A computer I cut my teeth on as a kid. I spent many hours drawing pictures and playing games like Load Runner and Dungeons of Doom. This computer also started my life long addiction to Solitaire via "Klondike".

This is one of the very few computers I have kept over the years. Image to come.

I had asked for a computer capable of displaying color, and this is what I got one Christmas. This was one of my favorite computers over the years. Has a fast 68040 Motorola processor on it, as well as more than forty megabytes of RAM. It also had an internal CD-Rom drive, and a 28.8 modem plugged into it.

Not only did I spend hours playing Marathon with this computer, but it was my first introduction to the internet. I remember downloading Marathon maps, chatting on IRC with Shadow IRC, and surfing the web just as it was becoming commercial.

This was also the start of my geekyness. I recall surfing gopherspace, telneting and playing around with MUDes and MASHes, and FTPing files and programs. I didn't know it at the time, but this was my first brush with Unix. I remember installing an application called MINIX, not knowing what it was. To me it looked like the terminals I used when telneting, but this didn't give me any kind of text menu or help page.

This machine would play another role in my learning about computers later in life. This was the machine that introduced me to the BSDes. I was a Linux user at the time, but I never really started getting deep into it until I installed and configured NetBSD on this box.

This picture is actually a newer one, when I was trying to sell it. Eventually I just gave it, as well as must of the computers here, to goodwill. They probably just recycled them. Oh well, we cannot live in the past.

This was my first PowerMac. This machine is not really notable, except that it was an all-in-one and had a built in TV Tuner(unusual at the time!). Played a lot of Marathon, Bolo, and Avara on this one.

This is the first picture I have from when I began documenting the computer systems I have owned. Seen here with a with a Quick-Cam, and probably a couple of Syquest disk drives.

This computer was a workhorse. My dad's old work computer, this machine had 448 MB of RAM, and it had been upgraded with a 300 MHz G3 processor. Also had two internal hard drives; a one gig and a four gig hard drive.

With this machine, I delved into computers. First with an early version of Mac OS X, installed with a program called Xpostfacto. Then when I got to like the Unix command line, but didn't like OS Xes slowness(on my unsupported hardware), I installed Yellow Dog Linux. I also started programming at around this time.

I got this machine at a used computer store when I was in college. I got it because it was loud and mean looking. I ran FreeBSD on it, and would log onto it from school to upload and download things from it, as well as play "robots" and "tetris" during computer class.

I purchased this powerbook off of eBay back in college. I had no real use for it, it was just a cool machine I got cheap. This was the first color powerbook, after all.

Another purchase in college. I installed NetBSD on this one, and used it as a low power server. All I really recall about it was its hostname, "pizza".

Now this is a neat machine. I dont know where it came from. I just noticed it in my parents basement one day. There was like a "scene" around these machines for a while. The motherboard would slide out the back and you could slide in another board from another couple of macs. I had two additional boards. One with a M68LC040 in it, that the closure didnt fit on. And another with a '030, but with a section for a math co-processor. I went with the latter, as you could close the back with it on. Also, the math co-processor allowed NetBSD to run on this box, which I did. What a neat little UNIX box!

My original iMac. Got it when I got my first job as a programmer. Thought it was a great machine until it died out of warranty. Some sort of wiring problem. Apple originally wanted to fix it for a few hundred dollars. Later they replaced if for free, and said the wiring done on the dead machine was "below their standards". Apple can be a pretty good company sometimes.

The EEE PC was a kind of computer I had been waiting for. Small, cheap, and running GNU/Linux. I bought one as soon as they came out. Little did I know that these computers would almost take over laptops for a few years. When my original iMac died out of warranty, I used this is my primary machine for about a month(that is, plugged into a keyboard and monitor...). Im still a fan of this formfactor. Its not for everyone, but I think most people would be better off with this type of computer as their mobile machine. This machine is currently running Android 4. With Android, this is a very usable machine.

This was probably my longest running machine. Purchased when my original iMac died, I ran it as a server for a while. When I sold my second iMac, this machine became my primary computer. I just recently replaced it with a Thinkpad x130e.

The machine that Apple replaced my iMac with. A very nice computer. I ended up selling it a year or three ago.

A small, ruggedized netbook like machine that has fairly good specs for a machine this size. Has an i3 with 8 GB of RAM and a 120 GB SSD. This has replaced my desktop.