Waxing nostalgic

[Scorpio69]

Well, call me a sentimental fool, but I just got my first (PC) CPU and mobo back in trade. I had originally sold them several years ago to some friends as an upgrade, and just took them back as partial payment for the labor to build a new system. Pentium 120 on a Tyan Titan III. Woo hoo! Boy that was a nice box at the time.

BTW, speaking of being a sentimental fool, I still use the original Sony floppy drive from that P-120 system in my current primary box, so technically it's just an upgrade, right?

[thekingofpain]

Ive got one machine that continues to return---ive sold it 4 times to people new to computing, it dont take long and they are ready for something other then a K6-3 450 w/an 8meg videocard and I get it back---its a good reliable workhorse that im always willing to accept tho...

[griobhta]

Unfortunately my first pc gave up the ghost quite some time ago. A Tanden PCX 20 4.77 mHz 8088

Shipped with 256Kb (yes 256Kb) but had been upgraded to 640 by the time I got it. Eventually the floppy controller gave out and by that time no one I knew had a controller for a machine that old .

Served me proudly for many a year, amber screen and all.

Fondly remembered hope she is in a better place now.

griobhta

[kopfjaeger]

Sentimental?

Oddly enough, there's a practical side too. I have a FIC VA-503+ running a AMD K6-2/300 MHz, which I have repeatedly sought to replace and retire. The new ones come and go, but the workhorse inevitably gets dusted off and pressed back into service. Sheeez!

[Knothead]

Oh, man....lol, you know you're talking to hard core comp geeks when they start getting all nostalgic about their early computers...

Aw, gee, sweetie, remember the first time I lifted up your back panel and tickled your RAM?

[Ed_S]

Still have my first several machines - early '80's Tandy Color Computers. 16K ram, and that's after the big upgrade from 4K!!

They're in a basement closet, in their original boxes...

[kopfjaeger]

Ah yes, the tape in the middle of my glasses gets all soggy when I think about coming home to find my MITS Altair had been placed in the trash and hauled away (not!).