Previous computers

This page contains photographs and descriptions of computers that I once owned but no longer have.

• Aquarius
• Archimedes
• Beige Box
• Brutus
• Cicero
• Cincinnatus
• Hercules
• King Kong
• Lazarus
• Octavius
• Scantron
• Ulysses
• Via Appia
• Zeus

Aquarius

• Fujitsu LifeBook 520D
• Pentium 120 MHz
• 11.3" 800x600 dual scan LCD
• Chips and Technologies 65550 video card
• 16 MB RAM
• 810 MB hard drive
• 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
• 6x CD-ROM drive
• Alvarion DS.11b 802.11b PCMCIA card
• Windows for Workgroups 3.11
• Windows 95 4.00.950a

Archimedes

• Toshiba Portege 610CT
• 9.5" 640x480 LCD TFT display
• Intel SL-Enhanced Pentium 90 MHz CPU
• 16 MB EDO RAM
• 686 MB Hard Drive
• Chips and Technology F65546 1MB Video Card
• 10/100Mbps Network Interface Card
• External 24X CD-ROM Drive
• Windows 95

Beige Box

• Pentium 200 with MMX
• 64 MB 60ns FPM RAM
• 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball hard drive
• Generic 40x CD-ROM drive
• 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
• S3 video card with 1 MB VRAM
• Windows 98

Brutus

• Intel Celeron 266 MHz (0KB L2 cache)
• 192 MB RAM
• 8.4 GB IBM IDE hard drive
• 9.1 GB Compaq Wide Ultra SCSI-3 hard drive
• Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI controller
• 50x CD-ROM drive
• ATI Rage on-board video
• Netgear FA301TX 10/100 network card
• Slackware Linux 10.1

Cicero

• HP 200LX palmtop
• 8 MHz 80186 processor
• 1 MB RAM
• 640 x 200 CGA grayscale LCD
• MS-DOS 5.0
• Windows 3.00a
• 256 MB PCMCIA flash card

Cincinnatus

• IBM PC 365 (Model 6589-11U)
• Dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors (SL22Z, 512KB cache)
• 512 MB EDO ECC RAM
• 2.1 GB NEC DSE2100A hard drive
• Philips PCRW2412 24x12x40 CD-RW drive
• 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
• S3 Trio64V+ video card with 2 MB RAM
• Compaq NC3120 hot swappable 10/100 Mbps Ethernet adapter
• Windows 2000 Professional

Hercules

• Sun Race Technology Corporation HyperBook 2200SX
• AMD 386SX-25 CPU
• 4 MB RAM
• 9" grayscale 640x480 LCD
• 3.5" 1.44 MB internal floppy drive
• 2.1 GB hard drive (upgraded)

King Kong

• AMD K6-2 500 MHz CPU
• 128 MB SDRAM
• Maxi Gamer Phoenix 16 MB Voodoo Banshee video card
• 7 GB Maxtor hard drive
• Sound Blaster 128
• Adaptec ISA SCSI card

Lazarus

• Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT
• Intel SL-enhanced Pentium 90 MHz CPU
• 40 MB RAM
• 11.3" 800x600 TFT LCD
• 810 MB hard drive

Octavius

• Sony Clie T665C
• Palm OS v4.1
• DragonBall Super VZ CPU (66 MHz)
• 16 MB RAM
• 320 x 320 64K color display

Scantron

• IBM ThinkPad 380Z
• Intel Mobile Pentium II 233 MHz
• 32 MB RAM
• 13.3" 1024x768 TFT LCD
• 4 GB hard drive
• 24x CD-ROM drive
• Internal 3.5" floppy drive
• 2.5 MB video RAM

Ulysses

• Intel Pentium 4 1.70 GHz
• 17" LCD
• 768 MB PC2100 RAM
• GeForce 4 MX 440 PersonalCinema
• 60 GB hard drive
• SoundBlaster PCI 128
• M-Audio Sonica 7.1 USB
• 3Com 10/100 network card
• 3.5" floppy drive
• 48x CD-ROM drive
• CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
• Windows XP Home SP2

Via Appia

• Pentium 133 MHz
• 128 MB RAM
• 1 GB CompactFlash "hard drive" via CF->IDE adapter
• Philips PCRW1208 12x8x32 CD-RW Drive
• 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
• Trident PCI video card with 1 MB RAM
• Linksys LNE100TX 100Base-TX Ethernet adapter
• OpenBSD 4.0

Zeus

• Mitsubishi 286L portable computer
• 8 MHz 286 CPU
• 640 K RAM
• 20 MB hard drive
• 11" LCD