Processors you've had over the years?

[sammy sung]

This can obviously be moved if it's placed incorrectly~

I read an article today that was just a really good find overall. I'll link it, but the quick and dirty of it is the writer detailing the processors he's owned through out life and the years he had each one. I just thought it a really cool and nostalgic topic. My custom building experience only goes back a limited amount of time, so my list is pretty small. But I'd love to hear others, especially some of the older members!

Just for the sake of the thread here's mine. You of course don't have to list it as I do. Detail would be awesome~

2007 = Q6600
2008 = Q9650
2011 = i5 2500(non K)
2013 = i5 4670K
2015 = i7 5930K

My needs have changed drastically over the years. my c2q days were focused heavily on gaming, whereas now I host a great many virtual machines, and do some video editing almost daily. I have owned other processors in the past, like P4's etc. But these weren't towers I built myself

http://blog.newegg.com/two-decades-of-intel-processors/?cm_mmc=SNC-Facebook-_-SS-_-Blog-Intel-_-NA

 

[synphul]

One of the first pc's my family had was an ibm clone. Unfortunately I can't remember the brand other than it started with an "S" (not sanyo or samsung or anything familiar I've seen running around). I believe it was an 8086 clone with a dot matrix printer and 5.25" floppy disk setup running dos back in the 80's.

My first personal computer that was actually mine was a tandy trs-80 (coco 3) around '86 or '87. Ran basic and used cartridges rather than floppy.

Around '96 had a mac se given to me from a friend of the family. Not overly functional (was a bit old at the time) and was trying to get online with it (ha). It was however one of the coolest systems I had for sentimental reasons since it was the personal computer of a man who at the time was sr vp of sales for seagate technologies. It was the computer he used when in europe helping expand seagate to the european market. Having sent the whole setup, printer included it was a bit difficult finding paper for it. It used the european a4 paper standard which wasn't easy to come by in the u.s. at the time.

Shortly after around '97 picked up a webtv unit (tried selling them for awhile). Not much of a computer but was one of my early points of access to the internet and had sort of a webtv subculture.

Around '98 got ahold of a pc with an amd k6-2 350.

Shortly after gave that to a family member and used a compaq presario with an intel p166.

'01 or around that time when the compaq died (soldered cmos battery gave out), upgraded to an ibm with a p2-450 slot style cpu.

I think it was around 2003 or close to 2004, built my first pc based on a p4 northwood 3ghz.

'09 I upgraded to a core 2 duo e8400.

2014 around the holidays upgraded to my current i5 4690k.

A lot has changed over the years and I can recall using dos models for typing up reports or using older software like lotus 1-2-3. I can remember thinking the handful of colors on the trs-80 was something special. Having used dos, win95, win98/se, win2k, xp, server 2003, vista, win 7, various versions of linux (red hat, suse etc). Back when pc's were on showroom floors and being amazed in the early days of video playing on a screen and being wowed when a pc looked just like a t.v. set. Being a kid in the 80's and my parents running a corporate car service in silicon valley, got to meet a number of people working as vp's for seagate, conner peripherals before it was acquired by seagate (including the founder/ceo, Finis Conner) and others. A few I got to see their personal pc setups and it was ridiculous. Entire rooms filled with hardware, towers, multiple monitors. Likely not near the processing horsepower of today's average pc's but killer setups especially for the time. Good times being part of the internet before google and facebook dominated, back when there were a number of competitive search tools like webcrawler, lycos, altavista and bigfoot. Back when one of the bigger debates wasn't amd vs intel but rather netscape vs internet explorer and the perpetual browser wars. One thing about it, tech moves fast.

 

[danny2000]

I can't remember...since I go back to like Windows 3.1 days.
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[danny2000]

One of the first pc's my family had was an ibm clone. Unfortunately I can't remember the brand other than it started with an "S" (not sanyo or samsung or anything familiar I've seen running around). I believe it was an 8086 clone with a dot matrix printer and 5.25" floppy disk setup running dos back in the 80's.

My first personal computer that was actually mine was a tandy trs-80 (coco 3) around '86 or '87. Ran basic and used cartridges rather than floppy.

Around '96 had a mac se given to me from a friend of the family. Not overly functional (was a bit old at the time) and was trying to get online with it (ha). It was however one of the coolest systems I had for sentimental reasons since it was the personal computer of a man who at the time was sr vp of sales for seagate technologies. It was the computer he used when in europe helping expand seagate to the european market. Having sent the whole setup, printer included it was a bit difficult finding paper for it. It used the european a4 paper standard which wasn't easy to come by in the u.s. at the time.

Shortly after around '97 picked up a webtv unit (tried selling them for awhile). Not much of a computer but was one of my early points of access to the internet and had sort of a webtv subculture.

Around '98 got ahold of a pc with an amd k6-2 350.

Shortly after gave that to a family member and used a compaq presario with an intel p166.

'01 or around that time when the compaq died (soldered cmos battery gave out), upgraded to an ibm with a p2-450 slot style cpu.

I think it was around 2003 or close to 2004, built my first pc based on a p4 northwood 3ghz.

'09 I upgraded to a core 2 duo e8400.

2014 around the holidays upgraded to my current i5 4690k.

A lot has changed over the years and I can recall using dos models for typing up reports or using older software like lotus 1-2-3. I can remember thinking the handful of colors on the trs-80 was something special. Having used dos, win95, win98/se, win2k, xp, server 2003, vista, win 7, various versions of linux (red hat, suse etc). Back when pc's were on showroom floors and being amazed in the early days of video playing on a screen and being wowed when a pc looked just like a t.v. set. Being a kid in the 80's and my parents running a corporate car service in silicon valley, got to meet a number of people working as vp's for seagate, conner peripherals before it was acquired by seagate (including the founder/ceo, Finis Conner) and others. A few I got to see their personal pc setups and it was ridiculous. Entire rooms filled with hardware, towers, multiple monitors. Likely not near the processing horsepower of today's average pc's but killer setups especially for the time. Good times being part of the internet before google and facebook dominated, back when there were a number of competitive search tools like webcrawler, lycos, altavista and bigfoot. Back when one of the bigger debates wasn't amd vs intel but rather netscape vs internet explorer and the perpetual browser wars. One thing about it, tech moves fast.

Excellent history!!!! thank you. I was almost as far back as you, I guess, but I did not keep anywhere near of a track of history as you did; well done, lad!!!

 

[danny2000]

I am guessing that you got tired at the end, and the last paragraph is like just too long, but you are forgiven, for the overall content for your entire product.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

The only ones I remember are:

Pentium E6500 @ 2.93Ghz
i5 2320 @ 3.3Ghz
i5 4690k @ 3.9Ghz (Overclocked to 4.5Ghz)

 

[witherskeleton85]

From the very first Celeron to the mobile A2 to the four Xeon 8894-V4s that I have, I feel fond of the Zilog Z80 processor that was here since 1975 (I use a graphing calculator)

 

[jankerson]

The ones that matter:
i386
i486 DX
Pentium Overdrive
Pent 133
Pent 200 MMX
Pent II 350
Pent II 400
Pent III 933
Pent III 1000
Pent 4 2.4 GHZ
Pent 4 3.06 GHZ
Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHZ
Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHZ
Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHZ
i5 750
XEON 3450
i7 870
i5 3450S
i7 7700K


For my own computers my 1st real PC was given to me, an old IBM Microchannel machine with a i386 running Windows 3.11.

Around the same time I got an even older i286 machine running DOS.

Then I got another one given to me, a 486 DX, another IBM.

1st machine I built from scratch was a Pent 200 MMX Around 1995 if I remember.

Had that for awhile until I build my P2 350 box and then another P2 400 shortly after.

Then the P3 machines after that, both the P3 933 and a dual CPU P3 1000 server.

The P4's had issues with the power in the house, none of those lasted very long.

The Core 2 machines after those, had some power issues in the house, lightning strikes.

Then the i5 machines and up to current over the past 8 years.

 

[mdd1963]

Pentium 120
K6-233
K6-2/350
K6-3/450
Athlon 650
P3/850@1028
Athlon XP-1700
Athlon XP-2100
Athlon 64/3500+
P4-2400C (in Biostar SFF)
smattering of laptops (Celeron 1.3, HP A4 APU 2 GHz)
7700K