The List...
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The List...
The addition of this pages confirms without the possibility of error that I am indeed a true all-out geek. :-) At any rate, here's a list of the systems (and gadgets worth noting) I've owned and the year, as best I can remember, that I acquired them. There is some overlap on my owning these machines, and I have indeed occasionally owned the same machine-type several times.
All linked photos are of the hardware I owned at the time. The units listed in boldface are still in my collection.
1) Atari 2600 (1980-ish)
2) TI-99/4A (1982)
3.3MHz 16-bit TMS9900 CPU
TI Peripheral Expansion Chassis
TI RS-232 Interface Board
TI 32K Memory Expansion Board
5.25" floppy drive
TI Speech Synthesizer Module
TI Joystick Controllers
Montgomery Ward 13" composite monitor / TV
Smith Corona TP-1 daisywheel printer
3) Apple //c (1984)
1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
Apple //c External 5.25" floppy drive
Apple Monitor //c and stand
Street Electronics' Cricket
Apple ImageWriter Printer
Hayes Mach III Joystick
4) Atari 400 (1984)
5) Commodore 128 (1985)
6) Macintosh (original, 128K, etc.) (1985)
7) Laser 2000 (Apple II+ compatible) (1985)
8) Amiga 1000 (first one sold in Virginia) (1985)
Amiga 1010 external 3.5" floppy drive
256K internal memory expansion cartridge
Okidata Okimate 20 color, wax printer (24-element)
9) Apple IIe enhanced (1986)
1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
Apple Extended 80-column Card
Apple DuoDisk drive & controller
Apple UniDisk 3.5 & controller
Apple Color Monitor II
Sweet Micro Systems' Mockingboard C
Prometheus ProModem 1200A 1200-baud modem
CH Products Mach III joystick
Apple ImageWriter II color printer
10) Atari 520ST (1986)
Internal memory expanded to 1MB (from 512K)
dual Atari SF314 3.5" floppy drives
Atari SC1224 color RGB monitor
Atari SM124 monochrome hi-res monitor
Epson LX-800 printer
MicroMate A520 STation all-in-one system stand
11) Apple IIgs (1987)
2.8MHz 65C816, ROM 01 motherboard (256K on board)
Apple Color RGB Monitor
Apple 3.5" floppy drive
Central Point 3.5" Floppy Drive w/ Universal Disk Controller
Apple 5.25" Floppy drive
Apple ImageWriter II color printer
AST RAMFast board w/ 1024K RAM + 32K EEPROM
MDIdeas SuperSonic stereo board
ThunderScan image scanning Imagewriter cartridge
AST VisionPlus video digitizer board
Kensington System Saver IIgs fan / surge protector
CH Products Mach III Joystick
Bose RoomMate speakers - IIgs "Platinum" edition (no Apple logo colors though...)
12) Laser 128 (1988) (Apple //c compatible) (1988)
Side-mounted, two-slot card cage
- Sweet Micro Systems' Mockingboard C
- Prometheus ProModem 1200A 1200-baud modem
A+ Mouse (optical with metallic grid-pad)
13) Atari Mega2 ST (1989)
14) Tandy 1000TL (1989)
15) Apple IIe (1989)
1.02MHz 6502 CPU
Apple Extended 80-column Card
Apple Disk II drive & controller
Amdek Amdisk 1 3" floppy drive (info)
Central Point Alaska Card (copy-card)
16) Amiga 2000 (1989)
17) Apple //c+ (1990)
18) Tandy 1000TL (1990)
8MHz 80286 CPU
30GB MiniScribe "hard card"
19) Apple Macintosh LC (1991)
20) Amiga 1200HD (1993)
40MB internal HD
Commodore 1960 monitor
LineLink 14.4Kbps modem
Epson AP-3250 printer
21) TI-99/4A (1993)
22) eCesys 486DX2-66 based PC (to run NeXTSTEP for Intel, black in color) (1994)
Fast JCIS motherboard with ISA, VLB, custom WinGine slots
16MB RAM
Quantum ProDrive 700S SCSI HD (700MB)
Toshiba XM-3401B 2x SCSI CD-ROM drive (external, caddy-based)
Pro Audio Spectrum 16 audio (later replaced with Gravis UltraSound 1MB)
WinGine high-bandwidth framebuffer video (later replace with Hercules Dynamite Power VLB)
Altima 17" shadow-mask CRT (black case) (later replaced with Nokia 447Xi 17" CRT (Trinitron))
HP DeskJet 520 printer
Cardinal 28.8Kbps modem (external)
Dual 16550 FIFO buffer serial board (4 serial ports total in system)
23) Amiga 1000 (1995)
24) TI-99/4A (1996)
25) systemboard swap on 486 to ASUS PVI-486SP3 w/ AMD 486DX4-120 (1996)
26) Sony PlayStation - MOD CHIPPED (1996)
27) AT&T PC6300 (1996)
28) CPU upgrade on PC to AMD 5x86-133 (o'clocked to 160MHz) (1996)
29) Nintendo 64 (1997)
30) USRobotics PalmPilot Personal (1997)
31) Philips Velo 1 HPC (1997)
32) Newton MessagePad 2000 (w/ MessagePad 2100 upgrade) (1997)
33) AMD K6-233 based PC: (1997)
AMD K6-233 running @ 225MHz
ASUS TX-97 systemboard (overclocked to 75MHz, hence the 225MHz on CPU)
64mb 10ns SDRAM
ACTiSYS external IrDA adapter (to motherboard IR port)
Diamond FirePort40 UltraSCSI adapter w/ ~7GB storage (Seagate, IBM drives)
Hercules Stingray 128 2D video (Alliance chipset)
Diamond Monster3D II (12mb - 4/4/4/0) 3Dfx Voodoo2-based 3D accelerator
SoundBlaster AWE64 Value audio (hooked to Bose RoomMates)
Epson Stylus Color 600 ink-jet printer
Nokia 447Xi 17" display (Trinitron)
3Com EtherLink III PCI ethernet adapter going to General Instruments cable modem
Logitech 3-button mouse (considered a leathal weapon in deathmatch...)
Running Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation v4 currently
34) HP OmniGo 100 (1998)
35) Amstrad PenPad PDA-600 (1998)
36) Motorola Envoy 100 (1998)
37) Sony MagicLink PIC-1000 (1998)
38) Newton MessagePad 100 (1998)
39) Philips Nino 312 (pre-production) (1998)
40) Philips Nino 312 (1998)
41) Apple Macintosh 512K ("Fat Mac") (upgraded to 4mb RAM) (1998)
42) Apple Macintosh Plus (upgraded to 4mb RAM) (1998)
43) "Blue & White" Power Macintosh G3 (1999)
Power Macintosh G3 400MHz
512MB RAM, 1MB 200MHz backside cache
6GB UltraATA drive
Initio Miles UltraWide SCSI PCI Controller (bus-mastering DMA)
9GB 10,000RPM UltraWide SCSI Seagate Cheeetah drive
4GB 7,200RPM Ultra SCSI IBM UltraStor drive
Apple 56Kbps modem, internal
Zip drive, internal
Rage 128 graphics board w/ 16mb SGRAM (in 66MHz PCI slot) [standard bundle]
3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB 3D graphics board
Apple 17" Studio Display (attached to Rage 128)
ATI Xclaim 3D (Rage Pro, 4MB) video board (second video board in system)
Nokia 447Xi 17" Trinitron screen (attached to Xclaim3D)
Epson Stylus Color 600 (with USB<->Parallel converter)
Wired via Bell Atlantic's InfoSpeed ADSL service (640Kbps)
Microtek ScanMaker MX6 flatbed scanner (USB)
Saitek Cyborg 3D USB joystick (USB)
Que! Drive CD-RW drive (USB)
Aiwa 8GB Travan tape drive (USB)
Razer BoomSlang 5-button, 2000dpi "gaming mouse" (USB)
Logitech WheelMouse (LED, no ball)
GeeThree Stealth Serial Port (for LocalTalk to IIgs system (below))
Cambridge SoundWorks "SoundWorks" satellite / bass speaker system
44) Philips Nino 510 (color) (1999)
45) 3Com Palm V (1999)
46) Handspring Visor (1999)
47) Apple IIgs system (1999)
2.8MHz 65C816, ROM 3 mobo (1.125MB RAM on-board) in "Limited Woz Edition" case
Apple Color RGB Monitor
Two Apple 3.5" drives, Apple 5.25" drive
Sirius RAM IIgs mem exp. board w/ 4MB (5.125MB total in system) [previosuly unused]
Kensington System Saver IIgs [previously unused]
Focus ~500MB IDE hard-card [previously unused]
SoundMeister )))stereo((( board (audio in/out)
CH Products Mach III joystick
Cambridge SoundWorks "PC Works" satellite / bass speaker system [previously unused]
48) Psion Series 5mx (2000)
49) NeXTstation Turbo Color system (2000)
33MHz 68040, 128MB RAM, 2GB SCSI HD unit running NeXTSTEP v3.3
21" MegaPixel Color Display
NeXT SoundBox
Toshiba 12x SCSI CD-ROM (ext)
50) Netpliance i-opener "internet machine" - HACKED (2000)
200MHz IDT WinChip2 (w/ 3DNow!) (replacing orig. WinChip 200MHz)
4.8GB, 2.5" IDE HD
LinkSys 10/100Mbit USB->ethernet adapter
PFUCA Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard
Kensington Orbit trackball
...running MS Windows 98
51) Apple Newton MessagePad 130 (2000) [new]
52) Apple Newton eMate 300 (2000) [new]
53) Apple Power Macintosh 6100 (2000)
66MHz PowerPC 601 (33MHz system bus)
24MB RAM, 400MB int. HD, 480MB ext. HD
1MB L2 cache module [new]
Apple 15" Portrait Display (256-level greyscale, 640x870 res.)
Zip Drive SCSI (ext.)
Apple Design Keyboard & Apple ADB Mouse II [new]
Apple Internet Transceiver (AAUI -> 10BaseT)
54) Compaq iPAQ 3630 PocketPC (2000)
55) Amiga 2000 (2000) [new]
7.14MHz 68000, ECS chipset, 1MB CHIP RAM
GVP Series II HC+8 SCSI board w/ 770MB HD & 2MB FAST RAM [new]
ASDG Dual Serial Board[new]
Switch-Itt ROM Switcher (3.1 ROM & 1.3 ROM)
2nd internal 3.5" floppy[new]
Commodore 1084S RGB monitor
Epyx 500XJ joystick [new]
...running AmigaDOS 3.1 & AmigaDOS 1.3
56) Amiga 1200 (Tower) (2000) [new]
Escom Amiga 1200, 16MHz 68EC020, 2MB Chip RAM [new]
ElBox "Winner Tower" (A1200 motherboard mounted in tower) [new]
Blizzard A1260 68060 50MHz accelerator w/ 24MB Fast RAM [new]
Blizzard SCSI module [new]
1GB Fujitsu SCSI HD
12x Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive [new]
FlickerMasterT scan-doubler/flicker-fixer [new]
Samtron 17" monitor [new]
...running AmigaOS 3.9
57) Compaq iPAQ 3630 PocketPC (2001)
CF sleeve converted to SilverSlider
Viking 128MB CF card
58) Sony Playstation 2 (2001)
PS2 main unit connected via component video cable to (new) 27" Sony Wega TV
Sony 8MB 'MagicGate' Memory Card
Saitek IR DVD Remote (w/ passthru)
Sony PS2 Horizontal Stand
59) Apple Power Mac G4 - Dual 800 (2001)
Dual 800MHz G4 (PowerPC 7450 rev 2.1) processors (256K L2 cache)
768MB PC133 SDRAM
Dual 2MB 400MHz (200MHz DDR) L3 caches
60GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP 7,200 RPM UltraATA drive (internal)
40GB IBM Deskstar 40GV 5,400 RPM UltraATA drive (internal)
160GB Maxtor 3000XT 5,400 RPM FireWire (Oxford 911) drive (external)
SuperDrive (CD/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-R) (internal)
Zip 250 drive (internal)
nVIDIA GeForce 3 64MB graphics board (AGP4x)
ATI Rage Orion (Rage 128) 16MB graphics board (PCI, for 2nd monitor)
Dual Sony CPD-G420S 19" FD Trinitron displays
Apple 56Kbps modem (internal) replaced by GeeThree Stealth Serial Port (for network to IIgs)
Epson Stylus 777i USB color inkjet printer
Microtek ScanMaker X6 USB color, flatbed scanner
Apple Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse (optical)
Saitek Cyborg 3D USB joystick
Cambridge SoundWorks "SoundWorks" 2.1 speaker system
60) Apple iPod (2001)
61) Sega Dreamcast (2002)
62) Atari 800XL (2002)
63) Atari 130XE (2002)
2x Atari 1050 5.25" floppy drives
Atari 1027 letter quality printer
64) Sony Clie S360 (PalmOS) (2002)
65) Apple Macintosh Plus (2002)
8MHz 68000 CPU
Upgraded to 4MB RAM
Asante EN/SC SCSI->Ethernet adapter [new]
External Rodime 20MB SCSI HD
66) Apple PowerCD (2002) [new]
67) (Original) Macintosh (128K) (2002) [1901st Mac produced at Fremont, CA plant during 38th week of '84]
68) 12" Apple iBook 700 (2002)
700MHz IBM PowerPC G3 "Sahara" (512K L2 cache)
384MB RAM
40GB HD
Combo DVD/CD-RW drive
AirPort Wireless Networking
69) Nintendo GameCube (2002)
70) SGI O2 Workstation (2003)
175MHz MIPS R10000 CPU (1MB L2 cache)
256MB RAM
68GB Quantum UltraWide SCSI 10,000 RPM HD
12x SCSI CD-ROM drive
A/V Module (audio, composite video, s-video in/out)
O2 Cam
SGI O2 Workstation Flat Panel Monitor Adapter
SGI 1600SW Flat Panel Monitor (17.3" diag, 1600x1024 res, 110dpi)
"Granite" SGI keyboard & mouse
Running IRIX v6.5.17m
71) Acorn Archimedes A5000 (2003)
72) TI-99/4A system (2003)
TI-99/4A [NEW]
3.3MHz 16-bit TMS9900 CPU
TI Peripheral Expansion Box
TI 32K Memory Expansion Card
Myarc RS-232 Card
TI Disk Controller Card
5.25" floppy drive
73) HP-9000 712/60 (2003)
60MHz PA-RISC CPU
2GB SCSI HD
64MB RAM
Running NeXTSTEP for PA-RISC v3.3
74) Amiga 1200 (tower) (2004)
Amiga 1200 motherboard (14.3MHz 68EC020 CPU) [new]
Customized Noblesse ATX mid-tower case from Revanche LLC [new]
Blizzard A1260 accelerator w/ 66MHz 68060 CPU (overclocked 60MHz unit)
Blizzard SCSI module [new]
2MB CHIP RAM / 64MB FAST RAM
2GB SCSI HD
NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive
FlickerMagicT internal scan-doubler/flicker-fixer [new]
Sony 19" G420 CRT
AmigaDOS v3.9 installed
75) Pentium III 700 (2004)
700MHz Pentium III CPU
768MB PC100 SDRAM
20GB ATA HD
16x CD-ROM drive (EIDE)
Voodoo3 AGP gfx board
SoundBlaster Live! PCI soundcard
3Com 10/100 Ethernet board
76) Power Macintosh G5 (2004)
dual 2.5GHz G5 (PowerPC 970fx) CPUs
4.5GB RAM
WD Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM external LaCie FireWire 800 HD (2MB cache)
30" Apple Cinema Display
GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL AGP video
3-port FireWire PCI card
Apple iSight FireWire camera
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers
77) Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 (2004)
162MHz StrongArm CPU
16MB linear flash card
8MB linear flash card
US Robotics Megahertz 33.6Kbps PCMCIA modem w/ X-JACK connector
Apple NiMH MP2x00 battery & Apple 4x AA battery tray
78) Apple Newton eMate 300 (2004)
79) Nintendo DS (2004)
80) C64-DTV (2004)
81) C-One (2004)
82) Commodore 64C (2005)
Commodore 64C computer
2x Commodore 1541 floppy drive (brown enclosure)
Commodore 1702 monitor
83) Mac mini (2005)
1.42GHz G4 Processor
1GB RAM
80GB HD
"Combo drive" - DVD/CD/CD-RW
84) Sony PSP (2005)
1GB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro DUO
85) Apple //c (2005)
1.02MHz 65C02 CPU
Apple Monitor //c and stand
86) Apple Lisa 2/10 (2005)
5MHz MC68000 CPU
1MB RAM
10MB HD
87) Shuttle XPC i-series (2005)
3.2GHz Pentium 4 (HT)
1GB RAM
80GB SATA 7200 RPM SATA HD
eVGA GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express video
Pioneer PDP-5060 50" plasma HD display (1280x720 native)
Logitech wireless (RF) keyboard & mouse
Streamzap USB IR interface & remote
88) Apple MacBook Pro (2006)
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo CPU
2GB RAM
100GB 7200 RPM 2.5" SATA HD
89) Infrant ReadyNAS NV storage array (2006)
280MHz IT3107 CPU
Four 500GB Seagate ST3500641AS Barracuda 7200.9 SATA hard drives
X-RAID configuration yielding ~1.5TB redundant networked storage
90) Nintendo DS Lite (2006)
91) Atari Jaguar (2006)
92) Apple Mac Pro (2006)
dual 3GHz dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors (quad core)
4GB FB-DIMM RAM
WD Raptor 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA HD (16MB cache)
WD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
Seagate 250GB 7200 RPM SATA HD (8MB cache)
Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM external LaCie FireWire 800 HD (2MB cache)
ATI Radeon X1900XT 512MB video card (PCI-Express)
30" Apple Cinema Display (16:9)
20" HP LP2065 Display (4:3, rotated)
Apple iSight FireWire camera
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers
93) Sega Saturn (2007)
Action Replay cartridge
analog controller (from NiGHTS)
94) Palm V (2007)
95) Atari 520ST (2007)
dual Atari SF314 3.5" floppy drives
Atari SC1224 color RGB monitor
MicroMate A520 STation all-in-one system stand
96) AppleTV (2007)
97) Vectrex (2007)
98) Power Macintosh G3 (beige) system (2007)
99) iPhone 8GB (2007)
100) Epson PX-8 "Geneva" (2007)
101) Sony Playstation 3 (2007)
102) Samsung DVD-N501 (Nuon) (2008)
103) TRS-80 Model 4 (2008)
104) Apple iPhone 3G (16GB) (2008)
105) MacBook (late 2008) (2008)
Core 2 Duo (dual core) 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
250GB 5400-rpm drive
mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter (for office connection to 20-inch Apple Cinema Display)
Microsoft Arc Mouse
106) Apple IIe (enhanced) (2008)
Apple Color Monitor IIe
dual Apple Disk II 5.25" drives
Apple DuoDisk drives (dead)
Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card
Apple SuperDrive (3.5" floppy drive)
Korean Mockingboard A clone (sound card)
107) Apple 2G iPod touch (16GB) (2009)
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( taken March 2000 )