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My First PC and More!

So I got interested when I read this post about people's first PCs so I decided that I would post my list of PCs over the years since I am a techie and I love this stuff!

This was the first PC I really ever did anything useful on. The Toshiba T1000 had a whopping 512 Kb of internal memory, a built in 2400 baud modem, a external 720 Kb 5.25" external drive and a 720 Kb 3.5" drive! This was the PC I first messed around with BASIC and DOS and also was the first online experience I ever had. In those days text based CompuServe was the bomb and playing text based online RPGs was a great way to entertain yourself!.

From this point, there was no turning back, I was destined to be a techie and below is the list of PCs that I have had since then:

• IBM compatible 286 (math rabbit was sweet!)
• IBM compatible 386 DX (my first taste of sim city and Windows 3.1)
• Canon Innova Pentium 75 (the first PC I had to run Win95. Plug and Play baby!)
• Home built AMD K6-2
• Home built PIII Celeron 300mhz
• Home built 3 Ghz P4 HT
• IBM Thinkpad PIII 1ghz
• Home built AMD X2 3000+
• Gateway Server (Dual PIII 1ghz, U160 SCSI)
• HP dv1000 Centrino laptop (2ghz)
• HP/Compaq 1ghz Athlon laptop
• Dell Lattitude D800 series (2.2 ghz Core 2 Duo)
• Dell XPS m1330 (2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo)
• HP Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz PC (current)

So there you have it, those are all of the PCs that I have primarily used growing up until the present. I encourage everyone to post their experiences as well since it is always interesting to see how technology has shaped other peoples' lives.