Welcome to Ed and Beth's Computers: Fermi, AUSPC210,
Mycroft, Watson, Moriarty, and Lestrade!
"If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair,
Mycroft would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived."
- Sherlock Holmes
Friends frequently ask me about our computers, so I thought I'd dedicate
at least one small page to them. All of them. All six. (OK, one of them
is technically Beth's, but I'm the IT guy in our household, and you
know how we get possessive about our systems.)
Computers and My Life
As an IT Manager, I'm constantly working
with high-end systems and a variety of leading-edge software.
Since I love my job, I guess it's no surprise that I love computers too.
Unix Computing at Work:
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My Office Workstation "Fermi"
(serious Unix Horsepower for
*REAL* IT work!)
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Hardware Specification:
- HP C3000 Unix Workstation
- Visualize-FXe Graphics Subsystem
- HP 120 MHz Bus with 2 GB fast SDRAM
- 2 x 9 GByte Seagate Ultra3 SCSI disks
- 100 Base T Full-duplex Switched Ethernet
- Toshiba 32X SCSI CD-ROM
- Sony SDT 2-4 GByte DDS-2 tape drive
- HP/Sony P1120 21" Flat CRT Monitor
- CD-Quality Onboard Audio Hardware
- HP 3757B Keyboard
- HP A2839B 3-Button Mouse
Software Installed (all completely licensed, of course!):
- HP-UX 11.00 (Primary O/S)
- HP C/C++ Motif Dev. Kit
- CDE 1.2 X-Window (X11R6.1)
Windows Computing at Work:
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My Windows Desktop AUSPC210
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Hardware Specification:
- Bantam Desktop Case
- Intel P4 2.4 GHz
- 512 MB RAM
- 21 inch HP flat CRT display
- 8x DVD/CDROM
- Floppy Drive
- 40 GB hard drive
Software Specification (all painstakingly licensed):
My Windows PC "Watson"
Beth's System "Lestrade"