I have a collection of computers that I accumulated over the years, most of which I have acquired when I moved to California for graduate school. Over the past few years, I have thinned it out considerably by giving most of them away through Freecycle.

My wife uses a Dell Dimension 9150 system, on which she runs Windows XP Home Service Pack 2. She does a lot of graphics work and website design. For examples of her work, please visit Blessed Blogger and Charmed Design.

I use a self-built Pentium 4 2.40GHz that runs Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I recently installed an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9800 PRO to use the OS’s PVR program, which is working well.

I have set up another system using the Athlon XP 2000+ components for the TV in the bedroom. It is also running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE Dual TV/FM card. Later on I might see how well another Windows-based MCE alternative functions, such as Media Portal, or a Linux-based MythTV setup.

The other computer I use when I am at home is a Power Macintosh Beige G3 Tower, on which I mostly run Mac OS X 10.4.11. I sometimes boot into Mac OS 9.2.2 or Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1, and rarely Windows 98 SE through Virtual PC 6.

My collection is organized by the list below.

Macs

PCs

Gadgets

Game Consoles

  • Nintendo 64
  • Nintendo DS
  • Nintendo Wii
  • Sega Dreamcast
  • Sony PlayStation
  • Sony PlayStation 2

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