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Machines I Have Known and Loved

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home machines

skynet (2011--)

  • Status: Not yet built
  • CoolerMaster HAF942 ATX full tower, Corvair 850AX GOLD
  • TBD Sandy Bridge Core i7, 24GB DDR3
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.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--)

  • Status: Active
  • 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
  • 9x2TB 7200RPM WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Western Digital Caviar Green
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

mothership (2003--2006)

  • Status: Retired
  • AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 1GB, Matrox G450
  • Debian Unstable (2.6.x kernels)

badassmotherfucker (2002)

  • Status: MIA. possibly sold for drugs
  • Tadpole SPARCLE 500 laptop
  • UltraSPARC IIe @ 500MHz, 1GB PC-133 ECC, 40GB PATA

eris (2001--2003)

  • Status: KIA (caught fire)
  • AMD Athlon K7 1GHz, 1GB, Matrox G450
  • Debian Unstable (2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels)

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 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

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)

mmas (2010)

sorrow (2008--2009)

  • Status: Returned
  • Dell Latitude laptop

areopagod (2007--2008)

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

diaconicon (2005--2007)

  • Status: Lost
  • Dell Latitude laptop

aho (2006--2009)

providence (2006--2009)

knuth (2005--2009)

panzer (2001--2005)

  • 4U Supermicro
  • 2xPentium IV Xeon

marcello (2000)

  • Sun Ultra 10
  • 6GB SCSI

school machines (highly incomplete)

sunbuzz

hogwarts

killerbee

oscar

acme