#PowerComputing

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[never-obsolete]

MacUser - December 1996

[mikyit]

Graphics processing unit (GPU) maker Nvidia has asked users of gaming PCs to help in the effort to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus by joining a distributed computing project. The company urged PC gamers to donate unused GPU clock cycles on their computers in a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics to help improve knowledge of the coronavirus.

[krjpalmer]

MacUser July 1997

Sporting a new design, this issue’s cover story about the impending new dispensation in data storage (and video) mentioned “the first-ever Macintosh equipped with a DVD-ROM drive, the one Apple has been hauling around the globe to show off the new storage technology’s potential.” Whether that computer was the machine on the cover echoing the Macintosh TV of a few years back wasn’t quite clear. As for the image on the black computer’s screen, a news item mentioned how the production of Xena, Warrior Princess made use of Macs. The PowerComputing ad at the front of the magazine just happened to present Jean-Louis Gássee as a “Visionary.”

[shadow27]

Digging through my old portfolio and came across a screen shot of BellAtlantic.net homepage from 1996. The entire page, code and art included, was less 124kb. Internal pages were under 64kb. I did about 40 of those little drawings a week until the Dot.Bomb in ‘97. Where it says “My Space” that’s just a section of the site. MySpace the website wouldn’t exist for another ~10 years.  I used Photoshop 4.0 (AKA Big Electric Cat) and a Wacom ArtPad (the Intuos line didn’t exist yet). I started off on an Apple Quadra 660 A/V (25 mHZ baby!), but I I upgraded to a PowerComputing Power Tower Pro 

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Device History

This is a list of devices I've had over the years. It's here for reference. There isn't much here that I haven't talked about before. I will reference this list in other articles, and I will keep it updated.

Desktop Computers

Apple II

Apple IIC

Apple IIGS - This is the apex of the Apple II series. It could have been much better if Apple would have allowed the microprocessor to work at it's base clock. It was a great system that was upgradeable. Our IIGS had an 80 Megabyte hard drive, 4 Megabytes of RAM, a graphics card upgrade, a 3.5 diskette, and 5.25 floppy disk drive.

Macintosh SE30

Performa 410 - The Family's Mac.

Macintosh Quadra 605 - My private machine.

PowerMac 8500 A/V This is the computer that hurdled me into media and graphics production.

PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 180 - The family PowerMac. While the PowerMac 8500 A/V was my private system, the  PowerTower Pro  was the family machine. It died a gruesome death when my sister's fiance decided to clean the carpets, and didn't put the tower up on the desk.

Dell Optiplex Pentium II - The family computer given to us by my uncle.

PowerMac G3 Desktop - Replaced my PowerMac 8500, and got the A/V card from my 8500 as well.

iMac (2nd Gen) - The family's Mac.

Dell Optiplex Pentium 4 - My private PC.

PowerMac G4 - Replaced the PowerMac G3 Desktop.

2006 MacPro (First Gen) 2.66 4-core - This was the Mac I used through my Masters Degree.

2009 21.5" iMac - Replaced my 2006 Mac Pro. Got dropped by a technician during repair.

2011 21.5" iMac - Replaced the 2009 iMac. I passed that along to a friend when I was finished with it.

PowerMac G5 - Given to me by a friend. Still in use for projects that need a legacy Mac system that can run Mac OS 9.

2011 27" iMac - My second design system. I sold it around the same time I passed the 21.5" iMac to a friend. I used the money to build my PC computer.

Custom Built Intel Xeon Workstation I did a ton of articles about this build on this BLOG. I am not going to reference them though.

Custom Built AMD Ryzen 9 3900X workstation - My current workstation.

Laptops

Toshiba Satellite Pro - The first laptop I used during my college career.

PowerBook 3400 / G3 Kanga - It started out as a PowerMac 3400, and I used it for a couple of years. I then paid $800 to upgrade it to a PowerBook G3 Kanga. I passed this computer on to my sister when she started college.

PowerBook G3 (Lombard) - Replaced the PowerBook G3 Kanga. It got passed on to a friend.

iBook G3 (Ice White) - This was the iBook G3 with technical issues which caused the GPU to become un-soldered. It was replaced by Apple with an iBook G4.

iBook G4 - This was a great laptop ... It was stolen from the computer lab I worked in.\

17" MacBook Pro (1st Gen) - Replaced my iBook G4.

2009 MacBook Pro

2012 MacBook Pro - This laptop is still in use for Mac only projects.

Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 - Recently retired. The pen digitizer became too glitch-y.

2017 HP Spectre X360 - My current laptop.

Game Consoles

Atari 2600 - Is there an American family from the 80's that didn't have one of these.

Nintendo Entertainment System - We purchased this and a box of games from a yard sale ... It was supposed to be broken, but the seller told me she thought it needed a new RF adapter. We already had a couple from the Atari 2600.

Nintendo GameBoy / Pocket / Micro / Color - My favorite handheld game console to this day. I had several devices and over 100 games. My favorite GameBoy in particular is the original GameBoy DMG.

Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X - My favorite game console, excluding the 32X. I only have about two dozen games. That was because our Video rental store specialized in Sega Rentals. Well at least until the Sony PlayStation was released.

Sega GameGear - It was a good game system with a decent library. It had several problems though. Poor battery life, expensive peripherals, and many of the games were overpriced.

Panasonic 3DO - A very short-lived game system. I only had 10 games. My favorite 3DO game was SNKs Samurai Shodown. It was way overpriced.

Sony PlayStation - It made sense since the local video rental place had a ton of games to rent.

Sega Dreamcast - By this time our video rental place stopped renting games for newer systems. The DreamCast was an awesome gaming system. I purchased mine from a used electronics store.

GameBoy Advance - Everything I loved about the GameBoy only with better graphics.

Nintendo GameCube - This one is simple. Metroid Prime (GameCube) + Metroid Fusion (GameBoy Advance). Other than the Metroid Prime Series I had about a dozen other games.

PlayStation 3 - Got it and a bag of games from a friend.

XBOX One S - I only have a few games for this system. I really purchased this as a replacement for an Apple TV.

SmartPhones

Nokia N80 ie - My favorite Symbian phone.

Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone 3GS - One of my favorite iPhones.

Nokia 700

Samsung Galaxy Nexus - My first Android phone.

Samsung Focus - The phone that made me hate Samsung.

Apple iPhone 5C - The phone that changed my mind about the Apple ecosystem.

Sony Xperia 5C - My favorite Android phone so far.

Sony Xperia  XZ1

OnePlus 7T - My current phone.

Tablets / PDA

Oregon Scientific AM888FL organizer

Cybiko - All of the kids in the house had one. Too bad it was obsolete before my parents purchased them at Big Lots.

Apple iPad

Apple iPad 2

Apple iPad Mini Retina - My favorite Apple iPad of all time.

Apple iPad Air 2

Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 - Recently retired. The pen digitizer became too glitch-y. Yes, this was also in the laptop list.

Asus MemoPad 7CX -  My first Android tablet, and an excellent tablet as well.

Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 - Highly regarded as one of the best Android Gaming tablets of it's time

Apple iPad (8th Generation) - the 128 GB model. You can read the review my review here.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 - My current favorite tablet of all time.

Maker Boards

Raspberry Pi 2B

Raspberry Pi 3B - Used for several learning projects. I also used it as a test board for kiosks I was designing for companies

Asus Tinkerboard (first gen) I used this for my PiHole ad blocker. It has a gigabit ethernet port where the Raspberry Pi 3B had megabit ethernet. I passed it on to a friend when the 4th gen Raspberry Pi released.

Raspberry Pi Zero W - This will be at the heart of my RetroFlag GPi case.

Raspberry Pi 4B - I have a few of these. One is a testing board for Internet projects. One is running a PiHole, and one is currently the mainboard of a retro gaming machine.

Raspberry Pi CM4 - The upgrade for my RetroFlag GPi case.

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