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How many computers have you went through?
Bud:
I always had my own assembled desktop computers. So i only on my 4th one over the last 25 years. And I have one Thinkpad notebook on a side as a serial port terminal. That one is perhaps 15 years old.
David Hess:
Just counting computers that I purchased for myself:
Micronics EISA 66MHz 486DX2 - Was limited to 8MBytes
Tyan Pentium 90
Asus P55T2P4 K6-3 with 32 or 64 MB of ECC - I had several of these and they all failed when the embedded lithium cell for the BIOS memory died.
Abit BX6R2 with Celeron 300A with 1GB ECC - Upgraded to a 1.2 GHx Pentium 3 and still have it.
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Pentium 4 2.4C with 2GB ECC - Still have it. This was my last Intel system because of lack of Intel support for ECC.
Asus M3A78-T Phenom II 940 with 8GB ECC - Still have it and use it as a file server now.
Asus Prime X570 PRO Ryzen 3700X with 64G ECC - My current workstation.
Update, other systems I had included:
Sinclair ZX80 - *Not* a ZX81!
Atari 800
Apple ][e with Microsoft Softcard CP/M
NNC - Literally means No Name Computer - This was an S-100 bus system with 63K of RAM and ran CP/M
Atari ST
Various PC and AT clones
jmelson:
Well, I can't really remember all the old ones, but I have been using Dell desktops for some time, from the optiplex line (commercial, rather than the consumer ones). They have been amazingly reliable. A previous one ran 24/7 for 12 years, and I bought it used! That's still running at my mother in law's house. I have been using the current one since at least 2017. I had to replace the power supply, it was crashing during power glitches. I have also used an old Dell Latitude when traveling, but it is pretty out of date and 32-bit only, so needs to be upgraded. 32-bits is FINE for me, but most of the new OS's don't support it.
Before all the PC stuff, I had a MicroVAX-II at home for about 21 years. Eventually, the PC made it like it had the parking brake stuck on. Before that, I had a Z-80 system with S-100 bus, and then a Nat Semi 16032 system that was so slow it would put you to sleep.
Jon
gnuarm:
I can't remember years, but they will be apparent by the CPU.
LSI-11 from Heathkit
Several single board computers, including a TMS9900, TMS9995 homebuilt, one of the 6502 SBCs and an 8008 based backplane computer. I think I still have all of these... somewhere.
80286 box made by a local shop.
80486 box from Costco (not sure of the brand)
Pentium II box - homemade, a Celeron clone running Lindows (linux) which was upgraded to an actual Celeron (which required a fan), networked together running Win2K
Compaq laptop (not sure of the processor)
Lenovo laptop which only lasted a year, total junk!
Several Dell boat anchor, desktop equivalent laptops from eBay. I used the 15 inch display units for test fixtures.
My current Lenovo laptop which works very well, but is no longer made, as Lenovo has dropped 17 inch display laptops. I think when this machine goes bad and I get a lust for computing, I'll just start taking walks on the beach.
vad:
I lost count of how many computers I've owned. I guess it's around 30.
The first one was a ZX Spectrum clone built from a DIY electronics kit.
Today, we have seven computers in our household: two ThinkPads for adults, two MacBooks for the kids, and three rack-mountable servers.
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