From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-15T22:11:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How many computers in the house?

Terry Poulin wrote:
> Todd Burch wrote:

Oh ... I didn't know we were supposed to actually list them:

8-bit: Altair 680B, Kim-1, TI University Module (a chip level board, not
the gizmo Bill Cosby hawked), Sharp PC-1500, Tandy 200 (Clamshell
notebook -- big brother to the 100 and 102)

16-bit: HP100LX, HP200LX

32-bit: Toshiba Libretto 70

Now the operational ones:

Athlon Thunderbird with 1 GB of RAM (DreamGate): router, email,
workstation, runs Gentoo Linux, about 1.3 GFlops

Athlon64 X2 with 4 GB (DreamScape): workstation/server hybrid, runs
Gentoo Linux and large-scale scientific codes -- about 10 GFlops in
32-bit mode

Athlon XP Compaq Presario with 512 MB (DreamTime): laptop dual-booted
Windows XP and Gentoo Linux, but 99 percent of the time either powered
off or up with Gentoo. I use Windows only to bail me out of wireless
gotchas at RubyConf. :) It's actually faster than the TBird but it has a
typical slow laptop drive and only 512 MB, so I don't run much on it
except when I'm on the road.

There was also a Toshiba 2595 laptop with an 800 MHz Pentium II-flavored
Celeron and 192 MB of RAM. The CD lost the ability to boot, so I had to
run Debian on it because you can boot Debian from floppies. :) I gave it
away.