My profiles [home based LAN]
PC#2 [my workstation]:
Intel P5 166 Mhz [430HX chipset]
64 MB DRAM [FPM-yuck!], 512K LII Cache
ATA/IDE Hard Disk Drives [Pri master = 2.1GB, Pri slave = 1.2 GB]
6X ATAPI CD-ROM
ATI on board SVGA controller
Crystal Sounds CS4232 [on board]
3COM Etherlink III [ISA bus]NIC
Boca 28.8 KBPS MODEM [ISA bus]
17" SVGA monitor
HP LaserJet 6P [shared printer]
Logitech scroll mouse [PS/2]
Tolerable Speakers with intregal power amp
Kurta / ISONE digitizer tablet [12" x 12"] - connects via COM port
Programs, apps and O/S:
Operating System: Windows 95 [OSR2.5]
Netscape Communicator 4.7xx
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 [full version]
AutoCAD Release 14
Visio 4.7 technical
Circuit Maker 5.0xx [PSPICE type sim]
Corel 4.0
Form Tool 97
Turbosketch
Visual Basic 5.0
Paper Port
PK ware
Cleansweep 3.0
WinFax Pro 8.0
Excel 97
Word 97
Lotus Smart Suite 96
This PC was purchased new June 96 [I still use it]
PC#3 [wife's workstation]
Intel P55C-MMX-166 Mhz [430VX chipset]
48 MB DRAM EDO [60ns], 1024K LII Cache
ATA2/3 IDE hard drive [2.1GB], ATAPI 12X CD-ROM
On board ATI SVGA Video controller, on board Yamaha OPL3 audio system [PCI connection, but on board]
15" SVGA monitor, Logitech scroll mouse [PS/2]
3COM EtherlinkIII [ISA bus] NIC, Boca 33.6 KBPS MODEM [ISA bus]
HP Inkjet 720 C
Programs, O/S, etc:
Operating System: Windows 95 [OSR2.5]
Adobe Acrobat 4.0, Lotus Smart Suite 97, PK ware, cleansweep 3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0x, Family tree maker 7.0, Print artist, print shop, Goo, Flex talk [a cool text to speech program], virtual pool, you don't know jack [1,2 and 3].
Purchased new - November, 1997
PC#4 [workstation/server]:
Pentium II - 233 Mhz [slot 1], AL440LX chipset
64 MB SDRAM [DIMM/PC66], 2048K LII cache [on CPU]
SVGA card - PCI bus, EPP/ECP parallel port adapter [ISA bus] - in addition to on board LPT port.
3COM Etherlink XL [10/100MB] NIC
15" Viewsonics SVGA monitor
UDMA/33 - IDE hard drive [3.2 GB], ATAPI 24X CD-ROM
HP Scanjet 5100CXI, Lexmark 3200 color inkjet printer [shared printer]
HP DesignJet 450C Color Plotter, D size media [shared plotter]
Programs, O/S, etc:
Operating System: Windows 95 [OSR2.5]
Microsoft Office 97 - Professional, Adobe Acrobat 4.0, AutoCAD LT 13, AutoCAD Release 14, Paint Shop Pro 7, Paper Port, Omnipage Pro 8.0 [for OCR], Bass Box 6 Pro [audio speaker design], Xover 3.0 Pro [audio crossover network design], Norton Antivirus, PKware, Cleansweep 3.0, Winfax Pro 8.0.
This machine was built 6 - 98
All workstations connected via 3COM 10MB - 10BaseT Ethernet hub.
Each Workstation uses 3COM NIC [Network Interface Card] utilities.
Previously used machine [prior to PC#2 in June, 1996]:
Intel 80386SX-16, 4MB DRAM [100ns], 850MB IDE hard drive
one [1] 3.5" H.D. floppy disk drive {A:}
one [1] 5.25" H.D. floppy disk drive {B:}
VGA graphics adapter [ISA bus], Sound Blaster Pro 2 [ISA bus]
Epson MX 80 Impact Printer [later changed to Epson FX 1180 Impact Printer]
HP Legacy 6000 series laser printer [serial port connection! talk about slow]
14" VGA monitor.
Programs, O/S, etc:
Operating system: MSDOS 6.22 [first version was MSDOS 5.0, then 6.2, then 6.22].
Windows version: 3.10 [shell, of course!]
Direct Access 5.0 [DOS shell / application launcher], DOS Sketch, Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS, MSword for DOS, Word perfect for DOS, Wordstar gold for DOS,
CUPS - Nuclear and Particle physics simulation, waves and optics simulation, and electricity and magnetism simulation for DOS, Misc. shareware electronic programs for DOS, misc. shareware and full version games for DOS, printshop for DOS, Bannermania for DOS, Xtree Gold for DOS, CopyQM for DOS [disk copy utility], MS works for Windows, Excel 3.0 for windows, circuit maker 3.0 for windows, visual basic 3.0 for windows, AutoCAD LT 2 for windows, wordstar for windows, correct grammer for windows.
Received this machine in December, 1993
Used a few AT machines [80286] here also, along with an old antique machine - TRS80 model 2 - uses the Z80 CPU and 32K of RAM. does not contain fixed disk drive [hard drive]. Bootstrapping was achived by loading DOS into RAM from an 8" floppy disk. after successful booting, applications could be loaded into RAM from another floppy disk, or written in BASIC [which was saved to floppy disk when finished].
Scott
