I guess I can call myself a computer Enthusiast. I just love reading about all the new technology. I have a p3 1GHz, nvidia GF3, and 384Megs of ram. I love computers, don't get me wrong. But, I don't see any reason upgrading every 2 seconds or something. Nothing special is happening in the industry as we speak anyway.

Computers analyst for a financial corp in Montreal, Canada

=)

if not in front of my 'puter, i'm in my new car! :D

happy new owner of a p5

LOL . Thats too funny. Well, I guess birds of a feather...:D

thank you thank you:blue:

where the heck is bryce on this subject...he's the utimate comp geek *winks* but he's a cute one!!! and as for me..i like to pretend i know lots and then bryce gets to fix everything after me!

danielle

oh yeah, i forgot something....

for those computers freaks out there.....

I have a Logo of Redhat distribution on my p5

:p

I am a computer geek. I built about 4 computers, and everyone comes to me when they have a computer question.

I am in front of the computer most of the day. I design seafood processing equipment (automatic shrimp peelers, cookers, etc).

I didnt see anyone list a Commadore 64/128 in there computer history! The C64 was my first computer :D

I've gone through:

PCs:
(3) Commodore 64s
IBM 286
486 DX/4 100Mhz, 8M, 570M
p133, 32M, 1.2G
p2 350, 64M, 8.4G
dell p2 450, 128M, 12G
p3 650, 192M, 38G
dell p4 1.6, 128M, 40G

Laptops:
Old ass compaq 486/33 12M, 320M
Toshiba p2 400, 64M, 4G
Dell Lattitude CPI p2 266, 128M, 10G (For sale)

PDA:
Handspring Visor Deluxe


I built a new PC a few months ago:
AMD XP 1800
AsusA7V 333 Raid
512M PC2700
80G Western Digital (No 8M buffer) : (
MSI GF4 4200 128M
plextor 40x burner
DVD drive
19" flatscreen CRT

I'm really pleased with my new system, but I probably should have just kept my old PC, I hardly do anythign with this new one, hahaha... In all fairness these were the PCs in my family, I didn't own all of them myself, they are either mine, my parents, or my sister's.

Id be more than happy to compete for the rank of computer and car geek of this forum! :D

I think my firt was a Radio Shack Coco 64. Mmm I miss the atari days LOL

Well, I'm not a Protege owner, but...

I just turned 19 yrs. old. I am an IT Technician for Science Applications International Corporation. I do web design on my own and have done some programming. Took 2 years of Cisco training in high school and have done loads of networking. I was teaching myself how to program when I was 7 or 8 (BASIC). I am working on designing a video game ( http://home.earthlink.net/~fyrelance/infiltration ), I do graphic design and am fairly familiar with Photoshop, and I create electronic techno/trance music (http://www.mp3.com/david_michael ).

My list:

The Past:
-Commodore 64 (First computer ever, taught myself BASIC on it), had literally THOUSANDS of programs for it, now have emulators with over 4000 ROMs for it. Was very upset when father got rid of the original machine though.)
-286 IBM PC/Compatible @ 10MHz, 8MB RAM, w00t!
-386 IBM PC/Compatible @ 33MHz, 16MB RAM, w00t w00t!
-486 IBM PC/Compatible @ 50MHz, 16 upped to 32MB RAM
-Pentium 233MHZ / 32MB RAM
-TRS-80 picked up at a garage sale for the heck of it. Never really understood the point of those things...
-Cyrix 3??MHz that the fan died on, the chip overheated and fried my machine, lol.
-AMD K6-2 350MHz self built
-Apple Macintosh LC475 @ 25MHz
-Apple Macintosh Clone @ 120MHz
-AMD Athlon 600MHz 256MB RAM self built

Currently Owned:
Apple Macintosh IIcx (out of commission but kept around just because :) )
Apple Macintosh 8600 (needs power supply or something...)
Apple Macintosh 7200/75MHz
Apple Macintosh clone @ 120MHz
Apple Macintosh Performa 6100 with 275MHz G3 upgrade card
Celeron 433MHz overclocked to 488MHz, 128MB RAM Hewlett Packard / self-modified/molested
Compaq Armada laptop @ 166MHz / 1 gig HD
Compaq Armada laptop @ 166MHz / 3.4 gig HD

Current main machine: Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.53GHz with 256MB PC2700 RAM, RAID support, Gainward 128MB GeForce 4 3D accelerator, 6 ch. surround support (need speakers though...) . 118 gigs of hard drive space. Self built.

I think I got 'em all... let's not even get into game consoles. ;)

And my favorite of the bunch? The good ol' Commodore 64, baby!!!

( the older machines make great Starcraft, Warcraft II, Diablo machines for LAN gaming. :D )

I am by my co-workers standards...but not by mine....THEY ARE COMPLETE COMPUTER MORONS! LOL The sometimes refer to me as "cyber bitch" lol I am a mechanic by trade in a Nuclear Power Plant. I am in supervision now....but I built my current system.....and have to HELP my co-workers all the time.

My Current Creation
Chemning Case with Open Window Panel with two thermaltake intake fans
Antec 420W PS
2 Additional Thermaltake 80mm Fans
2 blacklight Cold Cathode
Punisher and Spiderman Marvel Fan Covers
A7N266-C Socket A DDR motherboard
All Round IDE Cables
SoundBlaster Live
1800+ AMD XP
Thermaltake 7+ Processor Fan
256 DDR 2100
Plextor 40X Burner
DVD Drive
Superdisk Drive
Golden Hardcano 5
80 Gig Segate Baurracuda
30 Gig Maxtor
PCI Controller
ATI All In Wonder 7500
Painted with Red Blacklight Paint

The Creation that I created with my Brothers Computer
Black Lian Li
Antec 530W PS
2 additional Thermaltake 80mm Fans
2 blacklight Cold Cathode
SOYO SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition) ATX Motherboard
2X 512 DDR 2700
Sound Blaster Live
2000+ AMD XP
Thermaltake Volcano 9
Plextor 40X
DVD Drive
120 Gig IBM
Chaintech Geforce4 4600
Painted with Blue Blacklight Paint

And I wired our 5 computers together over a wireless network.

Now can I join the club?

You aren't a geek until you've used a Peltier cooler to squeeze an extra 200mhz out of a P3 :)

I've owned:

TRS Model 4 (Two floppy drives)
Sperry PC XT (8088) (8mhz)
A different POS XT (12mhz)
286-16
486sx-25
486dx-33
486dx2-100
P75 (Oc'd 90mhz)
P133
P166 (Still own)
P200 (Oc'd to 250)
Celeron 300A (Oc'd 450)
PIII-450 (still own)
PIII-800 (Oc'd 1Ghz) (still own)
AMD T-Bird 1.5Ghz (still own)

Currently own:
P166 (Linux firewall NAT box)
PIII-450 (Linux Web server)
PIII-800 (Wife's computer, no longer Oc'd...was too loud)

AMD 1.4ghz
Gigabyte 7-DXR
256 Crucial DDR
2 X IBM 30g in Raid 0
1 X Seagate 9gig U160 SCSI
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
Intel Nic
CDRW
DVD
Nvidia Gforce3 Ti 200 (OC'd to TI500)
ATI All-Wonder-Pro PCI (second monitor)

All in a Powder Coated Black 27" Addtronics 7896 server case
350W Enermax powersupply
3X 120mm fans
3X 80mm fans

Jay