| Author | Message | ||
     Barker |
 How many of us ride "different" motorcycles and use "different" computers? I'll start: Home: 2003 XB9R 1ghz eMac Dual G5 2.0 w/23 inch 3rd gen 15 gig iPod Work: Quad 2.66 MacPro w/ dual 30 inch monitors (Message edited by barker on October 18, 2006) | ||
| Glitch |
2003XB9S Commodore 64  I have an Avalon as well, sounds much better than any ol' iPod. (Message edited by glitch on October 18, 2006) | ||
| Doon |
glitch: sweet  Work computer: 17" PowerBook + 23" cinema Display Home Computer(s); Dual Core AMD64 (FreeBSD 6.1, Solaris, Windows XP, Gentoo -- but lives mostly in FreeBSD). + 2 Other Macs (iMac DV + a Mini) 2 SGI's (02+Octane) FreeBSD file Server, openbsd firewall. So I am very different | ||
| The_new_guy |
That computer is OLDschool! Do you have a tape drive too? | ||
| New12r |
04XB12R I still use paper and pens, what exactly is a computer???  Glitch, Seriously dude welcome to the new millenium! | ||
| Spiderman |
 Inside I have a MSI motherboard with gigabit networking, 2 serial ATA ports, 2.6GHz CPU overclocked to 3.56MHz with a solid copper cooler with a fan adjustable from 1000 to 7500 RPM. Complete tep mounting; power supply,HD and CPU. 128 video card 2 HD's one 60gb and the other 80gb 1gb of DDR RAM running in a dual channel config DVD/CD rom and burner 6.1 surround sound 10 USB ports 5 Firewire Ports and some other crap. | ||
| The_new_guy |
What can you do with an old machine like that? I remember using apple II's in school. Then we got a 64 and then a 128 commadore(can't remember what it was called?). It was all pretty cool but very difficult. I really only became computer literate(sort of) with windows. | ||
| Glitch |
Nope no tape drive. The Commodore 128 was too far ahead of it's time, never got the attentoin it needed before they were gone. Old School!? My Commodore is a 64bit operating system, Micro$oft is only just beginning 64bit, the 128 is, you guessed it, a 128bit operating system. I use mine mostly for collecting dust anymore. Machine Language is it's main task I guess. I really wanted an Amiga, now there was a graphics machine...before Apple! Too bad about Commodore. WindoZe is great for games, but only because games are written for WindoZe. If you like gaming, but not WindoZe, might out to try Console Linux, I've been playing with it when I have the time, so I guess I've not played with it much lately. I've also got an Umbuntu, win2k, 2 xp machines, and a laptop with Mandrake. I wish I had as many bikes as I have puters. | ||
| Sparky |
Lifestyle slowly becoming digitalized. 3 generations of Macs networked together at home. Dell laptop at work running XP. 6500, OS9 iMac, 17" flat-screen G4, OS 10.3.9 (son's) iMac, slot-loading G3, OS 10.3.9 (mine) 1st & 3rd gen iPods (son's) 30 GB Video iPod, 5th gen (mine) Airport Express playing approx 2500 surf music instrumentals through G3's iTunes in the den to living room stereo. Mac IIVX (works) & Mac Plus (broken) stored in garage. Eventually, maybe I'll get a cell phone. Nah, I've got CB radios. LOL Thanks, Sparky | ||
| Khollister |
2007 XB12Scg 1.83 GHz MacBook (Intel Core Duo) 2.0 GHz 17" iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) wife's machine - runs XP 2 X 2.3 GHz PowerMac w. 20" Cinema Display The MacBook also boots XP for VDSTS & the SERT software for my FLHR | ||
| Greenlantern |
2007 XB12Ss 2.0 GHz iMac G5 800 MHz iMac Flat Panel iBook G3 800MHz (Work machine, only mac in a land of PeeCees. | ||
| Slaughter |
I burn through computers too rapidly - desktops are bought surplus from work and laptops from ebay or surplus from work. Laptops are in the sun, in the pits, in the dyno and they get dropped, spilled on, overheated. I use computers like shovels. I know how to dig and lay a sprinkler line or cut the head off a snake but can't tell you whether the handle is ash, oak or hickory or what the steel alloy was that was used for the blade. Computers ARE a valuable tool for me at work and at home. Abusing computing priveleges right now at work. | ||
| Jscott |
LOAD "*",8,1... I spent my entire 13th year playing "Pool of Radiance" on a Commodore 64. Good times. | ||
| Hammeroid |
Mac rules!!!! work: Dual pros. 2GHz g5 1.5 gigs memory 160 gigs storage Sony flat cinema display Home: 06 xb12Ss blue and white g3 g4 mini- loaded 23' cinema display 4g nano Epson printers all around Been on Macs since '91 and Apples since mid 80s and of course commodore 128 and 64 Wouldn't have it any other way! | ||
| Bomber |
I think I still have my Newton stashed in a closet somewhere's | ||
| Henrik |
Matt - That's an awfully fancy deck you've got sitting there ... Mac dual 2GHz G5, one with a full AVID Adrenaline. Henrik | ||
| Josh_cox |
ibook g4 here. I'm ready to upgrade any time, but I'm waiting on universal applications to be released by Adobe first. I see most of us have similar taste... who would have thought? The real question is do you wear your "homie don't right click shirt" around proudly like me? | ||
| Eboos |
I used an Amiga in high school for our video production class. Ours was pretty well funded, and we had a news studio where we did a daily program. Not bad for 1991-1993. We did our switching, graphics, titleing and editing with the Amiga. It had a very long rendering time, but there were some things that I could to with it that I still can't do with my current PC (or at least without the same level of ease). | ||
| Thespive |
Heh, I started on a VIC-20, then went to a C64 and on to an Amiga. Then to Apple, off to Dell (never to return) and back to Apple where I am happiest. PB G4 12-in (home) PB G4 15-in (work) --Sean | ||
| Prof_stack |
Radio Shack TRS-80, from '78 to '86, with 4 floppy drives, 64K total RAM (a lot back then), and BBS downloads. Epson MX80 printer. Those were the days... As a software guy I soon wrote educational stuff for the first IBM-PC and the ill-fated PC Jr. Bill Gate's software was starting the steamroll. Now I'm with the mass majority of XP users with more RAM and speed than I need (but barely enough for my son's BF2, 1/2-life, etc). | ||
| Doon |
josh_cox: Don't got a shirt like that but it is funny. Being a *nix geek and coming from X, and spending way too much time in terminals and shells I need at least 3 buttons. (although the right would be my least used), but the select with left paste with middle combo gets abused daily.. | ||
| Oldguycityx |
Wow, that C64 brought back some memories. My C64 with a 300 baud modem connecting to a local bulletin board where the sysop had 7 PCs linked together and you could access them over the phone!!!! Good times. Now in the corporate world with XP machines at work and home. Hoping to fool with Macs after I retire. Sounds like this group has some definite preferences.  | ||
| Glitch |
Anyone here ever used Q-Link? We had a life time membership be fore they got bought out by AOL. Q-Link was an awesome BBS. I was a Sysop back home. We didn't have internet access until the early 90's because from where I was, everywhere was long distance. I was running Wildcat! and had it running "e-mail" a message board, and lets not forget Door Games!  | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
15" 2ghz Mac Book Pro Only upgrade thus far has been adding 1 gig of ram. This is my first Mac and my first thought on OSX was "Man...This makes waaay more sense" Sure is one expensive computer just to look at porn with  | ||
| Barker |
Henrik, The deck is a BetaSX editing deck. AVID on a MAC?!?!?! Where's Final Cut? | ||
| Oldguycityx |
Yep, Glitch I was a Q-Linker too. Boy, we must be old. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Nothing fancy for a conservative ol' fart like moi.  Just a Water Cooled, Dual 2.5 Mac G5 , with a couple of Sony Artisan 23"monitors and a Epson 9800 44" wide printer.  The motorcycle is air cooled. Do I have this backward? And NO!. I never do take off my Arai Signet! "Better safe than sorry", my dad always said. | ||
| Glitch |
Boy, we must be old. I prefer experienced.  Gentleman_Jon, I love that picture! Can't wait to see the bike! | ||
| Sarodude |
Vic 20, C64, Various Amigas..... At some point I gave up on the Commodore thing. Great computers but idiotic marketing. How on Earth can something as GRAND as the original Amiga 1000 go SO unnoticed? Astounding. I'm just a PC Clone guy now. Just tools - no more passion for the home PC. Got enough insantiy to deal with trying to de-fragment a large-ish medium sized IT shop. Slow progress. -Saro | ||
| Henrik |
The deck is a BetaSX editing dec Digi Beta? AVID on a MAC?!?!?! Yeah, currently not the ideal combination, I realize but perfectly workable for my use. Mostly documentary/educational surgical video. But I've been editing on AVID since 1992 when we first got a Media Suite Pro system and have tons of finished programs that I just can't/won't convert. I'm running FCP - the full suite - on my other G5, but use it mostly for quick and dirty (no, not that kind ) work. Shot everything on Betacam up until 4 years ago but have now been converted by the ease of integration of DV-CAM - even if the picture quality is a step back - can't have it all I guess. Started my Mac career on an SE with 2MB of RAM and 40 MB harddisk - that thing was *kickin'* at the time. Now cellular phones with less than double that memory are considered outdated ... odd ...  Henrik (Message edited by Henrik on October 19, 2006) |
