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Originally Posted by Katana1000S
My first foray into flight sim was actually an Amiga 500 with half a meg of ram, it came with a basic Flight sim called Bob Dimmermans (I think) FA-18 Interceptor ... wow, all of a sudden I was defending the US and making carrier landings and shooting down Migs, I only wanted the Amiga to sort of do a data base for all my CD's an vinyl records.
This was unheard of.
After that I bought a PC from a guy in Aberdeen, Intel 33MHz with 2 MB (yes 2MB of ram) and a hard drive so small it would not hold a modern days OS swap file, but that got me into Falcon 3.0, Fleet Defender and lots of others.
Have been building my own ever since.
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He he, we are getting old
Started on the Spectrum myself with "Fighter Pilot". I have actually saved a little list of all my computers to not forget them. Home built since the P75
Year CPU Memory GPU
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1982 ZX Spectrum 48kb ???
1985 286-12 512kb ???
1989 386Dx-33 1Mb 1Mb SVGA
1992 486Dx-50 2Mb Trio64 LB
1994 Pentium 75 4Mb Matrox Millenium I
1995 Pentium 120 8Mb Matrox Millenium I
1996 Pentium 166MMX 16Mb Matrox Millenium I / 3dfx Voodoo
1999 Pentium 2 400Mhz 64Mb ATI Rage Pro / 2x Voodoo 2
2001 AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 512Mb Geforce 3
2003 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1,6 Ghz 1Gb Radeon 9800 Pro
2004 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2,166 Ghz 2Gb ATI X800 Pro
2006 Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 Ghz 4Gb Geforce 8800 GTX
2008 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.33 Ghz 6Gb Geforce 275GTX
2011 Intel Core i7 2600k 3,4 Ghz 8Gb Geforce 580GTX
Some day I will get back to AMD I hope - but not on the first gen Bulldozer at least