How old/young are you (to all)?

I started with PCs when I was 16... 17 now.

I remember my first custom build.

AMD Sempron 3100+ OCd to 2.4GHz
754 T-force 6100 mobo
1GB Patriot Signature
X800GTO 256MB(still a decent card)
80GB WD Caviar SE
Raidmax Elite gray case with custom fan holes
Thermaltake T2 430W

It was(and still would be) a very fast home PC. I just sold it, in fact, for $400 to a friend.

I remember my first dual core.

X2 3800+ @ 2.4 then 2.6GHz(now an AM2 4400+ @ 2.6GHz)
4 x 512MB crucial ballistix DDR400(now 2 x 1GB Ballistix)
X850XT 256MB(great card, still very powerful, still have it)(now X1800XT 256MB)
ECS ATi 480 mobo 939(now an M2N SLi Deluxe AM2)
HP HiPro 500W PSU(now an Enermax Liberty 620W)
250GB WD Caviar SE(still have it)
Sunbeam Silent Storm Case(best case I've ever had) (still have it)

 

Sam.

I know it's 125 years. Just checking the effects of the new math! LOL!! It's these damn dyslexic fingers! ROFL!!

Seriously, it was a bit risky as there were no RMAs in those days. The warranty was zilch, but it did teach you to be careful. Intel had a fat 30 day warranty! There was no Internet! If something went wrong, unless you were a good customer of your dealer there was no warranty to speak of, maybe 30 days tops! You were totally dependent on your relationship with your dealer. I used to spend about $3000 a month with him for computer parts so I never had any problems! Can't imagine why! LOL!!

I remember getting into it with my then wife and a salesman from Encyclopedia Britanica who wanted to sell us some $2500 worth of books. I had just read an article in a Computer mag about the future of CD-Roms and told this guy that some day in the near future his encyclopedia would be on a couple of CD-Roms for $50 or so and be inter-active with video and all. Both he and my wife told me I was crazy and laughed at me. I threw him out! The only thing I regret is not throwing her out too! Would have saved me a couple years of aggrivation.

Anyway, Old Age is a good thing. It means you lived long enough to learn something, and it was fun!

Best Regards and Happy Birthday to all,
Russ

 

Well that's it isn't it, thing is though, what next? You're the visionary!

 

I'm 25, and I'm not calculating out the days..

 

sammorris,

Could you see a C2D with Hyper-Threading! Or at least memory management on chip! It's not needed right now, but if AMD ever put on the pressure again...............I don't know as my crystal Ball hasn't worked right since I got it back from the shop. Everything's Cloudy! ROFL!!!

Seriously, I have made a few good calls over the years but the best call was the CD-Rom. And the progress of the Coppermine being stopped had me really wondering about Intel, as my dual 1GHz Dell 420 was eating the P4s for breakfast, lunch and dinner until the Northwood came along. And you couldn't even overclock it! I just wonder how Intel feels about the boys who secretly kept developing the Coppermine into the C2D of today. Think of where Intel would be if they had fired the lot for doing what they were told not to do! No C2D, thats for sure! ROFL!!

In exactly 2 weeks, I'll be 63 and I've seen quite a bit in those 63 years. I remember wanting one of those Amstrad 8 bits you guys over there had, while we were stuck with the 8086 and 8088s in a huge box with mostly nothing in it. man have the years flown by! LOL!!

Happy Birthday to all!
theone

 

And my home address is 20 minutes' walk from the Amstrad head office.

 

Nearly 19~~~! (I feel like a little kid saying that. "18 and three quarters old!" Except my birthday is in the beginning of July.)

 

19.150 years old at present! lol

 

63 last Sunday! God I'm getting old! LOL!!

theone

 

Happy birthday for then Russ! Sorry I missed the actual day, the mishap at the hounds confused me!

 

sammorris,

I just don't put the correct info in my profile as too much can be gained by someone not meaning well using that info! Just call me Paranoid! LOL!!

Clock On,
Russ :<}

 

Oh well, I suppose that's fair enough.

 

I am 44. That's old. How long have I got left? Who knows.

 

i hate being over a year older than you, ben.

 

Well, I'm in the same sort of club Auslander, I'm 4 months older...

 

Ok ive been here before, i'm 44 but the scarey thing is my son wills is 13 this month, a teenager to become, what do I do hide/ install net nanny/ or just leave the UK/

 

I guess that depends how liberal you are with his internet usage.

 

Damn!I'm turning 28 tomorrow!

 

hehe, lame, getting old eh?
:S