Continuously Under Construction Continuously Under Construction2001-As if 1998 is up to date, All computers in the house have been replaced at least once. Dave has a PII 400 with 64Meg and 10G drive 48x CDR and R/W CD, Dawn has a PII 350 with 64Meg 13 G drive, I have two 300's and a 450 over 384Meg and 15G drive with DVD and R/W CD, Nick has a K6-300. All on most of the time and cranking seti@home packets over 1560 so far (over 17000 CPU hrs) and in the top 2% of all users. All computers are considered obsolete and need upgrading.
1998-All computers are up to date (never really possible). An NT machine P5-133 w 32Meg and 2 drives totaling 2 Gig, Three machies with 200MHZ MMX, Minimum of 32Meg, 2.0Gig drives, Davey has a P5166 at school with HP820CSE. Home Printer is an HP890CSE, Two zip drives at home, a Visioneer OneTouch Scanner, combo serves also as FAX and Color Copier and a connetix VC cam. And a huge pile of spare parts. Also note the failure of WD 3.1G drive that was a replacement for the WD 1.6G drive. Oh yea, we now sport Win98 on all machines except Davey's.
January 1997-Replaced failing 1.6G in P5-133 with 3.1G. Upgraded Win95 to Win95B.
December 1996 - Completed File server upgrade 486-66 EISA Motherboard,32MB of 30 pin SIMM, BW VGA monitor and cheap VGA card. Novell 4.1 SCSI DRIVES INCLUDE 1Gig Data, 0.5Gig SYS, 1.0Gig Data Drive, External CDROM. The New Server is plenty fast compared with the 386-25.
1995 - Upgraded to Novell 4.1, and Win95 on 386-25,11MB,1G SCSI,1xCD SCSI, pulled out long since used ARCNET NIC. Home network includes Two 486-DX2-66,8MB,540HD,2xCD; One 486-DX4-100,12MB,1.6G,5xCD; One P5-133, 32MB,1.6G,8xCD; and Neighbors P5-90 Workstations.
1993 - Trenched a 3/4 inch conduit to neighbor's house, pulled THIN-ETHERNET cable and telephone wire for intercom, and added neighbor's GW2000 P5-90 to personal network. Added ETERNET CONCENTRATOR for 10Base-T support. Fried a total of 7 ETHERNET cards connected on THIN-ETHERNET during severe electrical storms.
1988 - Upgraded network to combination of ARCNET LAN and THIN-ETHERNET LAN
1986 - Frustrated with pure peer to peer switched to a combination with a Novell 2.2 80286-12 file server, 11MB ram
1985 - First IBM PC, a 286-12, Toyed with peer to peer LANs in home KANNET, TOYONET, DUONET, LANTASTIC. Used ARCNET on 75 ohm terminated TV wire.
1978 - Sold IMSAI, which I liked alot, to Saul K. Started over with Ithica Intersystems Z80, Hazeltine 1500 terminal, Centronics 501 printer, Digitronics paper tape reader, Northstar 5 1/4 inch floppy disk (70K).
1977-1978 Built my first keyboard using SWTP keyboard assembly, converted 12 inch BW-TV into monitor. Used 1KB Video RAM for terminal. Built a 110 baud modem kit with accoustic coupling. Interfaced used IO-Selectric for printer.
Oct 16, 1976 Married Gail Lynn Borgert who else could read me the hand assembled hex code that I toggled into the IMSAI through the front pannel switches.
- 1976 - Purchased first home computer - IMSAI 8080 with 4k byte memory. Kept on expanding memory with relatively expensive memory board kits.
- 1975 - Built my first computer from an Intel 4040 development kit about $100. Etched computer board in kitchen sink, used radio shack pcb etch kit. Lots of switches on front panel allowed entering address and data. Hand wired 3k bytes of memory on single 4.5 x 6 inch board (a nightmare) with 44 pin edge connector. The next memory board was 1k bytes with battery back up.
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