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Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:43AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445

I don't have a single elite computer, just a lot of them :) Admittedly they are not all 'mine' although they do belong to the rest of the family, and I do have complete control over them 8)
laptop1:
Inspiron 600m, 1.2ghz PM, 1.28GB ram, 60GB 10krpm hdd, dvdrw burner, 14.1" sxga, (that be 1400x1050 pixels @32bit) screen, integrated wifi, gigabit ethernet...
Laptop2:
Dell b210 laptop, .256GB ram, 10GB hdd, 14.1" xvga screen...
Laptop3
IBM thinkpad, p3, .128GB ram 20gb hdd, 12" screen, cdrw drive...
Laptop4:
Compac Contura 400c, 386 processor, .3GB hdd, .004GB ram, floppy drive, 8" vga screen...
Desktop1:
Dell desperon 4600, p4 2.66ghz, .512GB ram, dvd reader/cdrw drive, 30bg hdd, gforce4 agp8x video card with a 19" lcd and a 14" crt (Sony rack mount, dated 1994) runinng as a split desktop at 1280x2048 @32bit, gigabit ethernet, audio out going to stereo in my room,
Desktop2:
P4 2.4GHz, .512BG ram, 3x120GB maxtor drives in a raid0+hot swappable, dual layer dvd rw drive, raid cd burner and separate reader, and a normal cd rom drive1024x768 14" lcd, audio out going to a stereo and a 1watt fm transmitter so we hear the tunes all through the .7acre yard :)
Dsktop3:
P4 2.5GHz, .512GB ram, dual layer dvd rw, 100gb hdd, tv out going to 50" reverse projection wide screen...
Desktop4:
K6-550 athlon .550GHz, .192GB ram, floppy drive, cd rom drive, 3 a/d d/a din and dout cards (assorted types/ages), video capture card + wireless receiver + x-10 line interface to control the wireless x-10 cameras around house...
There are a desktop 6, 7, and 8 but they are not connected to the network/monitor so I am not counting them.

To top it all off I have a 2.4mb/s cable modem (measured, 300k downloads easy), a wtr-54g router+b/g access point next to the modem/desktop2, a wap54 b/g access point and a 5 port hub for the stuff in my room, (house is too big for a single access point !lol ), and a 5 port hub in the tv room for when you need ethernet next to the tv...

Can you guess the 3 comps in my room?

tecNik

Thu Feb 09 2006, 10:55AM

Registered Member #77 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 10:24AM
Location: Leicestershire, England
Posts: 26

The LinkSys NLSU2 (Know as Slug) Is one of the most elite little machines I have ever owned IMHO. There is loads of information online about modding/overclocking and at the end of the day you have a tiny embedded computer running Linux.

I'm now modding my Slug. Its now overclocked to 266MHz, I've added a serial port for terminal access and I'm trying to enable the extra USB ports.

BTW, Its running UnSlung Linux 5.5.

Bjørn

Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:24PM

Registered Member #27 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058

So where is the Fastload cartridge? A C64 is not Elite without a Fastload cartridge!

I use Pink Floyd, that is why I need a reset button since it will stay in memory. Cartridges take up too much valuable I/O.

Ben

Fri Feb 10 2006, 06:19AM

Vigilatny
Registered Member #17 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:47PM
Location: NL
Posts: 158

BjÃ¸rn BÃ¦verfjord wrote ...

A Commodore 64 with 65534 bytes of RAM and an industrial strength microswitch reset button. You are not elite unless you know why two bytes of RAM are missing.

No you're not elite unless you know what a Guru Meditation error comes from.

McFluffin

Fri Feb 10 2006, 07:20AM

Registered Member #119 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 06:26AM
Location: USA
Posts: 114

Dual 2.2 Xeon on a Tyan motherboard. Has two SCSI controllers plus standard IDE and floppy controllers. Up to 4GB of RDRAM, currently have only 640MB in it though. Missing a case...but loads games really quick! Runs Microsoft Server 2000, hoping to put Fedora 4 on a second hard drive. Uses GForce4 256MB Nvidea graphics card.
I have another 7 running computers at my house, but my pride and joy is my network. I also have my Linksys WRT54GS(and a WRT54G) which I'm proud of. Uses Hyper-WRT(if I recall...) and has two 9dbi antennas. Its a monster AP and is capable of knocking out all 2.4GHz phones in the area I am told. Runs Linux 2.8 I think. You can SSH, telnet, FTP and other fun stuff into it. Backed up by a Cisco 3810 T-1 router(alas, no T-1 line...) and a Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch. Have an older Linksys access point, 2 Linksys swiches/routers, 1 Linksys switch, a Catalyst 1700 switch, and 3 more Cisco routers all on the same network. Theres also 1 more Cisco router which doesn't have a power supply, so its not in use. I managed to make one for the others, so I'll eventually make one when I get a chance.
My TI-89 is my best calculator. Attached is a pic of some of my old computers.

Bjørn

Fri Feb 10 2006, 07:23AM

Registered Member #27 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058

No you're not elite unless you know what a Guru Meditation error comes from.

Out of my memory I recall something about one of the Amiga developers sitting in front of the screen with crossed legs resembling a guru while debugging. So they started calling a crash for guru meditation and put it into the trap handler of the Amiga.

It never helped much since the trap number never told me something I did not know, the crash always happened in the code I changed last and most of the crashes seemed to involve runaway DMA that wiped out everything and locked it up solid.

Carbon_Rod

Fri Feb 10 2006, 07:40AM

Registered Member #65 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:43AM
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Posts: 1155

No you're not elite unless you know what a Guru Meditation error comes from.

Or have RTFM.... he he he... goto programs are funny...

They used to send software over FM radio a few times a week :D
Now days some dudes hotwire the iPod to act as a tape drive.
The c64 can be modded to do a HPIB host device too.

You are only 3lite if you know why they used them in the first stealth plane.

Alfons

Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:55PM

Registered Member #134 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:44PM
Location: Belgium
Posts: 86

My computers are not really that elite, but elite enough to post them anyway

Desktop: AMD Sempron 2600+ with GigaByte K8VT800 motherboard, 512MB RAM, one 120GB HD and one 40GB HD
Laptop: brand new Acer Aspire 3005WLMi featuring AMD Sempron Mobile 3300+, 512 MB RAM and 80GB HD (only 4800rpm )
Attic-top : Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 1

Maz

Sat Feb 11 2006, 03:15PM

Registered Member #111 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 01:04AM
Location: Menasha,Wisconsin
Posts: 65

my really nice computer for a few years ago

2.6 ghz celeron processor, 512k ram, 256k videocard (overclocked), an all in one dvd drive, and 200 gb of hard drive space (40gb filled with legal music)

one thing i can say is "always check your motherboard for screws before powering up"

there was one sitting right next to my bios...it ended up frying everything except for the psu.

Avalanche

Sat Feb 11 2006, 04:05PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

Ok, here's my 'elite' pc. It's getting on a bit now, it was a lot more elite a couple of years ago when new!

ABit NF7 Mainboard
AthlonXP 2600+ @ 2800+ (Barton Core)
200GB total storage
512Mb Kingston DDR memory overclocked to 356Mhz
Replaced northbridge cooler with a passive one (forgot the brand)
Tagan 350Watt SILENT PSU
120mm Antec fans x2
Antec QUIET case
GeForce Fx5200 passively cooled GFX
Creative 5.1 digital soundcard
Digital TV card
DVD/CD/RW combo drive (Sony)
DVD dual layer re-writer (LG)
Fan speed controller/temperate monitor etc

And that's about it. It is totally SILENT which was a big thing when I was building it. Literally you have to be less than a meter to tell if it's on or not! This was important at the time, so I splashed out for the quietest kit I could find (mainly the case, fans, heatsinks and PSU). There are 2 main case fans - 120mm ball race Antecs running at 1200RPM like windmills. If it gets warm, an alarm sounds on the front panel, and I just crank the fans up. Have never needed to though. I'm really reluctant to upgrade or change anything unless I'm absolutely sure it will remain silent - because I couldn't get used to a noisy PC again.

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