Computers
I’ve had many computers over the years, although some of them have sadly been lost during ‘The Year of Moving’ (a one year period I moved 5 times).
Takochi
The newest member of the family, Takochi is a Lenovo 3000 v100 running Kubuntu Linux.
Slater
Nicknamed ‘Slater’, he is my Fujitsu 5010D TabletPC slate (not to be confused with Slater from Saved by the Bell). He is a true TabletPC: lightweight, excellent battery life, amazing hibernation recovery speeds, no keyboard, and awesome pen resolution, sensitivity, and feedback.
- Intel Pentium M processor 1.0 GHz (Intel 855GME) 1 MB on-die L2 cache; 400 MHz system bus speed
- 768MB SDRAM
- 12.1″ XGA LCD indoor viewable
- Windows XP TabletPC edition
Straylight
Straylight is my Fujitsu P2000 sub-notebook. A gift from 2002, this snappy and light-weight friend is still one of my primary machines.
- 933MHz Crusoe TM5800 (ALi M1535); 512KB on-die L2 cache; 133MHz system bus speed
- 384MB SDRAM
- 10.6″ wide-format SXGA TFT display up to 1280×768 (ATI Mobility Radeon)
- Kubuntu 6 (Dapper)
Rarae
Rarae was an inherited box from a friend in 2004. Now I am giving her a good home and putting her to good use.
- Dell Dimension 4100
- Kubuntu (Dapper) Linux
Sebastien
Sebastien is my homebrew PC I first built in 2001. Although parts have been swapped in an out over the years, his heart has stayed the same.
[stats forthcoming...]
Lazerus
Lazerus was another product of a successful dumpster dive, this time behind the CS building of the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. This bugger had some strange stuff going on with his BIOS (posted as 12MHz, yet was clearly not a dinosaur) but ran as a firewall quite fine for two semesters. Why ‘Lazerus’? He was far gone by the time I got to him, and it took a lot of love and pain to get him resurrected. He was retired in the move of 2004.
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Hal
Hal was, well.. very ‘independent’. Rescued from a dumpster outside Carnegie Mellon University in 2000, he served me well as the first host of obso1337.org. Over time it was easy to see his independence (as his name implies); something shorted in his wiring caused him to produce unpredictable data. Nevertheless he ran Debian without (much) trouble. He was retired in the move of 2004.
[stats forthcoming...]
Patrik
Patrik was my Toshiba laptop I took with me to College in 1999. At the time he was quite impressive, he possessed one of the first portable DVD players and a whopping 14.1 inch LCD. Talk about stacked. He was retired when Straylight replaced him in 2001.
[stats forthcoming...]
Skaven
Skaven was my first PC. After years of use, he was converted in to a demo box in order to run old school assembly graphics demos on native hardware. He was retired in the move of 2004.
[stats forthcoming...]
Honorable Mentions
I should also mention my other guys.. they are computers afterall and computers have feelings too!
Nintendo DS
I lost interest in the shiny, pretty, things, and traded in my Sony PSP for the Nintendo DS. The DS impressed me more than I expected, it has excellent gaming options and the form factor is much more comfortable than I expected. I am also very pleased with the pointing interface and its resolution. My current favorite game is Sudoku.
Sony PSP
Hey, I got this baby running homebrew SuDoKu and surfing the net before Sony had a chance to blink.
Sony Playstation 1 and 2
Not as interesting, but worth mentioning
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Education game console
Nintendo Gameboy
Years of addictive entertainment.
Magnavox Odyssey 2
- Release Date: 1977
- Processor: Intel 8048
- Data: Cartrige
- Input: Keyboard, Joystick