Home computer setup

Mir

My desktop system, Mir, I built and have upgraded myself. Most components are now at least 2 years old and the computer (mainly the case :-) as a whole is 5 years old, so it's a bit behind the cutting edge...

• Some generic socket-7 motherboard, 256KB L2 cache
• Intel Pentium 200mhz processor
• 64 MB 60ns EDO RAM
• PCI Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 with 2 MB video RAM (ViRGE chipset)
• PCI Diamond Monster 3D with 4 MB video RAM (3DFX Voodoo1 chipset)
• PCI 100BaseT tulip ethernet card
• ISA Sound Blaster 32
• 4 GB Western Digital hard disk
• 12 GB Western Digital hard disk
• 8 GB IBM 2.5-inch hard disk (scavanged from my old, broken laptop)
• 24X Mitsumi CD-ROM drive
• generic floppy disk drive
• Iomega parallel port zip drive
• Labtec CS-800 computer speakers
• Logitech mouseman, 3 buttons
• Keytronic 104-key keyboard
• MAG Innovision DX15T 15-inch Trinitron monitor
• Sleek matte-black chasse :-)

As of this writing, this is running Linux 2.4.19-pre4 with the unstable Debian "Cid" distribution

Zarya

I also own a laptop, an IBM Thinkpad A21p.

• Mobile Pentium III "Coppermine" processor @ 850 mhz
• 512 MB SDRAM
• ATI Rage Mobility M3 16MB AGP video chipset
• Lucent Orinoco silver 802.11b wireless ethernet card
• Xircom PCMCIA 10/100baseT ethernet card
• 32 GB IBM hard disk
• 4X DVD drive
• floppy drive
• Tiny, tinny, built-in speakers
• Trackpoint ("nipple") ouchpad w/3 buttons
• Keyboard
• 15-inch 1600x1200 LCD display
• Jet black case

As of this writing, this is also running Linux 2.4.16 based on the unstable Debian distribution.

Sputnik

My previous laptop, an ARM Computer TS3100 died after a long struggle with incompetent engineering. Basically, the thing broke, the power port stopped making contact and so the system couldn't recharge batteries or really run at all because it was incredibly badly designed. After many, many repairs, I gave up and shelved it. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY, THEIR COMPUTERS SUCK.