From 1986 I did all the work for my friend's boardgames on an Atari 520ST. It came with no hard drive, so I eventually purchased a Zip drive from Iomega and a 20 MB (yes megabyte) HD.
In 1996 I bought my first PC:
AMD don't remember what.
Windows 95 (later upgraded to 98)
Never knew the graphics card or sound card.
10 GB HD, and I wondered how I would ever fill it up.
Bought it mainly to play Red Baron 2, but quickly discovered the original Silent Hunter.
2005:
Intel Pentium 4, 3Ghz
512K RAM, since upgraded to 2 and then 4GB
160GB hard drive, which I initially thought I'd never fill up. It's still the only internal drive, but I have a 2TB external that holds all my files.
128KB graphics card, later upgraded to 512 and then a 1GB ATI 4650 (the biggest I could get for an AGP slot)
Onboard sound, since replaced with a cheap SoundBlaster card, which does the job quite well.
And that's the one I still use, as I've never been able to afford a replacement.
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