Smith's Computers
The SPARCclassic is at the left, vertical on top of the brown file cabinet.
The SPARCstation-5 is on the right. The SS5 is Joe's work machine, it caused
the SPARCstation-SLC to be banished to the closet.
This is our internet gateway. It has:
- 2 gigabyte SCSI disk (DEC DSP5200)
- Actual size is 1,953,210 * 1024 = 2,000,087,040 bytes
- Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (2.3 GB)
- Sun CD-ROM (double speed)
- US Robotics Sportster 14.4 Fax modem at 19200 bps
- running SunOS-4.1.4 and ppp-2.1.2
- Black and white monitor (1152 x 900 x 2 colors)
- 16 megabytes RAM (came with 8, added 2nd 8 meg on 29-Jul-95)
- 1 gigabyte external SCSI disk (Conner CFP1060S, 1.05 GB)
- running Solaris-2.5
The Amiga 3000 is at left, the laser printer at right. The Amiga 1200 is
kept in the closet until it is time to put a custom leader at the beginning
of Joe's Babylon-5 tapes.
Joe's first color computer was an Amiga-2000. He became Certified Developer,
then got a discount when purchasing the Amiga-3000 from Commodore Amiga
Technical Support (CATS). He is still hoping that the Amiga technology will be
available after Commodore's bankrupcy sale is finally settled.
The A3000 has:
- MC68030 at 16 MHz
- Enhanced Chip Set (640x480x16 or 1280x480x4)
- 2 meg graphics ("chip") RAM
- 4 meg other ("fast") RAM
- 2nd floppy (880Kb)
- 40 meg SCSI disk (original equipment)
- 730 meg SCSI disk (add-on)
- Floptical drive, which reads and writes:
- 3.5-inch 1.44Mb floppies
- 3.5-inch 20Mb optically aligned magnetic disks
- HP DeskJet 500 printer
- Xerox-4020 color inkjet printer
- Commodore 1950 (multisync) monitor
- running AmigaDOS-3.1 and/or AmigaDOS-1.3
This was purchased for Sally for the production of Rocky and Bullwinkle
at the Ohlone College. At least, that was Joe's original justification
for it. But he really wanted the pretty colors.
- MC68EC020 at 14 MHz
- AGA chip set, 256 colors out of 16.8 million
- 80 meg IDE drive
- PCMCIA slot
- 2 meg graphics ("chip") RAM
- 4 meg other ("fast") RAM
- FPU and clock chip
- running AmigaDOS-3.0
- no monitor, uses either
- NewTek DigiView (slow-scan digitizer)
- Perfect Sound audio digitizer
Other computers
See also John's computers and our
list of old junk.
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The Amiga 3000 is at left, the laser printer at right. The Amiga 1200 is
kept in the closet until it is time to put a custom leader at the beginning
of Joe's Babylon-5 tapes.