| Year |
Model |
Processor |
Memory |
Operating System(s) |
Languages |
Storage |
Comm / Networking |
Disposition |
| 1978 |
SouthWest Terminal Products 6800 |
Motorola 6800 |
24KB |
none |
8K Basic Interpreter on Tape |
300 baud "tarbell" Cassette tape |
2 RS232 Serial Ports (110 - 9600 baud) |
Thrown in dumpster 1992 |
| 1987 |
Elek Tek Capital-E |
10 MHz 80286 with 80287 math coprocessor |
1MB |
Coherent, MS-DOS 3.0 |
Pascal, COBOL, dBaseIII/FoxPro |
40MB Segate ST-251-1 hard disk, 1.2MB 5-1/4" floppy, 720K 3-1/2" floppy |
External 2400 baud Zoom modem, parallel port, RS-232 Serial |
Given to parents 1992 |
| 1990 |
Monochrome NeXTStation |
25 MHz Motorola 68020 |
8MB |
NeXTStep 2, then 3.0 |
Objective C |
200MB Internal disk, 80MB removable disk, 3-1/2" 1.44MB floppy |
External 9600 baud modem, ISDN (unused), TP Ethernet |
On Shelf in Utility Room |
| 1992 |
Gateway 80486 |
33MHz Intel 80486 (later CyrixDX4) |
16MB (later 32MB - 1996) |
Windows 3.11, NT 3.51 |
AutoLISP, FoxPro |
400MB disk, 1.44 MB Floppy, 4x CD-ROM |
External Hayes 28.8 baud modem, TP Ethernet |
Given to nice lady in apartment building for AOL use 1999 |
| 1996 |
Sun SparcStation 5 |
70Mhz microSparc |
32MB |
Solaris 2.51, (later domain host OpenBSD 2.9,3.1 - 2000, 2002) |
AutoLISP, GNU C/C++, Perl, Java, Ruby |
2GB disk (later 9GB - 2000), External SCSI Panasonic 8x CD-ROM (later removed) |
TP Ethernet, dual RS-232C |
Recycled |
| 1999 |
HP Pavillion 6545C |
500 MHz Intel Celeron with 128K cache |
256MB
| Windows 98se, RedHat Linux 6,7,8,9 |
Ruby |
13GB EIDE disk (later second 30GB disk), EIDE CD-Writer Plus, 3-/12" 1.44MB floppy |
TP Ethernet, Rockwell 56K internal modem, RS-232C |
Recycled |
| 2000 |
Dell Optiplex GXa |
300MHz Intel Pentium II |
64MB (later 192MB - 2002) |
Windows 98se |
Java 1.3.1, GNU C 3.1, Borland C 6.0 |
3GB internal EIDE disk, CD-ROM |
TP Ethernet, Internal 56K modem, Parallel, RS-232C |
Recycled |
| 2002 |
Sun UltraSparc 170e Creator |
167 MHz UltraSparc |
128MB |
Solaris 2.6, 7 & 8 |
GNU C/C++ 3.1, Java 1.1.8, Oracle 8i |
2GB internal wide scsi disk, 4GB internal wide scsi disk, 24x CD-ROM, 1.44MB 3-1/2" floppy (unused) |
TP Ethernet, dual RS-232C |
Recycled |
| 2002 |
Silicon Graphics Indigo Squared (Solid Impact) |
195 MHz MIPS R10000 |
128MB |
IRIX 6.5.3 |
GNU C/C++ 3.1 |
4GB internal SCSI |
TP Ethernet, dual RS-434 |
Recycled |
| 2004 |
IBM Thinkpad T22 Laptop |
900 MHz Pentium-III |
384MB |
SuSE 9, SuSE 10, Ubuntu 7.04 GNU/Linux |
Ruby, GCC C and C++ |
20GB EIDE, DVD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, RS-232C, USB |
Recycled |
| 2005 |
Dell Precision 530MT |
1.5 GHz Xeon |
1GB (1024MB) |
SuSE 9, SuSE 10, Ubuntu 6.10,7.04,7.10,8.04,8.10 GNU/Linux, Windows XP |
Ruby, GCC C |
18GB + 36GB = 54GB SCSI, CD-RW, CD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet, RS-232C,USB |
Given to Kevin Clover |
| 2005 |
HP 9000: Model B2000 |
400 MHz PA-RISC |
512MB |
HP/UX 11v1 |
C/C++, Perl 5.6 |
9GB SCSI, CD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, RS-232C |
Recycled |
| 2007 |
Dell GX 60 |
1.7 GHz Celeron |
256MB |
Debian 4.0 GNU/Linux, Debian 5.0,OpenBSD 4.x |
Ruby, PHP, GCC C and C++ |
160GB EIDE, CD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, USB |
Development |
| 2007 |
Apple iMac G3 |
400 MHz PowerPC |
384MB |
Mac OSX 10.4 |
none |
10GB EIDE, CD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, USB, 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet |
Daughter's Computer but I'm Sysadmin |
| 2009 |
Apple eMac G4 |
1.2GHz PowerPC |
512MB |
Mac OSX 10.4 |
none |
40GB EIDE, DVD-ROM |
10/100baseT Ethernet, USB, 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet |
Kid's Computer but I'm Sysadmin |
| 2008 |
Toshiba Satellite |
1.73 GHz Dual Core Pentium |
1 GB |
Dual Boot: Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04,8.10,9.04 |
Ruby, PHP, Perl |
120GB PATA, DVD-RW |
100baseT Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet, USB |
Work and Development |
| 2009 |
Custom System with Asrock Motherboard |
2.33GHz Quad Core Pentium Q8200 |
4 GB |
Ubuntu 8.10,9.04 |
Ruby, PHP, Perl |
750GB SATA, USB 2.0 DVD-RW |
100baseT Ethernet |
Work and Development |
| 2009 |
Sun Ultra 2 |
Dual 300MHz UltraSparc II |
512MB |
Solaris 9 |
Ruby, C,C++ |
2x9GB wide SCSI,SCSI CD-ROM, 1.44MB Floppy |
100baseT Ethernet |
Recycled |
| 2010 |
HP T5135 Thin Client |
VIA Eden 400MHz |
128MB |
OpenBSD |
Home IPv6 Router, Domain Hosting |
60GB USB Minidisk |
100baseT Ethernet |
In Service |