Computer stuff over the years

[robbat2]

From an email, I realized that I have a fair history of computer gear that I have had over the years. I finally went and finished putting dates on my gallery of computer hardware, and have a fun partial timeline below.

I didn't have a digital camera before this point, so these are the earliest images.
April 2001: http://tinyurl.com/2hpmw6
That is indeed xeyes. Using a Win32 X server, as my linux box was primarily a server, with an exceedingly junky 1Mb graphics card.

March 2002: http://tinyurl.com/2hf8r3
Webserver/router (left), along with machine that was being worked on for TechBC Teknights (it was sloth.games.techbc.ca after that).

March 2004: http://tinyurl.com/29avrp
IMG_7705: SGI Visual Workstation (VisWS) 320, SGI O2
IMG_7706: Pentium 233MMX desktop, VIA C3-1, Athlon fileserver

May 2005: http://tinyurl.com/24p9fh
The desk seen previously has moved into my bedroom, and the entire wall area is now a workspace.

July 2005: http://tinyurl.com/22yxzh
After returning from LinuxTag 2005, I cleaned up the mess!

August 2005: http://tinyurl.com/ysrpda
Going vertical now, due to lack of space.

January 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2cntcq
This is my home office. I do need to clean off the left side of the desk, so that Marissa can sit there, but there is also a lot of stuff that I need to finish off and sell, including the Sun FibreChannel gear, and 3 ATX machines.

Comments

[amethest.livejournal.com]

My dearest, a while back I wrote a post where I listed chronilogically the relationships I have had with, ya, know PEOPLE, HUMANOIDS, ugly bags of mostly water, if you will.

You have just done same with COMPUTERS, ya know, hunks 'o sillicon. With pictures!

Do you keep a framed photograph of your first love, an atari 86, on your desk?

When's your relationship meme going to be posted, mmmm?

[amethest.livejournal.com]

*reads* Oh, wait, who is this Marissa of whom you speak? Is that your laptop?

[lamesuperpower.livejournal.com]

I get all teary-eyed thinking about my first computer - an illegal ZX Spectrum clone called CoBRA, illegally assembled by students from stolen (and often mismatched) parts, in communist Romania. Now that's a computer! It played robotron and zorro!

Another cool computer I had was a german clone of a Amstrad somethingorother called Schneider CPC. That one had 8 bits of color! And a swank dot matrix! And a floppy drive!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

indeed it my name. check out my resume ;-). IsoHunt is my dayjob, but most of my development time is in things that aren't IsoHunt itself.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Apologies for not responding sooner, the email notification for this comment never turned up.

Err, what do you mean by move over my way? The founder of IsoHunt is a Vancouverite, and I ended up connected to him doing some MySQL consulting for one of the others, and only after that he found that I was in Vancouver :-).