Yep, I have enough computers that they get their own page! This will be broken up into two categories: computers I own, and computers that I don't own but am involved with in some way.
Maybe at some point I'll explain where the names come from.
Computers I own
Arianna - built in the summer of 2001
- Design: Standard ATX Tower (upgraded to a 300W power supply)
- CPU: AMD Athlon ("Thunderbird") 1200-C
- RAM: 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (CAS 2.5)
- Motherboard: Epox 8KHA - Via KT266
- Video: nVidia GeForce 2 GTS 32MB (its an Asus board with TV-Out and Video-In ability)
Attached to a Samsung 17" CRT Display, and occasionally the 25" Television for DVD - Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy Platinum (added around Christmas 2001. Before that used onboard sound which sucks)
Connected to a Yamaha 5.1 Digital Home Theatre System (using 6 channel discrete Analog inputs) (added in Summer 2002, before this I had two channel small computer speakers) - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm ATA/100 Hard Drive, Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM, Pacific Digital MACH40 40/16/48 CD-RW Drive
- Inputs: Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard (previous keyboard was more plain and destroyed by a random act of cat spilling orange juice on it
Logitech MX 500 Optical Mouse (both connected via USB) (before this mouse, I had an older standard Logitech Optical Mouse) - Current OS: Windows XP Professional
- Internet: Connected to ADSL via a 100mbps switched Ethernet network.
- Other OS' installed at some point: Windows 2000 Professional
- Printer: Lexmark Z45 SE (before that: Liz' Epson Stylus 740)
- Extras: Firewire DV Video Camcorder that Liz got.
- Notes: Arianna is my current computer. I got this machine in part thanks to help from Dad for school, since Sashenka was really not suited to compiling Java applets, Visual Basic programs, or whatever else I can throw around.
Sashenka - bought sometime in the summer of 1998
- Design: Laptop with a nifty screen
- CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium ("Tillamook") 233MMX
- RAM: 128MB PC66 SDRAM (SODIMM package) (originally 64MB)
- Motherboard: No idea, some mobile one
- Video: S3 Virge-MX 4MB adapter (with TV and CRT out options) (this baby got 10x more performance in Direct3D then OpenGL... but 10x basically nothing still isn't much)
Attached to a 14" TFT LCD Display that I love (and cost $1400 to replace) - Sound: Damned if I can remember now.
Connected to Laptop speakers that were pretty lousy. It put out decent sound with external speakers or headphones. - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, some brand 6GB Laptop Hard Drive (originally 4GB, but that died and wiped out 6 months of email), 32x CD-ROM drive (originally a Teac 24x, replaced under Warranty when I played so much Brood War that it died)
- Inputs: Laptop keyboard and touchpad.
External Microsoft Intellimouse (PS/2) was used for games. Damn that was a good mouse. - Current OS: Windows 98 SE
- Internet: Used a 3com 56K CardBus modem to dial into Inforamp/iStar/PSI.Net/Inter.net Canada (all the same ISP). Before that used a USR 56k modem that got broken due to a phone cord mishap. At work I used a 10/100 CardBus card to connect through their connection, and at the Alliston Learning Center I used a 10/100 PCMCIA card (which was basically a 10/15 in reaility) to connect using their dual funky connections.
- Other OS' installed at some point: Windows 2000 Beta 2, Windows 98, Slackware Linux (don't ask), Windows NT Workstation/Server (hell, I even had Exchange Server installed at one point)
- Notes: Sashie was my main computer for years. As evidenced by all the things I had to replace, laptops are kind of fragile for someone like me who uses them 10 hours a day 6 days a week for a couple of years. She did really well though.
Jadzia - bought sometime in 1992-1993 (this is a bit fuzzy, but DebtAngel figures it was 1993. So I'm going to go with that)
- Design: IBM Tower from those days (perhaps a very early ATX design, it did have PS/2 ports and wasn't insane to get into like most AT cases from... well ever)
- CPU: Intel 486 DX/2 66 (originally a DX 33)
- RAM: 24MB 72pin SIMM Memory (started with eight (system came with four, had to buy the extra four for only $450))
- Motherboard: Good god who knows. It has a VESA port on it though.
- Video: Some kind of S3 1MB card. Hey it was pretty good for its time.
Attached to a 14-15" CRT that Matt borrowed and apparently never returned in early 2002 - Sound: A Soundblaster 16 clone (one of the half-duplex ones that also had the CD-ROM controller on it, this motherboard is from before the days of dual IDE controllers and ATAPI)
Connected to the same speakers that Arianna started off with (Creative SMS 20). Before that, it had a small pair of Koss speakers that didn't need external power at all, which was nifty. - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, Western Digital 340MB Hard Drive (and a 1GB Seagate drive added on later from Ariela that gave me a lot of grief, since the controller only supported up to 528MB), and a 2x Mitsumi CD-ROM connected to the soundcard's controller.
- Inputs: IBM PS/2 Keyboard that weighed 20 pounds and sounded like a machine gun. In short: Excellent equipment.
Also had an IBM PS/2 Mouse and later a Microsoft Intellimouse. - Current OS: Windows 95
- Internet: Used a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 External Modem to get to the Internet through Inforamp, BBS systems, games with DebtAngel over modem, and everything else.
- Other OS' installed at some point: MS-DOS 6.2 & Microsoft Windows 3.1 (concurrently of course)
- Notes: Jadzia was my first computer. Dad got this one for his business stuff, only to discover that it actually would take a few more years for them to finish what they were going to do. Oops.
Other Computers
I didn't own these machines. (technically I didn't own Jadzia either, but shut up) These are machines that I administered for other people, and in some cases built myself.
Seiya - July 2003
- Owner: Liz
- Design: Antec Performance II ATX Mini Tower - in black!
- CPU: AMD Athlon XP (Palomino) 1800+ (1533MHz)
- RAM: 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (Micron, CAS2.5)
- Motherboard: Asus A7S333 (without the Firewire ports for some reason)
- Video: Chaintech GeForce 2 MX
Attached to a 19" AOpen display - Sound: Soundblaster Live 5.1
- Drives: 15GB ATA/33 Hard Drive, 4/2.4/8 HP 300i DVD+RW burner (16/10/32 cd burner speeds I think), Iomega Internal Zip drive
- Inputs: Logitech Internet Keyboard/Optical Mouse, Wacom Graphire 2 Graphics Tablet
- Current OS: Windows XP Pro
- Extras: Small Digital Camera
- Notes: This is Liz' new machine. Pretty well all the parts came from somewhere else, the board, cpu, video, and sound all came from Liz' dad a week or two earlier when he upgraded to a Barton 2400+ on an nForce 2 board. The drives came from Pikachu (except for the DVD burner), as did the inputs. Really, the only new things are the case, the memory, and the DVD burner. Still, its a pretty sweet machine, and really quiet!
Dalifi - built in 1998
- Owner: My Mom & her Husband. I built it for them.
- Design: Standard ATX Tower
- CPU: Intel Pentium III ("Coppermine") 600 (originally a Pentium II "Klamath" 300)
- RAM: 256MB PC100 SDRAM (originally 64, then 128)
- Motherboard: Asus P3B (440BX chipset - originally a P2B that we upgraded)
- Video: nVidia Riva TNT 2 32MB (board built by Creative Labs) (originally a Riva TNT 16MB)
Attached to a Samsung 17" CRT Display (originally a cheap 15", what a difference that made) - Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value
Connected to some computer speakers, and occasionally their really nice stereo. But the SBLive has some hissing issues with that (the Audigy fixes that thankfully) - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, Quantum 6GB ATA/33 Hard Drive, Acer 40x CD-ROM (was a lousier one, but we gave that to somebody else)
- Inputs: os Internet Keyboard, os Optical Mouse, both on USB (originally a cheap keyboard and an Intellimouse PS/2)
- Current OS: Windows 2000 Professional
- Internet: Cable Modem, with a second 10/100 card and a crossover cable for when I come over :-) (before that they used a USR 56k modem to dialup)
- Other OS' installed at some point: Windows 98, Windows 98 SE
- Extras: os Sidewinder Precision Pro USB Joystick, os Force Feedback Racing Wheel/Pedals (this machine has a lot of MS stuff doesn't it?)
- Notes: Mom and Ken got this machine to have a computer, and Ken soon discovered the world of gaming. I still have to send them Warcraft 3 (bad Chris!). Its held up pretty well as a gaming machine, and is only really showing its age now.
Pikachu - built in fall 1999
- Owner: Liz.
- Design: Standard ATX Tower
- CPU: Intel Pentium III ("Katmai") 450
- RAM: 256MB PC100 SDRAM (originally less then that :) )
- Motherboard: Something based on a 440BX chipset (formally an Abit board, but that died in a power spike and the warranty replaced it with this no name one instead)
- Video: nVidia Riva TNT 2 32MB
Attached to a 17" CRT Display - Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live Value
Connected to some computer speakers with a subwoofer (or a "super woofer" as they call it) - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, 15GB ATA/33 7200rpm (Liz swears its so) Hard Drive, 44x CD-ROM, and a 4/2/10 CD-RW drive
- Inputs: Logitech Internet Navigator and Optical Mouse very similar to those on Arianna
- Current OS: Windows XP Professional
- Internet: ADSL connected over a 100mbps switched network, just like Arianna. We're on the same network! (previously used a 56k modem to dial into NBNet)
- Other OS' installed at some point: Windows 95, Windows 2000 Professional
- Extras:
- Notes: It'll almost play Warcraft 3 smoothly, Debt and I both think a video card upgrade is all thats needed.
Elayne - I forget when
- Owner: Dad's Office
- Design: Standard ATX Tower
- CPU: AMD K6 266
- RAM: 64MB SDRAM
- Motherboard: A cheapo Via/Shuttle board.
- Video: I forget, but its less then expensive.
Attached to a 15" CRT Display - Sound: Some 16bit card that couldn't play MP3 music properly. I had to swap out the card from Jadzia to do that.
Usually with no speakers, so it doesn't matter. This is an office computer. - Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, 6GB ATA/33 Hard Drive, 24x CD-ROM
- Inputs: Random cheap keyboard and a os Intellimouse (are you sensing a theme here? that mouse rocked!)
- Current OS: Windows 98
- Internet: Sharing a 56k modem with the rest of the computers at Dads work. The Dell computer (P3 733) dials, the rest just use that over the LAN.
- Other OS' installed at some point: none
- Extras:
- Notes: This was meant to be a work computer that did work tasks, and nothing else. It was meant to be cheap. It succeeded, and was reasonably stable.
Janona - 2000
- Owner: TMR, my old work
- Design: Wonky AT Mini Tower that demanded blood
- CPU: Intel Pentium 200 (not sure if it was MMX or not)
- RAM: 32MB EDO
- Motherboard: Who knows
- Video: Something cheap
Attached to a 15" CRT Display - Sound: Nothing
- Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, 2GB Hard Drive, 4x CD-ROM
- Inputs: Random cheap keyboard and serial mouse
- Current OS: Last time I was there, Red Hat Linux 7. Presumably its still running.
- Internet: Used works connection, which is a cable modem over a 100mbps network.
- Other OS' installed at some point: none
- Extras:
- Notes: This machine ran at work as the mail server, among other tasks. It also served to hold a Mysql database for various purposes that was on the Internet for a while, including a version of my random quotes and the HTTP Gateway.
Luci - 1998?
- Owner: Matt
- Design: Dude, its a Del!
- CPU: Intel Pentium 200 (not sure if it was MMX or not)
- RAM: 32MB EDO
- Motherboard: Who knows
- Video: Matrox Mystique 4MB (I think, it might have been a Millennium card too)
Attached to a 15" CRT Display - Sound: Soundblaster 16
- Drives: 1.44MB Floppy, 3*6GB hard drive in a Software Raid 0 array
- Inputs: Random cheap keyboard and PS/2 mouse
- Current OS: Windows NT 4 Server
- Extras:
- Notes: Luci was built as the Domain Controller for our little group at school, known as AOTR. Luci did a few things, primarily serving as an MP3 repository (disk space was expensive back then!), holding an image of the Starcraft CD that we could use to play without the CD, running the Free Standard Game Server so we could play internal network games over TCP/IP, and of course periodically going crazy and packetstorming the entire network for no apparent reason.