I’ve decided to partake in Jethro Carr’s 30 Days of Geek challenge, so I’ll be writing a post a day on my geekiness for an entire month! You can find all the posts in one spot here.
The first computer I co-owned (with my brother):
- MSI MS-6161 Motherboard
- Intel Celeron 366MHz CPU
- 64MB 100Mhz SD-RAM
- 4GB IDE Hard Drive
- Floppy drive
- CD drive
- RTL8139B network card
- And my first hardware modification ever: adding in a Creative Soundblaster (some 16-bit ISA model).
And my favourite combination ever:
- MSI MS-6198 Motherboard
- Intel Pentium III Coppermine 933MHz CPU
- 1GB 133MHz SD-RAM (2x 512MB sticks)
- 40GB IDE drive + 250GB SATA drive (which is still going strong as a backup drive)
- Floppy drive
- CD+RW drive
- RTL8139D network card
- This motherboard, as far as I can recall, had onboard sound
Note that these computers really are one and the same, since there’s a direct ancestry between them. I’ve never ever built a computer that hasn’t shared at least one major component with a previous computer (excluding laptop purchases).
I also support frankensystems.