A list of computers I worked on
Before computers were given names, I worked on:
A sparc station, which was assigned to me when
I started working on the TransCoop
project on June 15, 1994. I used it till August 15, 1994,
when it was replaced by the rosarium.
It was known as the graveyard.cs.utwente.nl on the Internet.
December 1994 we bought our first PC from the CIV-shop at the University
of Twente. A Mini Tower Highscreen 486 DX2-66 with:
Through the years, I made a large number of modifications to this
machine. Below a short history:
- January 5 & 7, 1995: Installed Slackware 1.2 with Linux 1.1.59 kernel.
Because of this, it needed a name, and I gave it the name of
my daughter.
- January 10, 1995: Made the first attempts to connect to the Internet with
through a modem with dip and ppp.
- January 12, 1995: Build my own zImagine (at 21:10:34 GMT)
and made the machine dual bootable with lilo, the
Linux Loader.
- January 13 & 14, 1995: Made X-windows work.
- February 2, 1995: Tried a new modem, and got it working.
- February 26, 1995: Wrote Linux on my DX2 66.
- February 28, 1995: Tried to connect a VT100 terminal to it.
- April 13, 1995: Installed an additional I/O-card.
- Early 1995: Bought a second hand 5.25 inch floppy drive, so that I
could read all my old floppies.
- January 5, 1996: Wrote COM ports, or `Fooling
the Remote program of CoSession'.
- January 8, 1996: Installed a CD-ROM drive,
which was lended to us by company Li-Xia was working with.
- January 19, 1996: Added 8 Mbytes on bank 3.
Installed a second hard disk,
an ST51270A 1.223 Gbytes hard disk with 128 Kbyte cache.
We bought this hard disk on January 18, 1996 from
Vobis Enschede. The 8 Mbytes I bought from the CIV-shop at
the University of Twente.
- November 19, 1996: Had to return the CD-ROM drive.
- Fall 2000: Bought a second hand CD-ROM drive, a Vuego, model 810A 014
manufactured in October 1996, and installed it.
Not much later, I installed Windows 95 on it.
- On Friday, January 26, 2001, I installed Windows 98 SE
and the day after, I made it into a multiple bootable
PC.
- On Saturday, March 3, 2001, removed the
Seagate ST51270A hard disk and put it into ester.
Also gave the Highscreen MS 1460P monitor to the new computer.
- May 2001. Installed it upstairs on the third floor together
with the Philips Brilliance 15A
monitor.
- On Saurday, October 27, 2001, removed
the CD-ROM drive, and installed it into
ester.
- On Monday, January 1, 2001, removed
the Monitor and gave it to andy.
- On Monday, April 29, 2002, I modified it such that it will boot
up to Linux without needing a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse.
You can use it by connecting a terminal to the serial port.
- On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, I removed
the 5.25 inch floppy drive, and did consider removing the video card
and the additional IO-card as well.
- On Saturday, May 3, 2003, I tried to
strip it, and while doing this caused the WDC AC2420F hard disk
to die. Luckily on Monday, May 26
I discovered that it was only because of a disconnected LED that
it did not start anymore.
- On Sunday, November 23, 2003, I
performed some Case Demoding
after I stripped it the day before.
A Sparc Station IPC with black/white monitor, which I got
as an replacement of the graveyard
on August 15, 1994, when I worked for two months for the
TransCoop project.
I used till around June 24, 1997,
when it was replaced by the whitehouse.
It was known as the rosarium.cs.utwente.nl on the Internet.
A Toshiba T1000 laptop, which I bought in February 1996 second-hand
from a student at the University of Twente after having placed
an announcement in a local news group.
One of the first things that I did was writing a
program for exchanging files with Linux on
annabel.
I used it extensively when I just needed to edit some text files.
I brought it with me on our trip to China in the
summer of 1996, where I used for
writing my online diary,
writing the initial version
of the Acorn Atom emulator, and reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
We left it with our family in
Urumqi, China.
The second PC we bought on September 24, 1996 from Dynabyte Enschede.
An Ollivetti Envison P75 with:
- Pentium 75 Mhrz
- 8 Mbytes of ram.
- A 635 Mbyte Fast IDE hard disk
- A CD-ROM drive
Quite a strange PC. Apparently, intended to be placed in the
living room, because it was sold without monitor and it did have
a scart plug on the back. Actually, on the back it did have many
connectors, including midi in and out connectors. Also on the front
it had a clock display, buttons for the CD-ROM drive, and there
was a lid before the floppy drive. It came with a wireless keyboard
with a build-in track ball.
Most of the specially functionality is integrated on a custom
made mother board.
The machine apparently was introduced a few years to early,
I am afraid. When we bought it, it was on sale.
At first we connected it to our TV through the video recorder
(because our TV did not have a scart connector), but that was not
a great success. Within a few weeks, on October 5, 1996, we bought
an additional monitor from ESCOM Office in Enschede.
A 15 inch 7156E monitor with serial number 9000799819.
Later, I concluded that it was not a good investment to buy
this machine. One of the main reasons for this, is that the
build in video card was rather limited in its abilities and had
some defects which made it impossible to play almost all of the
CD-ROM games that I bought for Annabel.
When the computer needed a name, I named it after my son
Andy.
In the fall of 2000, I installed an additional 8 Mbytes of ram,
which improved the overal performance a lot.
On Saturday, March 10, 2001, connected it to
ester by means of a
Multi Player
Gamers Network Kit by Sitecom,
which provides a 100 Mbit ethernet connection using a cross-over
UTP cable.
For a long time we used it to connect to the Internet, but
on Saturday, October 27, 2001, this task was taken over by
ester. By this, it is no longer
our main working computer. Lately, the monitor attached to it,
also seems to go wrong. Occasionally, the screen will go black
for a second. It seems that the HT-unit is flashing.
On January 1, 2002, I replaced
the monitor with the Philips Brilliance
15A monitor. I also connected our scanner
to it, making it into our "scan" computer.
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, we
moved this computer, including the attached
printer, to the bedroom of Annabel.
On Saturday, May 14, 2005, I removed
the monitor and connected it to lixia.
On Friday, August 12, 2005, I moved it from the bedroom of Annabel
to the attic, because it is no longer operational without monitor.
A Sparc Station IPX with a colour monitor.
I got this machine as a replacement of the rosarium
around June 24, 1997.
It was known as the whitehouse.cs.utwente.nl on the Internet.
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A Silicon Graphics workstation, which I used all the time
that I worked with Technomatix Machining B.V.
from August 1997 till April 1999.
(You won't believe
it, but the last time I saw this machine on August 17, 2001,
it had been up and running for more than 500 days without being
rebooted.)
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A "Dell OptiPlex GX1" with:
- Pentrium III running on 500 Mhrz
- 128 Mbytes of memory
- 6 Gbyte hard disk
- CD-rom player
- Philips Brilliance 107MP monitor
I used this machine from April 1, 1999 till early November 2000.
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A "Compaq Deskpro 5133".
A "Dell OptiPlex GX110" with:
- Pentium III 733 Mhrz processor with 256 Kbytes Level 2 cache
- 128 Mbytes of memory
- ST310210 8 Gbyte SCSI hard disk
- Samsung SC-148F CD-rom player
- Intel810 4 Mbyte graphical card
- Philips Brilliance 107MP monitor
I started using this machine on October 26, 2000 and used it
till the July 5, 2001, the last day with
Philips Analytical. Shortly after I left, a ex-colleague
took the 128 Mbytes of memory out, and put it in his own
machine, giving him a total of 256 Mbytes.
We ordered this computer on February 17, 2001
with FunPrice.
On Saturday, March 3, 2001, I got it from the shop.
This computer has the following configuration, besides the normal stuff:
- AMD Athlon 800 MMX TB processor
- 128 Mbyte SDRAM 133 Mhz memory
- 30 Gbyte Maxtor 7200 RPM hard disk
- Iomega 32x8x4 IDE CD recorder
- S3-Trio 8 Mbyte EDO AGP video card
- MSI K7TPRO-2 mother board
Originally, we ordered a 30 Gbyte Seagate Baracuda-2 7200 RPM hard disk,
but we got the Maxtor. At home, one of the first things I did, was opening
the machine to have a look inside. In the evening, I removed the
seagate ST51270A hard disk from the annabel,
and installed it as a slave on the first IDE bus. Of course, I also
had to borrow the Highscreen MS 1460P monitor from annabel.
The name of the this computer is the same as the middle name of
Annabel, our daugther.
On Saturday, March 10, 2001, connected it to
andy by means of a
Multi Player
Gamers Network Kit by Sitecom,
which provides a 100 Mbit ethernet connection using a 8 meter cross-over
UTP cable.
On Saturday, October 27, 2001, I made
this into our primary machine. I hooked it up to the modem (from
andy), and installed the second hand
CD-ROM drive from annabel.
On Saturday, November 16, 2001, I added a 256 Mbyte memory module, which
I bought for less then 50 USD, just before the prices went up again.
(This means that the main memory can now hold up to 1.2 billion bits of data.)
On that day, I also removed the CD-ROM drive, and replaced it by a 16x speed
Sony CD-ROM drive, a model CDU571 with serial number 2349626, manufactured
in September 1997, which I bought from my company
on Tuesday, November 13, 2001.
On Sunday, February 24, 2002, I discovered that certain types of CD get stuck
into the Sony CD-ROM drive. So, we temporarily used the 10 speed CD-ROM
drive again during the day.
On Saturday, March 16, 2002, I upgraded
the firmware of our Iomega CD recorder.
Monday, March 25, 2002, I bought a Lifetec® digitizer tablet and
hooked it up to this computer
Monday, April 23, 2002, I upgraded the BIOS to W6330MS version 3.2 of
112901 17:20:54. I alse replaced the graphics card by a ASUS V7700 TI Deluxe.
I spend almost two whole day to get the video capature abilities to
work. Finally, I got it working when I discovered that I should not fix
the card with a screw onto the back of the computer.
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, we moved this
computer to the kitchen table.
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, the CD-ROM
burner broke down. It looks like the laser is broken. The next day, I
bought a new 52x52x24 burner for € 30 from
Funprice and installed
it in the evening. I did open the old burner, just to make sure that
the troubles had not been caused by dust or something like that.
On June 12, 2005, the Highscreen MS 1460 P Monitor, which was attached to it, died,
and I connected the Philips Brilliance 15A monitor
till June 18 when I attached the
Acer AL1913 TFT monitor to it.
On July 9, 2005, it swapped places with
lixia, and was put under the computer desk,
and attached the Philips Brilliance 15A monitor to it again.
On July 9, 2006, in an attempt to reorganize
the main drive, I lost a lot of old data.
On January 8, 2008 it became very instable
experiencing reboots and lock-ups almost immediately after starting.
On January 13, 2008, I had these problems
fixed again.
On December 22, 2008, I moved it to the attic, because two days
earlier, I placed lixia at its place
and it was placed on the table in the living room.
In the evening of March 27, 2009, I
secured some data from this computer, which required some little hacking.
On Sunday, July 4, 2010, I moved
the 52x52x24 burner into lixia.
A computer with:
- AMD Athlon 1.3
- 256 Mbyte memory
- 20 Gbyte harddisk
I started using this machine in July 2001, when I started to work
with Telic Logistics International.
I had to give it a name of a mountain, which made me think of
the Bogda Feng immediately. The last day I worked on it was
April 19, 2002.
I had never dreamt of giving a computer the name of myself,
but appearently, at BiZZdesign
this is the common practice. In a way it is also not too
bad, because I have never found it easy to remember who is
on which machine. I started working on this machine
on May 15, 2002 after it arrived in the morning.
Worked on this till February 12, 2004, when it was replaced
by the computer below.
This computer replaces the one above. It arrived on
February 12, 2004.
On April 11, 2008, it was replaced by Frans2008.
On Saturday, May 14, 2005 we bought this
computer from Media Markt.
This computer has the following configuration, besides the normal stuff:
- Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530 with HT Technology, 3.0 GHz,
1MB L2 Cache, and 800 MHz FSB
- 1024MB DDR-RAM, Dual Channel Memory
- 250 GB SATA hard disk
- DVD-ReWriter, Dual Layer
- ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB DDR-RAM video card
Besides this, we also bought a Pinnacle Studio AV/DV PCI card for video
capturing, with Pinnacle Studio version 9. At home I placed it on the
low table in the living room, and attached the Philips Brilliance 15A monitor, which I took from andy, to it.
On Monday, May 16, 2005, we placed it on
the computer desk in the living room for the time being, and attached
the Philips Brilliance 15A monitor to it.
We watched some DVD on it. From June 12 till
18, 2005, it was temporarily without monitor.
On July 9, 2005, it swapped places with
ester, and was put under the kitchen table,
and attached the Acer AL1913 TFT monitor to it.
On September 30, 2005, I encountered some
serious problems when trying to run Uru: Ages Beyond Myst,
which I was not able to resolve. Also downloading a new version of
Catalyst with drives for the graphic card did not resolve the random
crashes that occured about every five minutes.
On March 15, 2006, this computer started
to have some serious startup problems. It can only startup in safe mode.
It took me a lot of trouble to get it working again. I continued
working on this on March 17 and
march 18
On March 19, I ended up with a clean install
having to reconfigure and reinstall many things.
On May 29, 2006, I installed a new 232 Gbyte
harddisk as drive Q:.
On November 24, 2006, this computer was moved
to the room of Annabel.
On January 6, 2008, attached the Canon MP 520 all-in-one
printer to it.
On December 20, 2008, this computer was moved to living room again to
replace ester
In the evening of March 27, 2009 I
did some little hacking.
On January 25, Annabel moved the Acer AL1913 TFT monitor
upstairs to her room to attach it to Anne-Ester.
On Sunday, July 4, 2010, I installed
the 52x52x24 burner from ester.
On Sunday, July 11, 2010, it started to have
some serious problems (again). It is resetting during the Windows start-up.
I don't know what's the cause of the problem. Maybe reinstalling Windows might
solve it.
On November 22, 2007 we bought this
computer, a Q-Motion QM DTR 17/09 from Media Markt for € 699. It had XP pre-installed!
This computer has the following configuration, besides the normal stuff:
- Asus P5GC-MX motherboard
- Intel® Core™2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00Ghz
- 2GB DDR2-RAM
- SAMSUNG HD321KJ 320 GB SATA hard disk
- SH-S203B DVD-ReWriter, Dual Layer
- NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS video card
On Monday, August 9, 2010 it reported a
disk reading error during booting. It seems that the harddisk, or at least
its controller, has died. I did play with the cables, but that did not
fix the problem.
On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, I bought a
new harddisk, a Samsung HD322HJ, and installed it.
On Thursday, August 12, 2010, it seems that
problems with the disk have been 'repaired'.
I start using this computer on April 11, 2008
in my office as a replacement for Frans.
On March 21, 2009 we bought this
computer, a Samsung NC10-KA04NL netbook from DynaByte for € 399. It had XP pre-installed.
Annabel is going to use it for school.
- Intel® ATOM™-processor N270 (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz, 512 KB)
- 1 GB (DDR2) Memory
- Intel GMA 950 graphic card
- 160 GB (5400 rpm S-ATA) hard disk
- Atheros 802.11b/g wireless network
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- 1.3 MP webcam
On January 25, 2010, Annabel took the Acer AL1913 TFT monitor
from lixia and put it upstairs in her room
to use it with her netbook.
On February 27, 2010, we bought
a wireless router for this notebook and her
Ipod touch.
On May 3, 2010, I went to collect
a Samsung NC10 netbook with 2 GB of memory from a private person
for € 200.
Below a list of computers and prephials we own,
roughly in the order we got them.
Got this as a gift from Meinert.
Teco VA120 terminal
A VT100 compatibal terminal which I bought second hand
from the University of Twente. Original registration
number: "Inf 3184133". Serial number 45050093.
Compaq LTE 5000 laptop
Bought around May 200 from Philips Analytical, my employer at that time, when they were
selling used computers to the employees.
It turned out to be a very unreliable computer that at the
end failed to boot at all.
Brother matrix printer
We received this as a gift from my father. Currently not in use.
Got this as a gift
from Susan Even
On August 21, 2000. (Picture)
Looks like a Commador 64 clone.
Inherited from my father.
My mother brought it with her on March 4, 2001 when
she came to stay with us.
Not really a prephial, you would say, but because it does
not have a display, the only way to look at the pictures
is through a computer.
(picture)
I bought this on April 21, 2001
from Philips Analytical, my employer at that time, when
they were selling used computers and monitors to the employees.
Since May 2001, attached to annabel.
Since January 1, 2002, attached it
to andy. On Saturday, May 14, 2005, I attached it to
lixia. On Sunday, June 12, 2005, I attached it to ester
because the Highscreen MS 1460 P monitor died, but only
till Saturday, June 18, 2005.
I got this webcam as a fairwell gift on
July 5, 2001
on my last day working with Philips Analytical.
Currently attached to ester.
(Manuals.)
It has a build in microphone, which I have used to recover data from ancient computer tapes.
I bought this for 17.50 Euro from Conrad
on March 25, 3002 at 16:14:29.
Currently attached to andy.
Annabel often uses it to make drawings.
Technics SX-PR603
For some time it was connected with a MIDI cable to
andy, until that computer was
moved.
I bought this Flash Drive from Transcend Information for 25.00 Euro from
Funprice
at 14:47 on Friday, December 27, 2002.
I can only attach it to ester.
I used to carry it with me,
until I got another pen drive.
On April 30, 2003,
I bought a Macintosh Performa 630 (serial number CK50301Y35C),
with a Macintosh Color Display (BCGM1212) and a printer for € 35
from someone at the "vrijmarkt" in Enschede.
On December 23, 2004, I gave the printer
to Annabel to let her take it apart. On November 20, 2007, we donated
the printer to the highschool of Annabel.
Li-Xia bought a l'espion spy camera from
Megapool on
July 7, 2003 at 13:17:12 for € 19.95.
Pictures are retrieved through ester.
See my photoblog for
some of the pictures I took and read my
initial evaluation.
I bought this for € 6 on
Queen's day 2004. It is a small
back and white monitor.
I bought this second hand for € 20 (and 5.50
postages). It arrived on Wednesday, August 4, 2004. I sometimes Carry this with me.
On November 10, 2004 at
9:06:32 in the morning, Li-Xia
bought this MP3 and WMA player.
On December 23, 2004, I got a
SparcStation 5 for free. The model number is 544, and the
serial numbers are 600-3284-01, 451M3192, and M09856.
On the same day, I also got
a Sun Monitor, model GDM-20E20. This thing is really much
heavier than you would expect. The serial numbers are
0010968-9713GI1218 and 3651335-01. It was made in March 1997.
This is a 64 Mbyte USB Flash drive. I got this on
January 21, 2005 as a gift.
I used to carry it with me in my pocket
until it was replaced by a Transcend 2Gbyte Jetflash.
On Saturday, February 5, 2005, I bought
a Sweex "ADSLANNEX-A" ADSL modem router with with a 4 port switch.
On Sunday, May 15, 2005, I uploaded
the newest firmware to fix some security problems.
I bought this on Friday, April 1, 2005
from Media Markt for € 139.
On June 18, 2005, I bought this TFT to
replace the Highscreen MS 1460 P Monitor
that broke down on June 12, 2005. I attached
it to ester.
On July 9, 2005, I attached it to
lixia. In June 2010, the power supply
broke down.
On August 12, 2005, I bought this 5.1
sound system and attachted it to lixia.
I bought this on April 20, 2006.
I bought this on July 8, 2006.
I took it with me to China that summer.
Since that time, I have been using it as our back-up device.
I bought this around July 2006. I took it with me
to China that summer.
It replaced the Sony Micro Vault
that I used to carry around with me.
On February 16, 2009, it was replaced by ScanDisk Cruzer® Mirco 16GB.
I bought this monitor on November 22, 2007
for € 299.
It is attached to johan.
Bought this on January 6, 2008 for € 129 from Media Markt.
It is attachted to lixia.
36-1 Cardreader 1350
Bought this on September 6, 2008 from Media Markt
I bought this on January 22, 2009 for € 19.99.
On February 16, 2009 this replaced Transcend Jetflash V30,
which I used to carry around with me.
On June 11, 2009, I encountered
some problems with the use of TrueCrypt.
On May 20, 2009 at 17:50:35, I bought this for € 49,95
from the ANWB shop in Enschede.
On February 27, 2010 at 15:12:15,
I bought this wireless router for € 39,99 from
Paradigit. I bought it
Annabel to be used in combination with her netbook
and Ipod touch.
Below a list of computers and prephials that we owned
in the past but that we threw away.
Currently not in use. Has some problems with HT.
Disposed of on January 4, 2008.
In the morning of June 12, 2005, it died
while being attachted to ester.
Disposed of on January 4, 2008.
We bought this on 21 October 2000.
Currently not attached to any computer. Most
of the time I hook it up with ester
when I need to scan something. Starting from April 3, 2005 it
is attached to andy.
On May 7, 2009 at 10:10 I dropped this at the recycling goods shop "Het Goed".
Inherited from my father.
We took it with us on December 29, 2001 after
we stayed some days with
my mother.
Most of the time attached to andy.
On May 7, 2009 at 10:10 I dropped this at the recycling goods shop "Het Goed".
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