Tuesday, November 13, 2007

History of Personal Computer

1st PC
Some Acer PC, it doesn't even have a hard drive and uses floopy B: drive. Only thing I remember running on it was Pong and Lotus 123 all in DOS.

Probably 2 years

2nd PC
I didn't not have PC per se but did have Pentium 133MHz Laptop brand was Mitec or something. Near 1GB Storage (9xx MB)

2 years

3rd (2nd real PC)

First clone pc, Celeron 333MHz . Last 2 years as well. Never had any branded PCs from here on. 20GB Storage

4th (3rd real PC)

Pentium III 800MHz , 40GB HDD. First PC with non on-board intergrated GPU. Riva TNT2.
Lasted 3 years - Co-existed with the AMD Duron

5th (4th real PC)
AMD Duron 1.3GHz
Lasted a month, sold it to get a PS2.

6th (5th real PC)
Pentium 4 2.6C, ATI 9600 Pro(fried recently)[replaced with 9550]
Longest Lasting (4 years and counting) Half Dead.. Certain parts fried argh!

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