A Kindle of Komputers
M and I were talking about how we’ve literally lost track of the number of computers in our house. So I decided to compile a list, mainly for ourselves, but I might as well post it here, too. The list is up to 15…
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01) “Yoshi” (named after Yoshi DeHerrera), my main laptop, a Toshiba Satellite M35X-S149 w/ upgraded RAM bought Dec. 04 and is my main computer.
02) “Ike“, my teeny tiny laptop the length/width of a mousepad, Fujitsu P1120. (I LOVE IKE!)
03) “Mac“, M’s eMac 800 w/ upgraded RAM w/ superdrive that we bought at Comp Usa a couple years ago and fought with the salesman, the manager, the cashier AND the doorman about NOT buying a service warranty plan.
04) “Big Bertha“, a Gateway Laptop from the year 2000, it had the biggest screen at the time I could find, a 15.7″ square display, weighs like 7 pounds or something, a Gateway Solo 9300. It was my main computer for a long time until she was replaced by Yoshi, but she’s still laying around with feet broken off (I velcroed on metal drawer-pulls from home depot to use as feet) and has not shut down in 2 years (it won’t shut down even after a fresh windows install, you just have to cut the power), it shorts out any battery and floppy drive you put in it. Gotta love her.
05) “Frankenstein“, our 486sx pc upgraded to a dx266 and was used as a linux server in the house and acted as a dsl and dialup firewall for a few years. I thought he was made from dumpster parts, but that was another computer that M never got working.
06) “Max“, M’s Compaq Presario 1200xL 111 laptop, which is often referred to the “thousand dollar cable laptop” because M had to run to Office Depot in the middle of a work day to buy $11 cables and saw a sign for an open-box deal for this $1,000 laptop which was (at the time) too good a deal to pass up. And by the way, they were out of the cables.
07) “Fuster“, a Compaq Armada m300 laptop bought off ebay about 2 years ago. I wanted an el-cheapo used tiny laptop to bring to cafes to work on my writing. I got one off ebay but when it arrived the screen had cracked in shipping. So the owner eventually sent us this one, a slightly different model. I didn’t want to wait for the whole “will the seller give us our money back and will UPS give HIM his money back” thing, so I just up and ordered “IKE” (above). Then when this Armada came, M named it “Fuster” for the “Cluster F*ck” that trying to get a cheap laptop off ebay turned into.
08) “The MSN Companion running Linux“, an MSN Companion that runs Midori Linux off a CF card.
09) “Marklar“, M’s Alienware 1ghz Athlon box with a quintuple boot running Gentoo Linux, OS2 Warp 4, BeOS Max, QNX, and Windows ME.
10) “Zeus“, made from parts ordered custom, M showed me how to build a PC w/ this one, around 2001. It was supposed to be my main PC but it’s SO FLAKY! It’s a WinXP 1ghz box. Now I mainly use it as a file server that each night backs up to two external hard drives using Cobian backup software, it does live backups, it’s awesome.
11) “Fred“, M’s Pentium 200 MMX, was the computer that until M’s last year of college was a 486 33mhz.
12) Sun Sparc station. Someone at M’s work just gave it to him.
13) Multia, alpha 166. That’s M’s too.
14) Apple LCII. That was my computer, 16mhz, 68030, 6megs of ram, the computer M and I met on! I surfed the web on this, did email, and chatted in IRC for YEARS.
15) Power Mac, Quadra 630 upgraded to a PowerPC 601 @ 100mhz and… is flaky.
This list does not include computers we’ve since sold or thrown out.
Geezus we need to clean house!