mileage out of that CPU.

#6 Intel E8400 (OCed to 3.4ghz) Core 2 Duo with HD5870 & 8gb DDR2. I haven't moved on from here due to RAM prices, but the recent drops have made me consider a move. Not that I've run into much that slowed me down with the current setup.

The funny thing about it all is that it was really hard drive & RAM upgrades that made the huge everyday noticeable difference in performance. Despite their reputation, it was a Deskstar drive that first let me know how fast a computer could be. Of course, video games change everything.

Don't even know if I could remember them all:

I know the first one was a Radio Shack with a tape drive to store custom programs. Might of had maybe 16k of memory.

Then I moved on to a 8088 "turbo" so I can get a whopping 8MHz.

After that, 286, 386, 486, Pentium etc until now my last build of December 2008: Q6600 Quad Core custom build.