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... so here we go with a small history of my machines through the years.  A list prior to 2007 starts after the pics.
  laptop 2005
This is my 2005 HP Pavilion zd8000
Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz, 2GB RAM (With help from Buzz and Cookie Monster)
My Uncle Ed bought this back in the day.  You would of had a hard time finding anything bigger than this six months after he bought the thing.  It was a huge machine for the time. We use it here in the Smith Household in 2012		  
computer 2007
This is my personal office computer.  It has been hit with a couple bugs through the years, reformatted, new hard drives, and several peripherals added and removed.  Good machine.
  I built computer in 2007.  Bought most parts off e-bay. Originally had windows xp pro, but upgraded to Windows Vista in 2011.

  The empty slot is where I took my Sound Blaster card out.  It was not compatible with Vista.

   2.4 GHz AMD 64 Processor 4000
  2.00 GB RAM
 300 GB Hard Drive -
 1 TB Backup on the side there.
music computer
2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64
2 GB RAM
Not a whole lot of storage on this machine.
I use it to record on. 
It is not hooked up to the internet
and has no other programs installed
other than my audio recording software
Cakewalk /  Sonar

Built in 2007 from parts bought on e-bay and computer fair.
 

 I had my first encounter with a computer in 9th grade at Fred T. Foard High School.  An Apple

I had my second encounter several years later when I taught as a substitute at Glades County High School in Glades County Florida.  They had Windows 95'

I moved back to N.C. and my in-laws had a windows 95 based system and upgraded to a 98 soon after my return.

I took the plunge, and in January of 1999 I bought a "Top-of-the-line" computer from Sears.  It was a windows 98 system.  Don't know the specs, but I upgraded the system myself with RAM, video card, and sound card. 

  I bought a race track for the kids that past Christmas.  The cars continually flew off the track.  Like I couldn't remember the troubles I had had as a kid when my little cheap race cars wouldn't stay on the track that good.
  I immediately thought, "Go buy Midtown Madness by Microsoft."  I mean, it was a computer game that was competing, at the time, with game consoles.

  First the "Install Wizard" wouldn't let it install because the specs for the Computer didn't come up to the game standard.  Remember, I just bought a "Top-of-the-lion" computer from Sears.
  Remember those days when Sears had a big computer section in their store?
  I had to go to Circuit City and purchase the sound card.  Then back to get more RAM.  Then back to learn about Video Cards. 
  I often wonder, "Did I get a top-of-the-line" computer from Sears like the salesman made it out to be, or did a get last years model in a new case?

 

  Anyway, I took that computer to Northern Ireland and used it to communicate with my friends and family through e-mail through with our 56k modem.

  During my first four years in Northern Ireland I built a couple computers from the ground up.  e.g. Purchased a case and then a motherboard, then all the peripherals I needed and away we went.
  I had a couple copies of Windows 98 pro. and a copy of Windows Office.

  Remember when systems were loaded with real programs?  Now you don't know what you are getting on a windows based system from the big stores.  That is why the Geek Squad and such will "clean" your computer before you take it home.
  This is why I loved to reformat my hard drive and start clean.

  Many times I would just purchase a new hard drive, they were growing in data storage by the day, and make it a slave drive on my new drive and copy the files I needed and then use the old drive for a backup or use it for a new system.

  I finally upgraded to Windows XP Pro in 2004.  And it is there that I stayed until 2009.

  It is from here that my actual imaged time line comes into play at the top of the page.