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What could possibly
be more pointless than a house full of computers? A house full of outdated
computers? Maybe, maybe not, but here is the current inventory of what's
sitting in this house.
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| My Machine |
Being the main computer geek
in the house, I get the most powerful machine, everything else works on
the trickle down theory. My current workhorse is:
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intel
Pentium4 2.4 Ghz
Albatron PX845PEV Pro Mobo Ever 10 bay ATX case (black) 1Gb PC3200 memory Maxtor 300Gb Hard Drive WD 80Gb SE Hard Drive NEC 8X DVD+/- R/RW Drive Samsung 16x40x DVD ROM 3.5" Floppy ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128M IBM P200 20" SVGA Monitor Dell 19" LCD display Creative Soundblaster Live! |
3Com 10/100 network adapter |
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| My Notebook |
Geeks
had a nice deal on Dell notebooks (and aparently someone had already exchanged
the volatile battery out in this one, it works well, and wasn't on the
recall list)
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Dell
D600 with:
1.6Ghz Pentium M (centrino) 512M DDR266 memory 30G Hard drive LiIon battery Power adaptor Removable CDRW/DVDROM drive ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 |
14"
TFT XGA screen
ESS audio (with speakers) Gigabit Ethernet Agere V.90 56K modem Dell 802.11g WiFi miniPC card Dell integrated Bluetooth adaptor |
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| My
Mac |
Believe
it or not, after 22 years of DOS/Windows, I finally have a Macintosh.
I have some upgrades planned (lets face it, there's only so much I can
do, but for now...
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Apple
iMac graphite with:
600 MHz G3 processor 512Mb PC133 memory 40Gb Hard Drive Slot load CDRW Drive |
15"
SVGA Monitor
ATI Rage Pro 16M IBM Multimedia Keyboard Microsoft Optical Mouse |
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| The Battle Cruiser | This one is my first major case modification project. | |
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AMD Athlon 64 3200
Abit KX7-333 Mobo Ever ATX case 512M PC2100 memory Maxtor 120 Gig Hard Drive LiteOn 4X DVD+R/W Acer 16X40X DVD ROM 3.5" Floppy |
Asus geForce ti4200 64M
Proview 19" monitor Logisys 17" trueflat Monitor Ensoniq AudioPCI Linksys 10/100 network card 56k V.90 PCI Winmodem Panasonic Multimedia Speakers IBM Multimedia Access Keyboard IBM Optical Mouse |
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| Have a Bad Day |
Yet
another case mod project.
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| AMD
1GHz Duron ECS K7AMA Mobo Midtower ATX case 512M PC133 memory WD 40 Gig Hard Drive Transcend Radeon 9000 64M |
ProView
17" Monitor integrated audio Labtec Pulse 420 IBM Keyboard Labtec Optical Mouse |
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| Sharon's Machine |
Sharon's machine doesn't
need a lot of power, most of what she does is surf the web, and make up
homework papers using Word. But since it's in her bedroom now, it does
need to be smaller than her old one.
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| Compaq evo D540 with: intel 2.4 GHz P4 intel 845 motherboard 256M PC2700 40G hard drive Panasonic CDRW/DVD drive int Intel Extreme graphics Dell 19" LCD Monitor |
CyberAcoustic speakers w/sub int network, sound Microsoft Internet keyboard Microsoft Optical Mouse HP DJ970 Tripplite Internet Office 350 UPS |
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| Sharon's Notebook | Sharon's notebook is my old notebook. What can I say, it still works good, and she probably won't use it very often anyway... | |
| Compaq
EVO N600c with: Intel Mobile Pentium III 1.066G Messenger notebook case 512 PC133 memory 40G hard drive 8 cell LiIon battery Power adaptor Removable DVDRom drive Removable Superdisk Floppy |
8X4X24 CDRW in slim
usb case |
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| Laura's Machine |
I saw a good deal on a better
board that would fit in Laura's flex case, so we upgraded her to something
that could run NOLF2 (so she can help me save the world from H.A.R.M.).
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intel 1.8GHz P4 |
Integrated
Audio Labtec powered speakers Dlink 802.11b USB adapter Belkin Optical Miniscroller Mouse IBM Rapid Response keyboard APC BackUPS 350 |
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| NT Server |
This equipment runs all the
time, and provides central storage for MP3 and emulator files, a print
server, and gives me a chance to work with NT.
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Intel
Pentium 133
AOpen Socket7 Midtower Case 48 Meg Memory 850 Meg Hard Drive (system) 9 Gig SCSI2 Hard Drive (data) DTC SCSI2 controller card 50x Afreey CDRom Drive ATI UltraVGA Video |
Sceptre
13" Mono VGA Monitor
Dlink 10/100 network Card IBM Keyboard Microsoft Home Mouse Canon S450 printer Tripplite 500VA UPS Dlink 5 port 10/100 switch (2) Dlink 713P Wireless Router Bestdata 56K external modem |
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| Studio Machines |
I use these machines out
in the garage for creating and recording music.
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Intel
PIII800EB
Tekram P6BXAn Genica Midtower case 256 Meg Memory 40 Gig Hard Drive HiVal 24x10x40 CDRW 32M Geforce2MX CTX 14" SVGA Monitor |
Aureal Vortex |
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Intel
Celeron 1.8 gHz
Biostar MicroAtx case 256 Meg PC2100 Memory |
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| Notebooks |
The current list includes: Dell D600 -- (see above) Compaq Evo N600c -- (see above) Dell C610 -- Mobile P3 1000, 512M, 20GB, CDRW, 10/100 network, 16M mobility Radeon, 14" TFT XGA, bad battery Itronix XC6250 -- P133, 32M RAM, 1.5G HDD, Mono Screen, ruggedized case, 33.6 modem, bad battery DIED!! Zenith Znoteflex-P -- P75, 48M RAM, 2G HDD, 3.5" FDD, TFT |
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| Motherboards and Processors |
Micronics 54Hi (PS/2 mouse
and keyboard connectors) |
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Intel P166 MMX
Intel P166 Cyrix 6x86-166 Intel P150 Intel P133 (2) Intel P60 (2) AMD 486DX4-120 AMD 486DX4-100 (3) Cyrix 486DX2-66 |
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| Modems |
PCTel 56K V.90 Winmodem
2 ESS Teledrive 56K V.90 Winmodem Compaq 19.2 DSVD Supra Express 14.4 (not tested) Gateway Telepath 14.4 (US Robotics mfgd) Hayes Accura 14.4 |
| Video |
S3 VirgeDX 4meg PCI |
| Audio |
MediaVision Thunder&Lightning
(1meg Video & 8 bit sound)
Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo90 Gallant SC6000 ESS1488 |
| Drives |
Conner 1.06 Gig |
| Printers |
Epson LX86 -- 9pin
IBM ProPrinter XL |
| Other Stuff |
Alpha Research 400 ISA
Caching controller -- actually made by Tekram, could be potentially
useful, if I could find out how to make it work.
Iomega PC2B w/boot firmware -- If I could find a drive it actually works with. Generic VLbus IDE-I/O -- Promise chip assorted ISA I/O cards second channel IDE card -- for those IDE cdrom drives MFM Controller and 2 40Meg Drives (but no cables!) |
Ok, so most of this stuff obviously came from upgrades -- in fact the ATI Ultra video card, the Telepath modem, a 4X CDRom drives and the 486 Micronics motherboard all came from one Gateway PC, the Ensoniq VIVO and a P133 came from another. Still, you can always find someone who is looking for a cheap replacement or upgrade for a part in an old computer -- in fact, the Compaq 19.2 was replaced by an Acer 28.8. I've got plenty of parts to build more machines, but how many old pentium (or 486) machines can a guy use? If you're interested in anything let me know -- but remember, this is used stuff. It works, but maybe not the way it originally did -- AT motherboards that only work with ATX power supplies (a common problem I've found), integrated peripherals don't work properly, driver skittishness, and other similar things. But since you'll offer me cut rate prices, it shouldn't be a big deal. Right? RIGHT???