Saturday, May 15, 2004

Fanfic Updates I've started adding revision pages to my fics. Things I plan on changing when I revise them. Things I've noticed or others have noticed. So far only "China Blonde" and "The Two" have them. (They've gotten the most detailed feedback of my fics so far) 9:07:46 PM    Notes [] Computers I have known/owned I just got a replacement Thinkpad for work. My tired, old, 700MHz A20m is being replaced by a 1.5GHz T20 (Someone else upgraded and this one filtered down to me). I'm sitting here 'watching' as all the important files are copied from the old one to the new one. Not a lot of stuff, around 5GB of work and misc. related files. But the new one has 4 times the disk space so that isn't a big deal. I've been thinking about the computers I've owned/used in the 20 years since I bought my first one: An Atari 600XL (an 8bit computer (6502 cpu) with 16K of RAM that i added more memory to ( 48K to get to the maximum of 64K) and a floppy (no hard drive - they were a bit expensive back then for personal computers) That was replaced by a series of Atari ST's (16+bit 68000 CPU) (Slightly faster than the Macs of that era and a lot cheaper ( 1/10 of the cost of an equivalent Mac)) after the 600XL didn't survive a close encounter with lightening. I don't remember why but my next computer was a PC. A 80486. Windows 3.1. NetBSD and then Linux when it became stable enough (this was early 90's) I've still got the monitor but the computer itself was junked long ago. The pieces are still around somewhere. That was the last/only PC I've ever purchased. I use them for work but my personal machines have been Macintosh somethings since. My first PDA (still have it) was the original Newton Messagepad. It still works. My first laptop wa an early generation Apple PowerPC Powerbook, a 5300cs. Very fragile case. Bad power connector. But it still worked with a little care. At my first job I had a DEC pc (486+ 32Mb) with a nice 17" monitor (A VRC16). It ran Winwos NT 3.5 while I had it. But it was mostly used as a dumb terminal replacement (With WRQ's Reflection terminal emulation software) so I could access the real machines in the office - a small VMS cluster. When I started working for 'The Company' in 1996, I still used my powerbook w/VirtualPC and Windows 95 but I also had an NEC Pentium (75MHz) that actually ran Windows NT Server for quite a while. When I moved to a home office and started travelling for the company, I managed to get my hands on another Powerbook, an early G3. (We had a Mac software product at the time and I convinced someone that I could use a Mac.). I still "have" it (Or more accurately my boss borrowed it a few months ago and I might get it back someday.) but it was officially retired when 'The Company' merged with a few others and the corporate standard became Thinkpads (And we no longer had a Macintosh product. That division was sold to the people who worked in it.) I've had my A20m since. I kept it when I moved from consulting to Development. Several years ago I bought an iBook (Mac OS X) for a personal machine. And my pda is now a Sharp Zarus 5500SL (Running a version of Linux). At this point, every computer I have could run Linux or some Unix variant (not that they do -- My Alpha & VAX run VMS, my Thinkpad Windows XP. My PS2 could run Linux but why?) 8:50:33 AM    Notes []

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