My (and my family's) computers, in order of acquisition:

Wintermute

323 MB hard drive, 100 MHz processor of some unknown type, 7 MB RAM, broken 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives, Deep Thought's broken CD-ROM drive, AcerView 33D SVGA monitor monitor, MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1, 14.4k Intel internal modem.
value: approx. $2000 at time of purchase... 10+ years ago

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Deep Thought

"Gateway Essential 400", 10 GB + 1.7 GB hard drives, 400 MHz Celeron, 64 MB RAM, 8x Sony CD-ROM (from Wintermute), 3.5 floppy drive, Gateway monitor, Windows 98, 56k internal modem.
value: kindly donated

Tempest

6 GB + 2 GB hard drives, 200-ish MHz, 64 MB RAM, 48x CD-ROM, 3.5 floppy, 8x CD-RW, ZIP drives, no monitor (uses Wintermute's), video capture + output card, Windows ME, 33.6k Motorola ModemSURFR external modem.
value: kindly donated

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Yes, that is a pile of socks in the lower left corner.

Neuromancer

NEC Versa 4080H laptop, 120 MHz Pentuim, 1 GB hard drive, 40 MB RAM, 3.5 floppy drive, 800x600 TFT color screen, Windows 95, 3Com 56k + LAN PCMCIA card
value: $85

Hactar

2.4 GHz Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.0 GHz, 80 + 4 GB hard drives, 768 MB RAM, 8/12x DVD-RW and 24x CD-ROM, SyncMaster 793MB monitor, PNY Verto NVidia GeForce 5200
Value: $700(-ish)

The Earth

One of these dealies.

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