The contents (and existence) of this list proves, without possibility of doubt, that I am beyond help.
At any rate, here’s a list of the systems (and gadgets worth noting) I’ve owned through the course of my life and the year, as best I can remember, that I acquired them. There is some overlap of my time with these machines and I have, indeed, occasionally owned the same model more than once.
All linked photos are of the actual hardware I owned at the time. The units listed in boldface are still in my collection.
- Atari 2600 (1980-ish)
- TI-99/4A (1982)
- 3.3MHz 16-bit TMS9900 CPU
- TI Peripheral Expansion Chassis
- TI RS-232 Interface Board
- TI 32K Memory Expansion Board
- 5.25″ floppy drive
- TI Speech Synthesizer Module
- TI Joystick Controllers
- Montgomery Ward 13″ composite monitor / TV
- Smith Corona TP-1 daisywheel printer
- Apple //c (1984)
- 1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
- Apple //c External 5.25″ floppy drive
- Apple Monitor //c and stand
- Street Electronics’ Cricket
- Apple ImageWriter Printer
- Hayes Mach III Joystick
- Atari 400 (1984)
- Commodore 128 (1985)
- Macintosh (original, 128K, etc.) (1985)
- Laser 2000 (Apple II+ compatible) (1985)
- Amiga 1000 (first one sold in Virginia) (1985)
- Amiga 1010 external 3.5″ floppy drive
- 256K internal memory expansion cartridge
- Okidata Okimate 20 color, wax printer (24-element)
- Apple IIe enhanced (1986)
- 1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
- Apple Extended 80-column Card
- Apple DuoDisk drive & controller
- Apple UniDisk 3.5 & controller
- Apple Color Monitor II
- Sweet Micro Systems’ Mockingboard C
- Prometheus ProModem 1200A 1200-baud modem
- CH Products Mach III joystick
- Apple ImageWriter II color printer
- Atari 520ST (1986)
- Internal memory expanded to 1MB (from 512K)
- dual Atari SF314 3.5″ floppy drives
- Atari SC1224 color RGB monitor
- Atari SM124 monochrome hi-res monitor
- Epson LX-800 printer
- MicroMate A520 STation all-in-one system stand
- Apple IIgs (1987)
- 2.8MHz 65C816, ROM 01 motherboard (256K on board)
- Apple Color RGB Monitor
- Apple 3.5″ floppy drive
- Central Point 3.5″ Floppy Drive w/ Universal Disk Controller
- Apple 5.25″ Floppy drive
- Apple ImageWriter II color printer
- AST RAMFast board w/ 1024K RAM + 32K EEPROM
- MDIdeas SuperSonic stereo board
- ThunderScan image scanning Imagewriter cartridge
- AST VisionPlus video digitizer board
- Kensington System Saver IIgs fan / surge protector
- CH Products Mach III Joystick
- Bose RoomMate speakers – IIgs “Platinum” edition (no Apple logo colors though…)
- Laser 128 (1988) (Apple //c compatible) (1988)
- Side-mounted, two-slot card cage
- Sweet Micro Systems’ Mockingboard C
- Prometheus ProModem 1200A 1200-baud modem
- A+ Mouse (optical with metallic grid-pad)
- Side-mounted, two-slot card cage
- Atari Mega2 ST (1989)
- Tandy 1000TL (1989)
- Apple IIe (1989)
- 1.02MHz 6502 CPU
- Apple Extended 80-column Card
- Apple Disk II drive & controller
- Amdek Amdisk 1 3″ floppy drive (info)
- Central Point Alaska Card (copy-card)
- Amiga 2000 (1989)
- Apple //c+ (1990)
- Tandy 1000TL (1990)
- 8MHz 80286 CPU
- 30GB MiniScribe “hard card”
- Apple Macintosh LC (1991)
- Amiga 1200HD (1993)
- 40MB internal HD
- Commodore 1960 monitor
- LineLink 14.4Kbps modem
- Epson AP-3250 printer
- TI-99/4A (1993)
- eCesys 486DX2-66 based PC (to run NeXTSTEP for Intel, black in color) (1994)
- Fast JCIS motherboard with ISA, VLB, custom WinGine slots
- 16MB RAM
- Quantum ProDrive 700S SCSI HD (700MB)
- Toshiba XM-3401B 2x SCSI CD-ROM drive (external, caddy-based)
- Pro Audio Spectrum 16 audio (later replaced with Gravis UltraSound 1MB)
- WinGine high-bandwidth framebuffer video (later replace with Hercules Dynamite Power VLB)
- Altima 17″ shadow-mask CRT (black case) (later replaced with Nokia 447Xi 17″ CRT (Trinitron))
- HP DeskJet 520 printer
- Cardinal 28.8Kbps modem (external)
- Dual 16550 FIFO buffer serial board (4 serial ports total in system)
- Amiga 1000 (1995)
- TI-99/4A (1996)
- systemboard swap on 486 to ASUS PVI-486SP3 w/ AMD 486DX4-120 (1996)
- Sony PlayStation – MOD CHIPPED (1996)
- AT&T PC6300 (1996)
- CPU upgrade on PC to AMD 5×86-133 (o’clocked to 160MHz) (1996)
- Nintendo 64 (1997)
- USRobotics PalmPilot Personal (1997)
- Philips Velo 1 HPC (1997)
- Newton MessagePad 2000 (w/ MessagePad 2100 upgrade) (1997)
- AMD K6-233 based PC: (1997)
- AMD K6-233 running @ 225MHz
- ASUS TX-97 systemboard (overclocked to 75MHz, hence the 225MHz on CPU)
- 64mb 10ns SDRAM
- ACTiSYS external IrDA adapter (to motherboard IR port)
- Diamond FirePort40 UltraSCSI adapter w/ ~7GB storage (Seagate, IBM drives)
- Hercules Stingray 128 2D video (Alliance chipset)
- Diamond Monster3D II (12mb – 4/4/4/0) 3Dfx Voodoo2-based 3D accelerator
- SoundBlaster AWE64 Value audio (hooked to Bose RoomMates)
- Epson Stylus Color 600 ink-jet printer
- Nokia 447Xi 17″ display (Trinitron)
- 3Com EtherLink III PCI ethernet adapter going to General Instruments cable modem
- Logitech 3-button mouse (considered a leathal weapon in deathmatch…)
- Running Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation v4 currently
- HP OmniGo 100 (1998)
- Amstrad PenPad PDA-600 (1998)
- Motorola Envoy 100 (1998)
- Sony MagicLink PIC-1000 (1998)
- Newton MessagePad 100 (1998)
- Philips Nino 312 (pre-production) (1998)
- Philips Nino 312 (1998)
- Apple Macintosh 512K (“Fat Mac”) (upgraded to 4mb RAM) (1998)
- Apple Macintosh Plus (upgraded to 4mb RAM) (1998)
- “Blue & White” Power Macintosh G3 (1999)
- Power Macintosh G3 400MHz
- 512MB RAM, 1MB 200MHz backside cache
- 6GB UltraATA drive
- Initio Miles UltraWide SCSI PCI Controller (bus-mastering DMA)
- 9GB 10,000RPM UltraWide SCSI Seagate Cheeetah drive
- 4GB 7,200RPM Ultra SCSI IBM UltraStor drive
- Apple 56Kbps modem, internal
- Zip drive, internal
- Rage 128 graphics board w/ 16mb SGRAM (in 66MHz PCI slot) [standard bundle]
- 3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB 3D graphics board
- Apple 17″ Studio Display (attached to Rage 128)
- ATI Xclaim 3D (Rage Pro, 4MB) video board (second video board in system)
- Nokia 447Xi 17″ Trinitron screen (attached to Xclaim3D)
- Epson Stylus Color 600 (with USB<->Parallel converter)
- Wired via Bell Atlantic’s InfoSpeed ADSL service (640Kbps)
- Microtek ScanMaker MX6 flatbed scanner (USB)
- Saitek Cyborg 3D USB joystick (USB)
- Que! Drive CD-RW drive (USB)
- Aiwa 8GB Travan tape drive (USB)
- Razer BoomSlang 5-button, 2000dpi “gaming mouse” (USB)
- Logitech WheelMouse (LED, no ball)
- GeeThree Stealth Serial Port (for LocalTalk to IIgs system (below))
- Cambridge SoundWorks “SoundWorks” satellite / bass speaker system
- Philips Nino 510 (color) (1999)
- 3Com Palm V (1999)
- Handspring Visor (1999)
- Apple IIgs system (1999)
- 2.8MHz 65C816, ROM 3 mobo (1.125MB RAM on-board) in “Limited Woz Edition” case
- Apple Color RGB Monitor
- Two Apple 3.5″ drives, Apple 5.25″ drive
- Sirius RAM IIgs mem exp. board w/ 4MB (5.125MB total in system) [previosuly unused]
- Kensington System Saver IIgs [previously unused]
- Focus ~500MB IDE hard-card [previously unused]
- SoundMeister )))stereo((( board (audio in/out)
- CH Products Mach III joystick
- Cambridge SoundWorks “PC Works” satellite / bass speaker system [previously unused]
- Psion Series 5mx (2000)
- NeXTstation Turbo Color system (2000)
- 33MHz 68040, 128MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD unit running NeXTSTEP v3.3
- 21″ MegaPixel Color Display
- NeXT SoundBox
- Toshiba 12x SCSI CD-ROM (ext)
- Netpliance i-opener “internet machine” – HACKED (2000)
- 200MHz IDT WinChip2 (w/ 3DNow!) (replacing orig. WinChip 200MHz)
- 4.8GB, 2.5″ IDE HD
- LinkSys 10/100Mbit USB->ethernet adapter
- PFUCA Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard
- Kensington Orbit trackball
- …running MS Windows 98
- Apple Newton MessagePad 130 (2000) [new]
- Apple Newton eMate 300 (2000) [new]
- Apple Power Macintosh 6100 (2000)
- 66MHz PowerPC 601 (33MHz system bus)
- 24MB RAM, 400MB int. HD, 480MB ext. HD
- 1MB L2 cache module [new]
- Apple 15″ Portrait Display (256-level greyscale, 640×870 res.)
- Zip Drive SCSI (ext.)
- Apple Design Keyboard & Apple ADB Mouse II [new]
- Apple Internet Transceiver (AAUI -> 10BaseT)
- Compaq iPAQ 3630 PocketPC (2000)
- Amiga 2000 (2000) [new]
- 7.14MHz 68000, ECS chipset, 1MB CHIP RAM
- GVP Series II HC+8 SCSI board w/ 770MB HD & 2MB FAST RAM [new]
- ASDG Dual Serial Board[new]
- Switch-Itt ROM Switcher (3.1 ROM & 1.3 ROM)
- 2nd internal 3.5″ floppy[new]
- Commodore 1084S RGB monitor
- Epyx 500XJ joystick [new]
- …running AmigaDOS 3.1 & AmigaDOS 1.3
- Amiga 1200 (Tower) (2000) [new]
- Escom Amiga 1200, 16MHz 68EC020, 2MB Chip RAM [new]
- ElBox “Winner Tower” (A1200 motherboard mounted in tower) [new]
- Blizzard A1260 68060 50MHz accelerator w/ 24MB Fast RAM [new]
- Blizzard SCSI module [new]
- 1GB Fujitsu SCSI HD
- 12x Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive [new]
- FlickerMasterT scan-doubler/flicker-fixer [new]
- Samtron 17″ monitor [new]
- …running AmigaOS 3.9
- Compaq iPAQ 3630 PocketPC (2001)
- CF sleeve converted to SilverSlider
- Viking 128MB CF card
- CF sleeve converted to SilverSlider
- Sony Playstation 2 (2001)
- Apple Power Mac G4 – Dual 800 (2001)
- Dual 800MHz G4 (PowerPC 7450 rev 2.1) processors (256K L2 cache)
- 768MB PC133 SDRAM
- Dual 2MB 400MHz (200MHz DDR) L3 caches
- 60GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP 7,200 RPM UltraATA drive (internal)
- 40GB IBM Deskstar 40GV 5,400 RPM UltraATA drive (internal)
- 160GB Maxtor 3000XT 5,400 RPM FireWire (Oxford 911) drive (external)
- SuperDrive (CD/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-R) (internal)
- Zip 250 drive (internal)
- nVIDIA GeForce 3 64MB graphics board (AGP4x)
- ATI Rage Orion (Rage 128) 16MB graphics board (PCI, for 2nd monitor)
- Dual Sony CPD-G420S 19″ FD Trinitron displays
- Apple 56Kbps modem (internal) replaced by GeeThree Stealth Serial Port (for network to IIgs)
- Epson Stylus 777i USB color inkjet printer
- Microtek ScanMaker X6 USB color, flatbed scanner
- Apple Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse (optical)
- Saitek Cyborg 3D USB joystick
- Cambridge SoundWorks “SoundWorks” 2.1 speaker system
- Apple iPod (2001)
- Sega Dreamcast (2002)
- Atari 800XL (2002)
- Atari 130XE (2002)
- 2x Atari 1050 5.25″ floppy drives
- Atari 1027 letter quality printer
- Sony Clie S360 (PalmOS) (2002)
- Apple Macintosh Plus (2002)
- 8MHz 68000 CPU
- Upgraded to 4MB RAM
- Asante EN/SC SCSI->Ethernet adapter [new]
- External Rodime 20MB SCSI HD
- Apple PowerCD (2002) [new]
- (Original) Macintosh (128K) (2002) [1901st Mac produced at Fremont, CA plant during 38th week of '84]
- 12″ Apple iBook 700 (2002)
- 700MHz IBM PowerPC G3 “Sahara” (512K L2 cache)
- 384MB RAM
- 40GB HD
- Combo DVD/CD-RW drive
- AirPort Wireless Networking
- Nintendo GameCube (2002)
- SGI O2 Workstation (2003)
- 175MHz MIPS R10000 CPU (1MB L2 cache)
- 256MB RAM
- 68GB Quantum UltraWide SCSI 10,000 RPM HD
- 12x SCSI CD-ROM drive
- A/V Module (audio, composite video, s-video in/out)
- O2 Cam
- SGI O2 Workstation Flat Panel Monitor Adapter
- SGI 1600SW Flat Panel Monitor (17.3″ diag, 1600×1024 res, 110dpi)
- “Granite” SGI keyboard & mouse
- Running IRIX v6.5.17m
- Acorn Archimedes A5000 (2003)
- TI-99/4A system (2003)
- TI-99/4A [NEW]
- 3.3MHz 16-bit TMS9900 CPU
- TI Peripheral Expansion Box
- TI 32K Memory Expansion Card
- Myarc RS-232 Card
- TI Disk Controller Card
- 5.25″ floppy drive
- HP-9000 712/60 (2003)
- 60MHz PA-RISC CPU
- 2GB SCSI HD
- 64MB RAM
- Running NeXTSTEP for PA-RISC v3.3
- Amiga 1200 (tower) (2004)
- Amiga 1200 motherboard (14.3MHz 68EC020 CPU) [new]
- Customized Noblesse ATX mid-tower case from Revanche LLC [new]
- Blizzard A1260 accelerator w/ 66MHz 68060 CPU (overclocked 60MHz unit)
- Blizzard SCSI module [new]
- 2MB CHIP RAM / 64MB FAST RAM
- 2GB SCSI HD
- NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive
- FlickerMagicT internal scan-doubler/flicker-fixer [new]
- Sony 19″ G420 CRT
- AmigaDOS v3.9 installed
- Pentium III 700 (2004)
- 700MHz Pentium III CPU
- 768MB PC100 SDRAM
- 20GB ATA HD
- 16x CD-ROM drive (EIDE)
- Voodoo3 AGP gfx board
- SoundBlaster Live! PCI soundcard
- 3Com 10/100 Ethernet board
- Power Macintosh G5 (2004)
- dual 2.5GHz G5 (PowerPC 970fx) CPUs
- 4.5GB RAM
- WD Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
- Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
- Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM external LaCie FireWire 800 HD (2MB cache)
- 30″ Apple Cinema Display
- GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL AGP video
- 3-port FireWire PCI card
- Apple iSight FireWire camera
- Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers
- Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 (2004)
- 162MHz StrongArm CPU
- 16MB linear flash card
- 8MB linear flash card
- US Robotics Megahertz 33.6Kbps PCMCIA modem w/ X-JACK connector
- Apple NiMH MP2x00 battery & Apple 4x AA battery tray
- Apple Newton eMate 300 (2004)
- Nintendo DS (2004)
- C64-DTV (2004)
- C-One (2004)
- Commodore 64C (2005)
- Commodore 64C computer
- 2x Commodore 1541 floppy drive (brown enclosure)
- Commodore 1702 monitor
- Mac mini (2005)
- 1.42GHz G4 Processor
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB HD
- “Combo drive” – DVD/CD/CD-RW
- Sony PSP (2005)
- 1GB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro DUO
- Apple //c (2005)
- 1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
- Apple Monitor //c and stand
- Apple Lisa 2/10 (2005)
- 5MHz MC68000 CPU
- 1MB RAM
- 10MB HD
- Shuttle XPC i-series (2005)
- 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (HT)
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB SATA 7200 RPM SATA HD
- eVGA GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express video
- Pioneer PDP-5060 50″ plasma HD display (1280×720 native)
- Logitech wireless (RF) keyboard & mouse
- Streamzap USB IR interface & remote
- Apple MacBook Pro (2006)
- 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 100GB 7200 RPM 2.5″ SATA HD
- Infrant ReadyNAS NV storage array (2006)
- 280MHz IT3107 CPU
- Four 500GB Seagate ST3500641AS Barracuda 7200.9 SATA hard drives
- X-RAID configuration yielding ~1.5TB redundant networked storage
- Nintendo DS Lite (2006)
- Atari Jaguar (2006)
- Apple Mac Pro (2006)
- dual 3GHz dual-core Xeon 5100 “Woodcrest” processors (quad core)
- 4GB FB-DIMM RAM
- WD Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA HD (16MB cache)
- WD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
- Seagate 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
- Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM external LaCie FireWire 800 HD (2MB cache)
- ATI Radeon X1900XT 512MB video card (PCI-Express)
- 30″ Apple Cinema Display (16:9)
- 20″ HP LP2065 Display (4:3, rotated)
- Apple iSight FireWire camera
- Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers
- Sega Saturn (2007)
- Action Replay cartridge
- analog controller (from NiGHTS)
- Palm V (2007)
- Atari 520ST (2007)
- dual Atari SF314 3.5″ floppy drives
- Atari SC1224 color RGB monitor
- MicroMate A520 STation all-in-one system stand
- Apple TV (2007)
- Vectrex (2007)
- Power Macintosh G3 (beige) system (2007)
- iPhone 8GB (2007)
- Epson PX-8 “Geneva” (2007)
- Sony Playstation 3 (2007)
- Samsung DVD-N501 (Nuon) (2008)
- TRS-80 Model 4 (2008)
- Apple iPhone 3G (16GB) (2008)
- MacBook (late 2008) (2008)
- Core 2 Duo (dual core) 2.4GHz
- 4GB RAM
- 128GB Patriot SSD
- mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter (for office connection to 20-inch Apple Cinema Display)
- Microsoft Arc Mouse
- Apple IIe (enhanced) (2008)
- Apple Color Monitor IIe
- dual Apple Disk II 5.25″ drives
- Apple DuoDisk drives (dead)
- Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card
- Apple SuperDrive (3.5″ floppy drive)
- Korean Mockingboard A clone (sound card)
- Apple 2G iPod touch (16GB) (2009)
- Apple iPhone 3GS (32MB) (2009)
- Amiga 1000 (2009)
- Commodore 1080 RGB monitor
- Microbotics Starboard II (2MB RAM + SCSI controller)
- 500MB SCSI HD in MicroNet enclosure
- Commodore 1010 external floppy drive
- SAM440ep Flex system (2009)
- 733MHz PowerPC 440 SoC
- 128MB Radeon 9250 PCI graphics card
- Running AmigaOS 4.1
- Sega Nomad (2009)
- Apple iPad 64GB (WiFi version) (2010)
- Apple iPhone 4 (32MB) (2010)
- HP desktop (2010)
- Athlon II X4 630 (quad-core) 2.8GHz
- 4GB RAM
- GeForce 8800 GT
- Sony CPD-G420S 19″ FD Trinitron display
- Samsung 20″ (4:3) LCD
- Running Windows 7 64-bit
- Apple TV (second revision) (2010)
- MacBook Air 11.6″ (2010)
- 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo CPU
- 4GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- Texas Instruments CC-40 (2010)
- w/ TI HexBus 300-baud HexBus external modem
- Tandy Color Computer 3 (2011)
- 512K RAM
- FD-500 dual-floppy drive system
- DriveWire 3
- Tandy Speech Sound Cartridge
- Tandy Color Mouse
- Tandy Deluxe Joystick
- Apple iPad 2 (64GB) (2011)
- Apple iPhone 4S (64GB) (2011)
- Apple 27-inch iMac (“mid-2011″)
- 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 processor
- 16GB DDR3 RAM (1333MHz)
- AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GPU
- 256GB SSD + 2TB HD internal storage
- Dual external displays
- Tandy Color Computer 2 (2012)
::::: Last updated: February 2, 2012
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