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I love copmuters, something magical about them to me. I got my first computer when I was 13, a trs-80 model 1, 16K (yes K) of ram, casette drive, and blocky graphics. That was 26 years ago.
I wrote programs on it, a lot of different ones (chess, adventure games, math) some of which I cannot recall. For it's day it filled my needs.
Now I own a few computers: Sun Enterprise E450, 4 processors, gig ram, 8-18gig HD's, 2-36-gigHD, 21" Sun monitor with color (wow - color! We have come a long way)
Usage: Surf the net, programming (c mainly) generally related to number theory, testing out new script ideas.
Future for the machine: Finish up some oracle stuff on it and make it my main DB for a variety of things. Will continue to use for day to day things (and may partition more deeply if and when I switch from solaris 8 to 10)
Sun Ultra 2, gig ram, 2-36 gig drives, 17" color monitor (and I love sun monitors,crystal clear)
Usage: Testing builds Future: dedicated to analysis
P650 running windows 2000 server Usage: currently running apache and holds some old personal data. future: debian or gentoo linux, maybe even vector linux, dedicated to R&D for linux subjects and coding.
P200, P266, IBM risc systems - all to have vector linux (removing redhat from them and using a stripped down build, may also consider debian instead of vector) and to be used in a variety of things from assembly language to security testing. Broad range of things.
Other Window machine - a 2 gig machine running windows, for the wife.
This list does not include my trs-80 model 3 or model 100, or future systems I will have in house shortly (mainly all suns).
The WHY of this post for me - I read so often about faster systems, latest this that and the other. All fine if you're building a game machine - or something for the business world (where I deal with midrange servers mostly) but most the people I know outside the business (family included) mainly use the PC for word processing, digital imaging, surfing the net, and some generic style games (like solitaire and the like). To me, personally, you can do those things with vector linux running kde or gnome and do it on a p266 or similar machine (in other words, don't toss out a computer to a landfill that is old, they can still be of use to many!).
So have at it DUers! What is your system for, what would you like to use it (them) for - from webhosting to just hanging out here, sound off and have a geeky night discussing the things you love about your system(s).
Mine might be old, no where near what many here might have, but they still bring me happiness and productivity. let's have some fun and de-stress for a thread :)
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