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Wolfram

Sat Feb 11 2006, 04:55PM

Registered Member #33 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 01:31PM
Location: Norway
Posts: 971

Aside from these there's the computer I'm using now, a 866MHz PIII with 128MB RDRAM, a 2.8GHz Celeron and a 1.2GHz AMD Duron with 256MB RAM (I found this computer today). I also have three dell mainboards with 933MHz PIIIs, I don't know what I'm going to use them for yet.

I rarely do things that my PIII 866 can't handle, and it's conveniently placed, so it gets used quite a bit. It looks very ugly, I've managed to melt the side panel (plastic, placed it too close to the fireplace) and the only things still attached to the case are the floppy drive and the mainboard. I used to have a problem with the sound card falling out when I got my foot caught in the wire for the speakers.

Regarding the old computers, I think all of them work, the only one I've not tested is the apple II in the front. One amiga has an unstable floppy drive, and two of the commodores are missing their SIDs (I keep them in a Dallas/Maxim sample box, I don't want to blow them when I experiment with the C64s).

Eartaker

Sun Feb 12 2006, 10:03AM

Registered Member #150 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 09:43AM
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SOYO mobo
P4 - 2.4Ghz 833FSB
512Mb DDR ram
100GB SATA HD
40GB UATA HD
ATI Radeon X850XT AGP 8X graphics
Soundblaster live audio
Uber cooling unit...... http://www.eartaker.co.nr
350Wpsu with added homemade ports

Nik

Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:56PM

Registered Member #53 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638

My homebrew "server" and web terminal. Its really a junker but it does its job.

Suse10
350mhz P2
300mb ram
6gb hd for the OS
120gb drive for the FTP
Manualy rounded IDE cable. <<-- The only elite feature it has.

Steve Conner

Sun Feb 12 2006, 11:56PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

Woot! "Guru Meditation"

Even has its own wikipedia entry

By the time I got my first Amiga, Commodore had got rid of it so the screen just read "Software Failure". The Amiga was a great machine even if it did have "requesters" instead of "dialog boxes" and "gadgets" instead of "drop-downs". I had an A1200 with a massive 40MB hard disk lying around until last month.

FastMHz

Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:44PM

Registered Member #179 Joined: Thu Feb 16 2006, 02:08AM
Location: Hagerstown, Maryland - Close to Prime Outlets
Posts: 287

Here's my video editing comp:

Link

The dual 1800mp is aging, but still fast...2gb RAM, 1TB+ hdd space.

And the case:

Link

An old favorite:

Link

My main system is a Athlon64 3700+ laptop.

Quantum Singularity

Mon Mar 13 2006, 12:46PM

Registered Member #158 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 09:53PM
Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 282

Since none of my systems are on top of the PC world, I'll submit my entry for least Elite lol.

This is my junior project at college, an Intel 80188 microprocessor (8bit). My lab partner and I designed the schemitc from scratch and assembled via wire wrap (we each made our own physical project). Its pretty simple, has some menus, and keeps time (allows user to set). It has provisions to control what was going to be our senior project but I never got that far. I even overclocked this beast to 20MHz perfectly stable lol. All programming was done in assembly language (what a pain in the ___)

P.S. I bet some folks here can utilize a lot of ram... my system is running 512Mb and I have never exceeded it. I am a power user at times, I even have a screen shot running a bunch off apps: word, 8 browser windows, 3 explorer windows, front page, bryce 3d (rendering program), realplayer, adobe photoshop, and my tv capture viewer, all at once. I still have yet to utilize more than 450Mb of ram running all of this...

insomniac

Tue Mar 14 2006, 07:19AM

Registered Member #318 Joined: Tue Mar 14 2006, 07:07AM
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I have the original-gamer (OG) packard. side by side with my new box. She runs the original games. Warcraft, wolfenstien, DOOM I&II, Descent I&II. Overclocked stable to 166Mhz (pushing it further with an 80W peltier soon), shes a tough gamer for her age. 1Mb cirrus logic, onboard sound, USB, 16x cdrom.

Im also redoing my long-lost gaming website, back in the days of GTA 1 and 2. Naming it "Homie dont play that game", seeing how it wont play a darn thing aside from dos games. Figured the name would be unique and stupid enough to sound funny.

Part Scavenger

Wed Mar 15 2006, 05:28AM

Registered Member #79 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:35AM
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 673

Does an XBOX count? I hacked mine and I LOVE it. I'd kill anyone who tries to take it!

XBOX V1.6
733Mhz

upgraded to 160 gig HD
X3 chip with side panel, and X3 bois.
In game reset
XBMC installed
Linux soon if I get the time to figure out how to do the "blind install" because you can't see the install screen on a V1.6

EDIT=> Done! It now boots xDSL and Gentoox! Woot!

It's awesome, I have my entire CD collection ripped to it, all my XBOX games saved on the HDD, dosXbox(for the oldies!), over 1500 Mame games, Doom, Duke3D. I can even dump movies off the Dish DVR my dad and I hacked onto my HDD and watch in my room via the nifty network I've got with my computers. Even my DVD faves are on there. It even has modchip disable for xbox live, not like I can use it with dial-up, but hey. And because the X3 has SMT LED's all over it, the guts glow a cool blue color.

Paul Mataruso

Wed Mar 22 2006, 02:39AM

Registered Member #336 Joined: Wed Mar 22 2006, 01:34AM
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I have a Dell Inspiron B130 Laptop, AMD Duron based sever running Fedora Core 4 (ssh,ftp,samba,httpd,etc), 333 mhz genaric computer running fressco linux, 400 mhz based server for DNS and windows domain hosting, a Compaq Presario with an intel celeron procceser 900mhz, D-Link DI-524 wireless router, Linksys BEFSR11, Cisco 770 Seris Router, 4 Nortel Networks BPS 2000 Switches, 7 Accton unmanged 24 port hubs, 3 24 port netgear hubs, 1 Sega Dreamcast running knoppix with ssh,ftp,samba, hacked xbox with xbox linux running the Microsoft XDK. 7 computer beowolf cluster, 4 computer running Microsoft Windows Datacenter configured in a cluster, 1 Dell XPS for multimedia stuff. All the server are linked with 1000baseTX fiber optic cable and the rest are wireless at 54mbps or wired at 100mpbs to the main cisco catalist switch.

Steve Conner

Wed Mar 22 2006, 10:31AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

Oh man! Where do you keep all that stuff, and who pays the electric bill

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