My computers in time. – Salix's blog

Today i realized that i am programming for maybe more than 25 years (that is 35 years in 2021) (still have gw-basic printouts) and i started thinking the machines i owned and special ones i worked on.

I decided to update this post as the story goes on.

So the story starts around 1985 or something:

Sinclair ZX-Specturum +2
Euro-PC (intel 8088, single 3.5″ floppy) – 1989
Cordata (intel 8088, 2 floppies!!) – 1990 If I recall right, it needed about 5 minutes to compile a 4-5000 lines clipper code. The processor unit was like the one in the photo, but the monitor was monochrome with orange letters.
Huyndai (intel 8088+8087, 640kB RAM, 20Mb HD, yes Mb) – 1991
some-brand (intel 386 or it was AMD? 80Mb hard drive) later had my first color VGA monitor with that pc and some time after that, I upgraded her to intel 486 and larger drive 120MB.
some-brand (intel PI)
some-brand (intel PIII)
Acer aspire something (notebook) – 2004
some-brand desktop (intel P4) – 2005
Acer travelmate something (notebook) – 2005
Dell Latitute 110l (notebook) 2006-2010
some-brand desktop (intel Core2Duo) – 2008-2010
Dell Inspiron 1564 (i3) – 2010 – 2019. I owned this period, but used it till 2012 that I got the desktop. The little thing couldn’t handle it, overheating after the first year. Serviced for this in official service, but no improvement. A real disappointment. My verdict is that for heavy use Latitute series are the way to go, Inspiron series are for lite use. I never purchased a laptop again for me. Helena used it for the rest of the time, until it had too many issues to fix and she got a new one to replace it and another to replace the replacement.
Dell Optiplex 390 (i5) – 2012 – Jan 2021. All this period was turned on.
Dell Optiplex 3080 (i5 10500) Jan 2021 – present