Ed's Computers Past and Present
From SnOwy - Ed's Wiki Notebook
This is a list of computers in reverse chronological order that I've had, architectural notes and primary role.
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Machines used in Gradschool
Tin - C2D 2.2Ghz
- Macbook Pro Circa 2007
Primary machine for mostly everything.
Pewter - C2D 2.0Ghz
- Macbook Circa 2007
Acquired second hand at a discount.
Zinc - C2D 1.87Ghz
- Mac Mini Circa 2007
Acquired as a refurbished item from the Apple Store; is the current webserver.
Machines used in Undergrad
Bronze - P4 2.4Ghz Compaq Laptop [Destroyed]
Tragically dropped too many times. The first dozen drops finally resulted in an optical drive failure. The final drop roughly four years into its life was fatal, causing the power inlet and surrounding structure to be destroyed. I'm lucky the thing didn't light up on fire considering where I hit it. The battery life ended up being sufficient for a burst of ten minutes of operation by the end of its life. This was the first laptop that I owned. Everything from its hard drive was sucked out and into an external after providing power to it long enough with an ad hoc vice-clamped power inlet.
Teal - P4 2.0Ghz [To Be Donated]
A general purpose Windows 2K machine. Is now no longer needed and should probably be reformatted and donated somewhere. At 2.0Ghz, this item is still a very viable machine. I've used it as a test bed for software ported to windows / win32 / .Net (as far as could be expected to run in Win2K) as well as to offload one core's worth of parallel operation in neural network benchmarking. Teal has served me well but is likely to find a new home soon.
Machines used in Highschool
Lavender - P4 2.0Ghz
A machine that I've kept and redubbed Teal.
Crimson - P4 2.0Ghz
Crimson is currently not in my possession. It is a Pentium IV machine running Windows XP. I should probably finally go back and upgrade the thing with a USB 2.0 root hub.
Machines used from K-8
Some 486 Machine
Very vague memories exist for this item. I think it was the one that I eventually gave a hard disk crash to because Windows 3.1 didn't correctly handle writing outside of the physical bounds of the harddrive's discs' surfaces. While it was working though, Doom, Descent and Warcraft were favourites.
Tandy
I inherited a good ol' Tandy brand PC from an uncle. This computer featured a GUI that predates Windows 3.x that operated in glorious 16 colour and offered hours of entertainment. Of course, the software on it was mostly office software with the notable exception of Treasure Mountain. Who could ever forget that cute little piece of pixelated edutainment.
