Machines I Have Known and Loved

skynet.qemfd.net, exterior

There were definitely also a Compaq Alpha SMP SCSI full tower and a Transmeta laptop in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can't recall their names.

home machines

grimes (2018--)

uptowngirl, before she became uptowngrimes and finally just grimes, 2019-03-09

• Lenovo T580 laptop
• Intel Core i7 8550U Skylake CPU
• Samsung EVO 850 512GB SATA SSD (drive bay)
• Big-ass additional 4X50M08812 72Wh battery
• MyDigital SBXe 480GB M.2 2242 NVMe SSD (internal m.2 slot)
• first machine on which i ran arch linux
• first owned machine to run something but debian unstable in at least 15 years

schwarzgerät (2016--)

• CaseLabs T10 case ($490)
• EVGA SuperNOVA 850 T2 220-T2-0850-X1 80+ Titanium PSU ($200)
• Asus X99 Deluxe II ATX motherboard ($420)
• Intel Core i7 6950X Broadwell-E CPU ($1650)
• 12x Seagate EXOS 12TB ST12000NM0007-2A drives ($340 per)
• 10x various 4TB drives (sold as a group for $250)
• full bill of materials...

skynet (2011--2017)

skynet 2012-03-21

The mighty Dell U3011

SUPER SECRET BAYS

• Status: Sold ($250)
• CoolerMaster HAF932 ATX full tower ($139)
• ABS Majesty 900W GOLD power supply ($149)
• Intel Core i7-2600k Quad-core 3.4GHz Sandy Bridge ($315)
• Noctua NH-D14 SSO processor cooler ($75)
• 16GB via 4xG.SKILL Ripjaws X 7-8-7-24 DDR3-1600 ($115)
• 11x2TB 7200RPM WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Western Digital Caviar Green / 5700RPM ST2000DL003-9VT1 Seagate 3.5" in RAID6
• 2x320GB 7200ROM ST9320423AS Seagate 2.5" in RAID1
• 2x120GB SSDSA2CW12 Intel 320 SSD 2.5"
• LSI SAS2008 2xSAS SFF-8470 -> 4x SATA 6.0Gbps ($240)
• AsRock Extreme4 Z68 motherboard ($270)
• Asus Xonar Essence ST audio card ($200) (replaced with USB DAC, sold for $50 in 2017)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card ($100, purchased refurbished via NVIDIA employee program)
• Dell U3011 IPS LCD ($1089) (damaged and sold in 2018 for $100)
• Debian Unstable (2.6.x, 3.x kernels)

hyperbox (2010)

• Status: KIA (spilled a beer in it)
• ASUS G60JX laptop
• Quad-core Core i7 Nehalem with HyperThreading, 8G PC-1333 on 4xSODIMM, NVIDIA 360M
• 500GB 7200RPM ST9500420AS Seagate Momentus 7200.4
• 32GB SSD
• Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

recombinator (2006--2012)

• Status: Retired
• ATX full tower, Intel DG965WH, 480W
• Dual-core Core 2 Duo, 4G PC2-6400 on 4xUDIMM, Intel G965
• NVIDIA GT210, NVIDIA 8400 GTS
• 300GB 10000RPM WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1 VelociRaptor 3.5"
• 64GB TS32GSSD18M-M SSD 2.5"
• Debian Unstable (2.6.x, 3.x kernels)

mothership (2003--2006)

• Status: Retired
• AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 2GB, Matrox G450
• 80GB 7200RPM + 3x500GB 5400RPM PATA
• Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)
• i fucking adored that athlon t-bird. the matrox was also elite AF.

badassmotherfucker (2002)

• Status: MIA. possibly stolen
• Tadpole SPARCLE 500 laptop
• UltraSPARC IIe @ 500MHz, 1GB PC-133 ECC, 40GB PATA
• Sun Solaris 8

nectar (2001--2003)

• Status: KIA (caught fire)
• AMD Athlon K7 1GHz, 1GB, Matrox G450
• 30GB 7200RPM + 3x300GB 7200RPM PATA
• Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)
• this was my first "good" computer, and the first i speced and put together myself.

junta (2000)

• Status: Retired
• Pentium 90, 16MB, S3 Virge
• 4-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet
• Slackware Linux 7.0 (2.4.x kernels), OpenBSD, Solaris x86

rift (1999--2001)

• Status: Retired
• Pentium 133, 16MB
• 4GB + 80GB PATA
• 2-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet
• Slackware Linux 7.0 (2.4.x kernels), Debian Unstable (2.4.x kernels), OpenBSD

luckystrike/hoist (1998--2001)

• Status: Retired
• HP Pavilion
• Pentium II Celeron @ 300MHz, 32MB, Matrox G200
• 6GB + 30GB PATA
• Windows 98, RedHat Linux 5.2 (2.0.x kernels), Mandrake Linux (2.2.x kernels), Slackware Linux 7.0 (2.4.x kernels), Debian Testing (2.4.x kernels)

shadowgate (1995--1998)

• Status: Retired
• 386SX, 4MB, VGA, Hayes Optima 14.4kbps external modem
• 2x20MB + 1GB PATA
• Renegade BBS
• MSDOS 6.22, FreeBSD 3.0, Slackware Linux 3.0 (1.x kernels)

pc (1992--1995)

• Status: KIA (took it apart)
• 8086, 1MB, CGA, Hayes-compatible 2400bps internal modem
• 10MB MFM
• Telix BBS
• MSDOS 4.0, MSDOS 5.0

ATARI 400 (1985--1996)

• Status: KIA (took it apart)
• MOS 6502 @ 1.8MHz + ANTIC + GTIA + POKEY, 8KB, ATARI 410 Data Cassette Drive
• Microperipherals Microconnection 300bps acoustic coupler
• ATARI OS Rev. B

work machines (highly incomplete)

Luma

dankcanyon (2016--2018)

• Intel Skull Canyon NUC

Google

recombinator (2014--2016)

• HP Z420 workstation
• Goobuntu Precise/Trusty

eschatron (2014--2016)

• Thinkpad T430s laptop
• Dell M3100 laptop

NVIDIA

kingfriday (2011)

• CoolerMaster HAF942 ATX full tower, Corvair 850TX BRONZE
• Asus P6TD
• Quad-core Nehalem Core i7
• NVIDIA 560ti, NVIDIA 480 GTX, NVIDIA 285 GTX

eschatomatic (2011)

• Dell Latitude E6510 laptop
• Dual-core Core i7 Nehalem with HyperThreading, 8G PC-1333 on 4xSODIMM, NVIDIA NVS 3100M
• 500GB 7200RPM ST9500420AS Seagate Momentus 7200.4
• 80GB SSD INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC Intel X25-M SSD
• Windows Enterprise 7, Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)

AccelerEyes

mmas (2010)

• NVIDIA S1070 1U Tesla compute node (4x NVIDIA C1060)

McAfee

areopagod (2008--2009)

• Status: Returned
• Dell Latitude laptop

adytum (2007--2008)

• Status: Stolen
• Dell Latitude XFR "All-Terrain Grade" ruggedized laptop

diaconicon (2005--2007)

• Status: Lost
• Dell Latitude laptop

Reflex

panzer (2001--2005)

• 4U Supermicro
• 2xPentium IV Xeon

TeleSync

marcello (2000)

• Sun Ultra 10
• 6GB SCSI

colo'd machines

dankvps

• Status: you're reading it
• VPS with Linode, who are awesome
  • Previously with 1and1, who were garbage
• E5-2680 v3, 8GB RAM, 180GB disk

slump (2004--2005)

• Status: stolen
• 1U Supermicro, AMD Athlon K7, 2GB
• 2x300GB PATA