New Computer
Jan. 3rd, 2003 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonThe new computer has been up and running at least since New Year's Day. I've got Windows and Office XP working on it. Windows XP is registered. Office XP is counting down from 50. Outlook is working, ditto on FrontPage and Word. I've not felt the speed much yet, but then I've not done too much on it other than install software and download updates.
My first computer, a Kaypro II had 64 K of memory. (I've still got it in a closet although it no longer works.) This computer's IDE RAID controller has 256 Meg of cache memory. I've got something like 628 meg on the motherboard.
My first computer had no hard drives. It ran on two 400 K floppies. This computer has four 120 Gig hard drives, three of which are in a RAID 5 array. (I could not get the computer to load the Promise RAID controller drivers so I could put all four drives in the array.)
My first computer had a a Z-80 at 2.0 MHz. My new computer has two Intel PIII 1 GHz chips. (OK, so it's far from the bleeding edge...)
My first computer's operating system was CP/M. Then I went over to the dark side and have remained.
My first computer, a Kaypro II had 64 K of memory. (I've still got it in a closet although it no longer works.) This computer's IDE RAID controller has 256 Meg of cache memory. I've got something like 628 meg on the motherboard.
My first computer had no hard drives. It ran on two 400 K floppies. This computer has four 120 Gig hard drives, three of which are in a RAID 5 array. (I could not get the computer to load the Promise RAID controller drivers so I could put all four drives in the array.)
My first computer had a a Z-80 at 2.0 MHz. My new computer has two Intel PIII 1 GHz chips. (OK, so it's far from the bleeding edge...)
My first computer's operating system was CP/M. Then I went over to the dark side and have remained.
