Computers
Good old times ...
The first computer I fooled around with was a Commodore VIC-20. Later, I moved on to a Commodore 64, and also worked on various home and office computers, some with as much as 32 KB memory.
My first PC was an IBM PS/2 Modell 80, with a 386 running at an amazing clock speed of 16 MHz and featuring a large 70 MB hard disk, split into three logical partitions.
This was probably at that time when Mr. Gates said 640 K ought to be enough for everyone.
What about now?
At the office and on the road, I mostly use my Thinkpad T41, a nice lightweight laptop with a bright high resolution screen, Bluetooth and wireless connectivity and a large hard drive that hasn't filled up yet. Lotus Notes 7 gives me the flexibility to have all documents I need with me, no matter where I am travelling.
At home my current collection of computers includes
- a Dell Dimension 9200 which finally works after I decided to change the useless RAID configuration the computer shipped with and reinstalled Windows XP,
- a no-name Pentium 166 with just 64 MB ECC memory, two IBM SCSI hard disk drives and a CD-ROM drive, running OS/2 Warp 4 and still doing fine, and
- an IBM Thinkpad 360C, a TFT colour laptop running OS/2 Warp 3 (quite nice a fax machine :-)), and
connected with
- a Netgear Wireless firewall/router and a Zyxel Prestige 600 DSL router
- a US Robotics Sportster Flash 56K modem
- a Konica Minolta magicolor 2350 laser printer
- an HP-1599 DAT streamer,
- an Nikon Coolscan 5000 film scanner,
- an Epson 4990 photo scanner.
Future plans
More desk space :-)
Related links
For more information about the manufacturers and their products, visit the following web sites:
- IBM for information about personal computers, hard disks, screens, printers and the OS/2 operating system
- IBM Lotus software for information about Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino servers, Lotus SmartSuite and other software products
- Nikon for information about digital cameras and film scanners
- Epson for information about scanners
- Hewlett Packard for information about streamers
- Konica Minolta for information about color printers
- Adaptec for information about SCSI host adapters
- Creative Labs for information about soundcards
- Intel for information about chips
- Zyxel for information about modems and ISDN routers
- 3com for information about modems and 56K technology
- Silicon Graphics for information about workstations