My Hardware Over The Years
Published by Marc D. on
Computer Hardware (1998)
For those interested in this sort of thing here's info on the
two computers I own at the moment.
The Tandy was used from late 1987 to '91, I think, where it was
replaced by an Austin 386SX-20 and later a put-together 486DX-33.
Those last two were stolen and sold, respectively, so the Tandy was
back in use from 1992 to 1997.
The thing just won't quit working. (^ ^)
During those years I fell behind and never really caught up.
Had Linux 0.95C+ up and running and was getting acquainted with
the then unreleased Window NT (I received a couple beta packages
with NT and Win32s SDK but lost the 486 just before receiving
the finished version). Tried some X Window programming via
DESQview/X and GCC, too. All forgotten though since there wasn't
too much I could do on an XT-class machine. But anyhind...
386 System
- AMD 80386DX-40
- 32MB RAM
- 128K Cache
- 635MB IDE Hard Drive, Quantum TRB635B
- 1.3GB IDE Hard Drive, Western Digital Caviar WDAC21200
- 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy
- 1.2MB 5.25" Floppy
- CD-ROM Drive, 32X, Atlas Peripherals/Wearnes
- Tape Drive, 2GB, Iomega Ditto, External (Parallel)
- Diamond SpeedStar 64 Video, 2MB RAM, Cirrus Logic GD-5434 chipset
- Sound Conductor SND20 Sound Card, ESS1868 (SoundBlaster Pro)
- MIDI Card, MPU-401, Music Quest (hooked up to Korg X5DR sound module)
- Controller, SIIG EIDE Master ISA+I/O
- Monitor, Hewlett Packard D3857A, 15"
- Modem, Practical Peripherals MC288MT II V.FC, 28.8 Kbps, External
- Mouse Systems PC Trackball II
- Gravis PC GamePad
- Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 BETA with 4DOS 6.01 command processor
- Windows For Workgroups 3.11
- Linux (Slackware-based), kernel 2.0.36
Tandy 1000 HX
- NEC V-20, 7.16MHz (apparently)
- Memory Card, Xtra-K 1000 PlusCard providing 736K Low/DOS RAM, 5MB EMS (expandable to 8MB total EMS)
- 524MB SCSI Hard Drive, Toshiba MK2428FB, 2.5"
- SCSI Controller, Storage-Master 1000 PlusCard w/one 9-pin serial port (Future Domain TMC-950 BIOS)
- Two 720K 3.5" Floppy Drives, Internal
- 360K 5.25" Floppy, External
- 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy, External, Microsolutions Backpack
- Video, Tandy Graphics, CGA compatible with enhancements [PCjr] (Max color and max resolution of 320x200x16 and 640x200x4, respectively)
- I/O Card, SIIG I/O Professional (two 16550 serial, one bi-directional parallel)
- Monitors, RGB/TTL, Tandy/Samsung/Panasonic, whichever one is working
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.00 with 4DOS 5.52 command processor
- DeskMate 3.05
Computer Hardware (2014)
This is the hardware I was running at the time of my “retirement”. These machines are not lost, removed, or stored away but remain In Situ. They are in exactly the same place when last used, just collecting dust. Silly, if not idiotic, I know. Also includes printers, routers, external hard drives, network attached storage, etc.
- IBM ThinkPad T21, Pentium III - Slackware 12 & Windows XP
- Panasonic Toughbook CF-27, Pentium II - Arch Linux
- Dell OptiPlex GX260 Slim, Pentium 4 - Vector Linux & Windows XP
- Dell OptiPlex GX260 SFF, Pentium 4 - Xubuntu & Windows 2000
- Silicon Graphics SGI O2, MIPS R10000 - IRIX
- Custom Made Tower, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T - OpenIndiana (formerly OpenSolaris), Debian Wheezy, Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows 7 Pro
The above list was taken from an old tagline so lacks any other specs.
There’s an undocumented period from about 2000 to 2006. A custom built machine running Slackware Linux but later Windows 98. An old IBM low profile desktop who’s model I forgot. Pentium I running Slackware 3.9.
Computer Hardware (2025)
The current set of in-use machines.
OSMC Vero V, AMLogic S905X4-OSMC, ARM Cortex-A55 (4) @ 2.004GHz, 4GB RAM, Single Board Computer:
Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) aarch64
(media box)
Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 2847DKU, Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 (2) @ 2.201GHz, 8GB RAM, Laptop:
MX Linux 21.2.1_(respin) FVWM_Ext
OpenBSD
Void Linux
Beelink SER4, AMD Ryzen 7 4800U (16) @ 1.800GHz, 32GB RAM, Mini PC:
Slint 15.0 (Slackware-based)
ASUS K52F, Intel i5 M 480 (4) @ 2.667GHz, 8GB RAM, Laptop:
Windows 7 Pro
(Emergency machine, from 2014)
Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 3, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U (16) @ 1.800GHz, 40GB RAM, Laptop:
Slackware 15.0
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 3, Intel Core i7 8650U (8) @ 1.800GHz, 16GB RAM, 2-In-1 Laptop/Tablet:
Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin
Mobile Age
After the retirement I jumped headlong into mobile. Lots of Android phones and tablets as well as Linux Mobile.
Certified flash-a-holic and multibooter. That
will take a whole new page or pages to document. (^_^)