{"id":708,"date":"2006-02-11T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=708"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:24:13","slug":"the-progression-of-my-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/02\/11\/the-progression-of-my-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progression of My Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s the progression of my computer(s) through the years. Of course, there is no picture of my Zenith 8088-based computer, as it only ran DOS. Likewise, I never got a picture of any screen in my 286, 386, or 486-based computers (all of which ran either DOS or Windows 3.1).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows 95\" title=\"Windows 95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/images\/sys_95.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, Windows 95 &#8211; this was &#8220;Home One,&#8221; the IBM Aptiva I bought for college. At the time, I thought it was a pretty sweet computer!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows ME\" title=\"Windows ME\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/images\/sys_me.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I seem to have lost the picture of my computer&#8217;s system properties window for Windows 98, but rest assured that I did run 98 for quite some time before (reluctantly) upgrading to ME. The computer that ran ME was Mobius, I believe &#8211; before I reformatted the whole thing for the next OS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows 2000\" title=\"Windows 2000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/images\/sys_2000.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Windows 2000 was with me for a LONG time &#8211; 6 years, I think. The computer that ran it was the venerable old Mobius &#8211; the most reliable and long-lived computer I&#8217;ve ever had thus far in my life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows XP\" title=\"Windows XP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/images\/sys_xp.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, as you know, I upgraded to a new computer &#8211; and not one that I built myself. *gasp!* I know, I know, what&#8217;s a computer geek like me doing a pre-built computer &#8211; from Dell, no less? Well, the short answer is that I&#8217;m lazy &#8211; and the long answer is that I&#8217;m lazy and I just wanted something new, fast, and put together <em>right<\/em>. I&#8217;m way behind the times in terms of hardware these days &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t have a chance of knowing how to put together a fast system anymore. What with serial ATA hard drives and 7 different flavors of RAM&#8230; it&#8217;s just too much work. And I&#8217;ve got other things to worry about &#8211; let&#8217;s not forget what I do for a living at the moment, and let me tell you, that consumes quite a bit of my mental resources. Besides, it was a good deal and it&#8217;s fast &#8211; and has a warranty; which is something I&#8217;ve never had on a computer before (well, I suppose the Aptiva had one, but still&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>So there\u00a0 you have it &#8211; the progression of my computers, as told by the System Properties window. Now, to play some games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s the progression of my computer(s) through the years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3390,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/03\/26\/some-completely-pointless-benchmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":708,"position":0},"title":"Some Completely Pointless Benchmarks","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Just for fun, I timed how long it takes to start up my desktop computer and my netbook. 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