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Hold the mouse over a component in the above picture to get a
brief description. On a whim I have named all the computers after Greek gods (names in parenthesis). Total
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Presario
2800T
It even came with a free extra battery! Only problem was I had to take two days after unoxing it to figure out that it needed a BIOS update to work. Other than that, the screen is very nice, DVDs look pretty crisp and the integrated video card lets me play stuff like Max Payne at 1024x768x32 with no problems whatsoever. It's truly able to be a convenient LAN gaming computer. |
Dell
Axim X5
This replaced my Handspring Visor Platinum recently. Unlike the Visor, this can actually use my network, so it rates a place on this page. The AximX5 has 64MB of built in memory with automatic allocation to storage and program memory. It runs PocketPC 2002. There are built in Compact Flash and Secure Digital ports. The screens are a little smaller than the iPaqs, but these are way, way cheaper. There is also a 400MHz Intel X-Scale Processor. I have added a linksys 802.11b CF card (wireless network) and a 256MB SD card into the mix. Now I've a Compaq and a Dell! Who would have imagined that? |
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If you want to know about this one, check out its page HERE. If you didn't see the link to this before, you weren't paying attention. |
Nightstand
Computer My second "case mod." It has its own page, just like the Pegboard. Go into the light! |
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My third case mod (and the first that has an actual case). It countains LEDs, some electro-luminescent cable, and a liquid neon light. And surprise, surprise it also has its own page. |
(Hephaestus)
Hephaestus is made up of spare parts leftover from the PbC part 7 saga. It's used primarily for financial work and web surfing. It contains a PIII 550 and 384MB of RAM. I think this is the fifth motherboard that case has contained. |
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Full-Duplex,
Auto-Sensing, etc, etc... |
SMC Barricade Router 4-Port 10/100 Switch  My new router (after two Linksys ones that died right after their warranties expired) is an SMC. For about the same price as the linksys, this one has the 4-port switch built in as well as a print server (parallel port on the back). |
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Computers
Not on the Network |
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IBM PS1 The PS1 is the first computer my family ever owned.
It was even our primary computer all the way until 1996-7 (one
of the two). Built in 1991 according to the label on the back
(though there may be reaason to think it was earlier), this 286
really dates the progression of PCs in the last decade.
This is a really weird interior. I work on computers a lot, but I can ony identify a few things here. The HDD is a whopping 30MB! And yet I still have like 5 games on there. Credits from "The Quest for Camelot" are pictured on the monitor (kinda like "King's Quest"). Anyway, the ribbon cable that goes to the HDD is as wide as a SCSI cable today, but the computer didn't cost enough to have a SCSI anything when we bought it, so go figure. All of the expansion cards are plugged into the motherboard through ribbon cables and not the usual PCI or ISA slots we have grown used to.
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Dell 325 This is the first computer that I actually owned. My father brought it home from work one day (completely surprising me) and handed it over. I sat there and stared at the pretty O/S2 Warp screens for many a day before we put a useful OS on there. (BTW: O/S2 has two uses, Mahjong and customizing icons...) After getting Win3.1 and DOS 6 on there, I set to work buying cheap games and trying to make them work. The best game on there is "Buzz Aldrin's Space Race," a really cool game if I might add. After we bought the Packard Bell I pretty much stopped using it. Those blocks on the left are not actually bundles of plastic explosives. They are, in fact, batteries. They weigh around a pound each and I only ever got them up to a max of 40min each. The power brick on the right is not heavy but takes up a heck of a lot of space in a case. The track ball is the only one in existence that I actually like, and it is just soo easy to use on a plane. The laptop is an Intel 386 running at one of three MHz: 6, 12, 25 (bios selectable). The computer is the host of a dead CMOS battery, so I get to reset everything averytime i turn it on. The monitor has a small problem as well, half of it goes dark after it gets hot (one of the back lights cut out). |
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AthlonXP
2600+ 
