I got a 386 and a year after, I upgraded it to a 486DX4. This is, my mother bought those. I was too young to work, ha, ha. Later, I bought an old 286 from a friend and I upgraded it directly to a Pentium 200MHz with MMX. At this point, I stayed like that for several years. In 2005, I had my first reasonable job and I was able to afford buying a computer myself. I went for a Celeron 700MHz, which was not what people were buying then, but the Pentium IVs that were common then did not have motherboards with ISA slots and I wanted to be able to use my SB AWE64, that was DOS compatible. That was the last computer for which I really put attention to the specs. After that, I've always bought what's "average", since all computers seem to be much faster and have much more of everything that I may need for the use I give them.
