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This thread is not for bragging rights or e-penis length, I just want to see if you guys are all old geezers like me and these threads tend to be a lot fun on other forums I've been a part of.
So what's in your wallet?

PCI/AGP

Diamond Stealth 64
Matrox Mystique 3D
STB Velocity 128
Diamond Viper II Savage 2000
Diamond Viper V550
Creative Labs TNT2
Hercules Stingray 128 3D / Vooodoo Rush
Creative Labs Geforce 256
Creative Annihilator Geforce 2 GTS
PNY Geforce 3
Hercules 3D Prophet III Ti500
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
EVGA FX 5900 Ultra 256MB
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB
EVGA 6800GT 256MB
ATI Radeon X800XT-PE 256MB
ATI Radeon X850XT-PE 256MB
Visiontek X1950 Pro 256MB
Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB
HIS X1950 Pro ICEQ3 Turbo 512MB
Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ Golden Sample GLH Edition
Gecube TEC X1950XT 256MB
XFX 7950 GT 512MB

PCI-E

MSI HD 2900XT 512MB
EVGA SC 8800GT 512MB
EVGA 8800GTS 512MB
HIS HD 4870 512MB
Diamond XOC HD 4870 512MB Black Edition
EVGA GTX260 SC Core 216


Temporary cards only kept
for use between upgrades.

Rage 128 Pro - PCI
FX 5200 - AGP
MSI 7300 LE - PCI-E

I can't start to list how many video cards I had. The first real pc with win95 was Pentium 120. I had a 2mb video card. I really start out with a commodore 64 and play alot of games on it.

dmdilks wrote:I can't start to list how many video cards I had. The first real pc with win95 was Pentium 120. I had a 2mb video card. I really start out with a commodore 64 and play alot of games on it.

Did the best I could, but I know I missed a few in the beginning as well. First PC I owned was the MS-DOS 2.1 based laptop called the Toshiba T-1000 with no hard drive, but it have the OS burned on a ROM ship and had a internal non-volatile based flash hard drive which was a whopping 768K in size. Pretty advanced for it's time really. Here's my first ....

Do still have that computer because I still have the commodore 64 and I still have my 2nd motherboard. It is MSI - MS6167 with a AMD 500 cpu and 512mb of memory and it still works.

dmdilks wrote:Do still have that computer because I still have the commodore 64 and I still have my 2nd motherboard. It is MSI - MS6167 with a AMD 500 cpu and 512mb of memory and it still works.

Unfortunately not, I really wish I did though. Even way back when I always paid for my new purchases my selling the old. They use to have shops all round which would buy your old equipment and let you in trade for the newer, now I use EBay to do the same since 2000. Had a string of three or for vairous laptops after that with the last one being a 386, then I graduated to a desktop which was a pentium 133 I believe. Then I used AMD Chips all the way up until July of 2007 when I built my C2D based rig.

Ugh, I can't tell you how many video cards I had. First I think was a Rage 128 Pro, then a Rage 3D Pro (?) then a 9500 Pro, a 9800 Pro, a 6600GT, a 6800GT, an 8800GTO, then I get lost with several 8800's, 9800's and finally GXT260.

Computers? I had one of those Toshiba's like John had. Never did a damn thing with it. But my first was a VIC 20. Still have it. Then a C46, an Amiga (still have it) a bare bones with an AMD K6 400 (3D NOW!) then a couple VIA/ P4 boards, an MSI (hated it) a DFI, then it's been Abit since my AV8. Got this KN9 SLI when they first came out, and love it.

Wish I could remember all the model numbers, but they fade away once the box gets thrown out or the card/ board gets given away. I don't think I've trashed one of my cards or boards, they all get to live long lives with a new owner. Chris.

Mr. Chris wrote:Ugh, I can't tell you how many video cards I had. First I think was a Rage 128 Pro, then a Rage 3D Pro (?) then a 9500 Pro, a 9800 Pro, a 6600GT, a 6800GT, an 8800GTO, then I get lost with several 8800's, 9800's and finally GXT260.

Computers? I had one of those Toshiba's like John had. Never did a damn thing with it. But my first was a VIC 20. Still have it. Then a C46, an Amiga (still have it) a bare bones with an AMD K6 400 (3D NOW!) then a couple VIA/ P4 boards, an MSI (hated it) a DFI, then it's been Abit since my AV8. Got this KN9 SLI when they first came out, and love it.

Wish I could remember all the model numbers, but they fade away once the box gets thrown out or the card/ board gets given away. I don't think I've trashed one of my cards or boards, they all get to live long lives with a new owner. Chris.

I hear you, I probably wouldn't remember half the ones I had either, but over the years I kept the Ebay links to the cards I sold all the way back to 2000.

As far as the Toshiba goes, I did a lot with the T-1000 and if it wasn't for that laptop I wouldn't be where I am today. (Broke and Unemployed ) But seriously though, I got it for work when I was an Exterminator, or at least that's what I told my wife. Anyway, picked up several books and learned MS-DOS and Batch Filing or Scripting as it's now called. I used it for keeping track of customer sales, wrote a Bug text-based database compiled from several books I had and it was search-able using a DOS batch file I wrote so I could look up life cycles, descriptions, treatments etc. and I would bring it into people's homes when doing sales calls. Impressed the customers and my boss quite a bit because way back then it was a pretty big deal, at least for an exterminator. It was not in anyway suitable for games though, but I did manage a few rousing games of Jeopardy on its two color non-back-lit screen. Also forgot to mention in the last post, it also used an 80C88 Processor going at a blazingly fast 4.77 Mhz., no I didn't misplace a decimal point. They made several different models back then some had a hard drive and some came with dual 3.5" diskette drives. I believe mine costed around $900 at the time. Found this little write-up on it under Diskless Wonders ...

http://www.computer-guru.com/diskless.html

My father had a Vic-20 and we played alot games on it. Than I got a C64 and we thought we were in heaven. My kids played Little Computer People for hours. I played a game called Fire King and there was another guy in work that played it too. At that time we thought that was the greatest game going.

My first PC was an Acer DX2 50. It had DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1

engine' wrote:My first PC was an Acer DX2 50. It had DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1

Welcome aboard Engine. You just sparked my memory, I previously said my first Desktop was a Pentium 133, I believe when I bought the old Packard Bell it was DX2 66 Mhz., then I upgraded it later.