So recently I was asked about my first computer – that was an easy to answer, but considering, what I owned and furthermore what I worked on, was/is significantly harder. I try to summarize:
- Ti 99-4A, owned as first Computer
- Apple IIc, worked on in school
- C64, owned when it became fashion
- Zenith PC – 8086, first dual floppy, then 20MB harddrive, then v20 NEC CPU upgrade and overclocking – owned
- Motorola 68000 based Sinix microcomputer. worked on at Telekom internship
- DEC VAX with VMS, worked on at Telekom internship
- ESCOM i386 PC, owned, later with Linux Slackware
- Comodore AMIGA 500, owned
- IBM RS6000, AIX 4.3, worked on at first university courses
- SUN SPARC Station IPC, SUN OS, worked on at university
- SUN SPARC Center 2000, SUN OS, worked on at university
- SGI Iris, Irix, worked on at university
- SUN E3000, Solaris, owned
- HP 9000
- HP apollo 300 series, HP-UX, worked on at university
- HP apollo 700 series, HP-UX, workes on at Hewlett-Packard and owned several models – particular loved 735, H210 and the Ravens
- HP Apollo 800 series, HP-UX, worked on, even own an A500
Including L-Class, R-Class, V-Class and Superdome
- iBook – the old white PPc based one, owned, later with yellow dog Linux
- HP RX2620 Integrity, HP-UX, owned
- HP Integrity Systems, HP-UX, worked on, Including Superdome
- Intel PC 586 – ever since
- Intel PC 686 – ever since
- Xeon based Intel Servers – ever since
- Raspberry PI, owned
- Onion 2, owned
- Pine 64, owned
So whenever I wonder where some of my strange Ideas grew on, the list does not necessarily insist to be complete …. kyp.F.