Computer System History

Computer System

Computer History
Timothy J. Bruce

PC001

Style: Generic PC/XT
Island Micro, Inc (Seattle, WA)
NEC V20
20 Mb Hard drive
640Kb RAM
CGA Video Card
Color Composite Monitor (Upgraded to EGA about 1988)
1200 Baud Modem (Upgraded to 2400 Baud)
MS DOS 3.0
Purchased: August 1986
Disposed: 1991? (Sold)

PC002

Style: ??
TI 99/4A
Data Cassette
Purchased: May 1989
Disposed: 1994? (Goodwill)

PC003

Style: Generic 80386
Sysper Technologies (San Jose, CA)
80386 / 25 MHz
1.2 Mb Floppy
1.4 Mb Floppy
100 Mb Hard drive
Added 212 MB Hard drive Nov 92
Replaced 100 Mb Hard drive with 340 Mb Jan 94
2 Mb RAM
Super VGA (with 1 Mb Video RAM)
2400 Baud Modem
Logitech Serial Mouse
MS DOS 4.01
Purchased: February 1991
Disposed: 1998? (Surplus – Free Geek?)

PC004

Style: BSR (ARC) 386 SX
DAK Industries, Inc
80386 SX / 16 MHz
Purchased: November 1992
Disposed: 1996 (Sold?)

PC005

Style: Bondwell
DAK Industries, Inc
80386 SX (?) Notebook
1 MB Ram
10 Mb Hard drive
Purchased: Apr 1993?
Disposed: 1995 (Sold)

PC006

Style: Generic (Custom Built)
California
Pentium 166 MHz MMX
ATI Video Tuner
4 Mb RAM
540 Mb Harddrive
Upgraded to 6 Gb (Apr 1998)
Purchased April 1997
Disposed: N/A
IP Address: 192.168.10.6

PC007

Style: AMD K6-2 350 MHz
Affordable Technology (Beaverton, OR)
Purchased: February 1999
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Robert’s Computer
IP Address: DHCP

PC008

Style: Compaq 486 DX50 Laptop
Sane Technology (Seattle, WA)
100 Mb Parallel Zip Drive
300 Mb Harddrive
Purchased: February 1999
Disposed: Jun 2000 (System failure)

PC009

Style: Micron P5 / 133 MHz Laptop
Purchased: July 2001
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Christine’s Laptop
IP Address: DHCP

PC010

Style: Pentium 4 – 1.5 GHz
Custom Built Intel 1.5 GHz
Frye’s Electronics (Seattle, WA)
100 Mb Parallel Zip Drive
300 Mb Harddrive
Purchased: Oct 2002
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Tim’s Main Desktop
IP Address: 192.168.10.9

PC011

Style:
Beaverton, OR
AMD
Purchased: June 2002
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Christine’s Main Desktop

PC012

Style: Compaq Deskpro
Budget Computers (Beaverton, OR)
Pentium II –
32 Mb RAM
Purchased: September 2002
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Freesco Router
DNS Services

PC013

Style: Dell Dimension (Dell Tag: EI10U)
Fiserv EFT (Surplus)
Pentium III – 550 MHz
0 Mb RAM (Added 256 Mb)
6 Gb Hard drive
Purchased: December 2003
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Windows 2003 Server
DHCP
File Server
DNS
Active Directory

PC014

Style: Dell Dimension (Dell Tag: E6LDA)
Fiserv EFT (Surplus)
Pentium III – 550 MHz
64 Mb RAM (Replaced with 512 Mb)
0 Gb Hard drive (Added 80 Gb)
Purchased: December 2003
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Linux Server
Apache
File Server
MySQL Database Server

Updates: 14 Jun 2007

PC015
Style: Hewlett Packard
AMD Athlon 64, 3500+
512 Mb RAM
200 Gb Hard drive
19" HP Flat screen monitor
Purchased: November 2006
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Linux Desktop
(Originally this had Windows Media Center installed. The hard drive failed after 3 months, so HP, after many support calls, shipped a new one. However, no backup of the system was taken after it was setup. The new hard drive had no Operating System, and HP had no DVDs in stock, so I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (v7.04) on the system, and it has worked very well as a network workstation. Lightweight word processing, picture viewing, email, and web surfing.)

PC016
Style: Hewlett Packard
HP Pavillion DV6000 series (Model DV6253CL)
AMD Athlon 64
2 Gb RAM
120 Gb Hard drive
Purchased: February 2007
Disposed: N/A
Purpose: Linux Laptop (Development / Software Testing)
(Originally this had Windows Vista installed. I tried various Linux distributions and settled on Kubuntu (Feisty Fawn - v7.04) as it seemed to recognize the most components (I did have trouble with the Wireless card and finally got that working on Jun 12.) and had minimal problems booting. I did try OpenSuSE v10.2, v10.3 Alpha 3, and some Debian Sarge and Debian Etch. All of them had problems with one or more components. I am running this system with the Expansion base (XB3000) and bought VMware workstaion v6.00 for testing / development. More info later.)