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Sputnik
An 8MB '386, a computer in a drill case, used mainly to prepare books for the internet and for functional programming.
Rapala
An 8MB '486-66 with two sound cards, used for sound synthesis and for four-channel sonic holography.
The "motherboard" is in fact just a row of ISA bus connectors; the main processor and RAM are on a plug-in card.
Beatnik
A 28MB '486-66, the central server of my lumpystreet web site in 2002.
Jackup
An 8MB '486-25, displaying screen savers in the front window of the house, also used as a networked X terminal.
Neko
A P133, ex Compaq Deskpro: a stand-alone web-browsing station or X terminal.
Nekon2 and Neko2
A 500MHz general-purpose computer (the bottom half) used mainly for the development of Live Linux CDs and video processing, with a separate 133MHz processor to run the window system (the top half).
Rear views of the main processor, whole unit and video processor.
The cluster
8 x 400-733MHz Pentiums, 192/256 RAM each + swap, used for distributed compilation of C and C++, video compression and clustering Live CDs..
Technical details
Latitude
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