Up until last summer, when I bought an AMD XP 2600+, I had a Pentium MMX 233, 64MB EDO RAM, 4MB SiS Integrated graphics, and an ISA sound card. It ran Windows 95 and was slow as heck.
My uncle is a professional Database programmer and his home computer is a 133MHz something, he has finally asked me to build him an extremely fast computer (3.6GHz P4, 2GB Corsair etc.).