Poseidon (Original) - Revision history

Jpw: /* Martinez Era */

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Martinez Era

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	== Martinez Era ==		== Martinez Era ==
	Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order.		Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order.

			During this period, a 233MHz Pentium CPU was installed in the machine, which came from Dr. Martinez' old PC. The system recognized it as a 166MHz CPU, presumably also clocking it accordingly. I believe this may have contributed to the system's subsequent decline in stability.

	== Trailer Era ==		== Trailer Era ==

Jpw at 17:43, 12 April 2019

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	== Usage After Home ==		== Usage After Home ==
	After moving in with [[Joel Martinez]] at his parents' home, this machine had WinRoute Lite (and later WinRoute Pro) installed under WinNT 4 in order to share its dialup Internet connection, after we ran Ethernet cabling throughout the house. During this time, the modem in use was a USRobotics 56K modem that was ultimately fried in an electrical storm.		After moving in with [[:User:Soundstains\|Joel Martinez]] at his parents' home, this machine had WinRoute Lite (and later WinRoute Pro) installed under WinNT 4 in order to share its dialup Internet connection, after we ran Ethernet cabling throughout the house. During this time, the modem in use was a USRobotics 56K modem that was ultimately fried in an electrical storm.

	It was during this time that Joel and I decided on the naming scheme of Greek mythological figures, and the machine was renamed from picasso to poseidon.		It was during this time that Joel and I decided on the naming scheme of Greek mythological figures, and the machine was renamed from picasso to poseidon.

Jpw: /* Win98 Upgrade */

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Win98 Upgrade

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	* If Linux was selected, the LILO boot loader would then appear		* If Linux was selected, the LILO boot loader would then appear

	== ~~Win98~~ Upgrade ==		== Windows 98 Upgrade ==
	The Windows 95 preload (still in dual-boot mode with OS/2 Warp v3) was upgraded to Windows 98. The rest of the multiboot configuration remained intact.		The Windows 95 preload (still in dual-boot mode with OS/2 Warp v3) was upgraded to Windows 98. The rest of the multiboot configuration remained intact.

Jpw: /* Usage After Home */

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Usage After Home

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	== Usage After Home ==		== Usage After Home ==
	After moving in with Joel Martinez at his parents' home, this machine had WinRoute Lite (and later WinRoute Pro) installed under WinNT 4 in order to share its dialup Internet connection, after we ran Ethernet cabling throughout the house. During this time, the modem in use was a USRobotics 56K modem that was ultimately fried in an electrical storm.		After moving in with [[Joel Martinez]] at his parents' home, this machine had WinRoute Lite (and later WinRoute Pro) installed under WinNT 4 in order to share its dialup Internet connection, after we ran Ethernet cabling throughout the house. During this time, the modem in use was a USRobotics 56K modem that was ultimately fried in an electrical storm.

	It was during this time that Joel and I decided on the naming scheme of Greek mythological figures, and the machine was renamed from picasso to poseidon.		It was during this time that Joel and I decided on the naming scheme of Greek mythological figures, and the machine was renamed from picasso to poseidon.

Jpw: /* Usage At Home */

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Usage At Home

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	Netscape Navigator 2.02 was my web browser of choice under OS/2. It came in a PKZip archive named N32E202.ZIP, the floppy disk for which I still have.		Netscape Navigator 2.02 was my web browser of choice under OS/2. It came in a PKZip archive named N32E202.ZIP, the floppy disk for which I still have.

			At one time, [[James Lines]] used Netscape on OS/2 on this machine after a youth group meeting to check his e-mail.

	I had a series of XCOPY scripts that would back up source code and documents to the ZIP drive. I still have these ZIP disks, and their contents are archived.		I had a series of XCOPY scripts that would back up source code and documents to the ZIP drive. I still have these ZIP disks, and their contents are archived.

Jpw: /* Joel Martinez Era */

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Joel Martinez Era

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	In 2000, it was supplanted by [[zeus]], my Power Mac G4, in its role as personal workstation, but continued for some time to function as an Internet router.		In 2000, it was supplanted by [[zeus]], my Power Mac G4, in its role as personal workstation, but continued for some time to function as an Internet router.

	== ~~Joel~~ Martinez Era ==		== Martinez Era ==
	Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order.		Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order.

Jpw at 15:21, 12 April 2019

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	== Original Purchase ==		== Original Purchase ==
	This machine was purchased from Radio Shack in 1996. The salesman, Dominic, convinced my dad and me to buy two identical machines, configured with ~~24MB~~ of RAM, a 1GB HDD, and Windows 95 preloaded. Dominic, the salesman, now works at Best Buy.		This machine was purchased from Radio Shack in 1996. The salesman, Dominic, convinced my dad and me to buy two identical machines, configured with 8MB of RAM, a 1GB HDD, and Windows 95 preloaded. Dominic, the salesman, now works at Best Buy.

	== HDD Upgrade ==		== HDD Upgrade ==

Jpw at 15:12, 12 April 2019

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	* picasso (at home)		* picasso (at home)
	* poseidon		* poseidon


			[[Category:Storage Unit Tragedy of 2004]]

Jpw at 15:11, 12 April 2019

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	{{Infobox System		{{Infobox System
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	* Intel EtherExpress 16 Ethernet Adapter		* Intel EtherExpress 16 Ethernet Adapter

	== ~~Historical Summary~~ ==		== Original Purchase ==
			This machine was purchased from Radio Shack in 1996. The salesman, Dominic, convinced my dad and me to buy two identical machines, configured with 24MB of RAM, a 1GB HDD, and Windows 95 preloaded. Dominic, the salesman, now works at Best Buy.

			== HDD Upgrade ==
			A 2GB Maxtor hard drive, purchased from Sams Club on Mesa St. in El Paso, TX, was added to the machine at one point. Slackware was loaded on this hard drive with the assistance of [[Larry Landis]].

			== OS/2 Warp v3 Installation ==
			OS/2 Warp v3 was installed in dual-boot mode on top of Windows 95. In this configuration, the machine had a very strange boot-up arrangement:

			* The OS/2 Boot Manager would come up first
			* You could select from OS/2 and Win95 (depending on the current OS/2 dual-boot configuration), or Linux
			* If Linux was selected, the LILO boot loader would then appear

			== Win98 Upgrade ==
			The Windows 95 preload (still in dual-boot mode with OS/2 Warp v3) was upgraded to Windows 98. The rest of the multiboot configuration remained intact.

			== Usage At Home ==
			I used IBM Works, an OS/2-native productivity software bundle included in the OS/2 Warp v3 Bonus Pak, to write all my school papers at MVCS. Internet access came by way of the InJoy Internet Dialer, as the IBM dialer for non-IBM ISPs only supported SLIP (no Van Jacobsen CSLIP or PPP), and my ISP (NMSU-Net) required an interactive (terminal-based) component in order to launch either a SLIP or PPP connection, which the IBM dialer also did not support. InJoy was a shareware product downloaded from the [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu Hobbes OS/2 Archive], and provided full SLIP/CSLIP/PPP and interactive login support, among many other features.

			Netscape Navigator 2.02 was my web browser of choice under OS/2. It came in a PKZip archive named N32E202.ZIP, the floppy disk for which I still have.

			I had a series of XCOPY scripts that would back up source code and documents to the ZIP drive. I still have these ZIP disks, and their contents are archived.

			== Upgrade to Windows NT Workstation 4.0 ==
			At some point, I reworked the system to have Windows NT Workstation 4.0. I do not recall if I employed a multiboot scenario in this setup, but I doubt it.

			== Usage After Home ==
			After moving in with Joel Martinez at his parents' home, this machine had WinRoute Lite (and later WinRoute Pro) installed under WinNT 4 in order to share its dialup Internet connection, after we ran Ethernet cabling throughout the house. During this time, the modem in use was a USRobotics 56K modem that was ultimately fried in an electrical storm.

	~~''This section~~ was ~~taken from my old personal website, which is archived at~~ and ~~accessible from [http://www.chivanet.org/~jpw/vax/computer.html The VAX Pirate's Lair]. As such,~~ the ~~contents are likely out~~ of ~~date~~ and ~~not particularly reliable~~.''		It was during this time that Joel and I decided on the naming scheme of Greek mythological figures, and the machine was renamed from picasso to poseidon.

	~~This computer was my main machine for a long time. I acquired it in 1996 on sale at Radio Shack. IBM had recently discontinued the series~~, ~~and~~ it ~~came stock with 8MB RAM~~, ~~a 1GB hard drive~~, ~~and 0K CPU cache. Also a 133MHz Pentium processor. I had been using a 90MHz homebuilt Pentium machine with 256K cache. I learned very quickly that cache RAM can make all the difference~~ in ~~performance, and the P90 was faster. Unfortunately, I never got around to upgrading the cache RAM in this box, and I seriously doubt the memory is available anymore. At some point~~, for some ~~long-since forgotten reason, the original CPU was replaced with a Pentium 233, which the BIOS recognizes~~ as ~~a Pentium 166~~.		In 2000, it was supplanted by [[zeus]], my Power Mac G4, in its role as personal workstation, but continued for some time to function as an Internet router.

	== Joel Martinez Era ==		== Joel Martinez Era ==
			Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order.

	~~Joel Martinez used this~~ machine as an ~~mp3 player running~~ OS/2 Warp ~~v4 for~~ a ~~period of time~~. ~~During this era~~, ~~the machine~~'s ~~power supply failed dramatically~~, ~~shooting flames~~ out ~~the back~~ of ~~the~~ machine. ~~A new power supply was ordered~~ at ~~great expense from~~ IBM~~'s labyrinthine website~~, and it was ~~restored~~ to ~~working order~~. ~~During my residence at~~ the ~~trailer~~, the ~~machine became increasingly unreliable~~		== Trailer Era ==
			This machine sat to the left of [[zeus]], my Power Mac G4, as an OS/2 Warp Connect v3 machine, but in this time period, it declined in reliability, to the point where it would take many attempts to achieve a successful boot.

			== Historical Summary ==
			''This section was taken from my old personal website, which is archived at and accessible from [http://www.chivanet.org/~jpw/vax/computer.html The VAX Pirate's Lair]. As such, the contents are likely out of date and not particularly reliable.''

			This computer was my main machine for a long time. I acquired it in 1996 on sale at Radio Shack. IBM had recently discontinued the series, and it came stock with 8MB RAM, a 1GB hard drive, and 0K CPU cache. Also a 133MHz Pentium processor. I had been using a 90MHz homebuilt Pentium machine with 256K cache. I learned very quickly that cache RAM can make all the difference in performance, and the P90 was faster. Unfortunately, I never got around to upgrading the cache RAM in this box, and I seriously doubt the memory is available anymore. At some point, for some long-since forgotten reason, the original CPU was replaced with a Pentium 233, which the BIOS recognizes as a Pentium 166.

	== Naming History ==		== Naming History ==
			* picasso (at home)
	* picasso
	* poseidon		* poseidon

Jpw at 14:49, 12 April 2019

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	\| role = Personal Workstation		\| role = Personal Workstation
	}}		}}

			== Specifications ==

			* IBM Aptiva 2144-A12
			* Intel Pentium 233MHz (running at 166MHz due to system BIOS limitations)
			* 48MB EDO DRAM
			* 121MB IDE disk drive
			* 4X Mitsumi CD-ROM drive
			* Trident TGUI-9680 video chipset w/1MB VRAM
			* Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI host adapter
			* Iomega ZIP-100 external SCSI drive
			* Archive 11250-NP external parallel QIC80 tape backup (DC2120)
			* IBM mWave DSP sound card/28.8kbps modem
			* IBM OS/2 Warp Connect V3
			* Intel EtherExpress 16 Ethernet Adapter

	== Historical Summary ==		== Historical Summary ==

	''~~Taken~~ from my old personal website, [http://www.chivanet.org/~jpw/vax/computer.html The VAX Pirate's Lair]''		''This section was taken from my old personal website, which is archived at and accessible from [http://www.chivanet.org/~jpw/vax/computer.html The VAX Pirate's Lair]. As such, the contents are likely out of date and not particularly reliable.''

			This computer was my main machine for a long time. I acquired it in 1996 on sale at Radio Shack. IBM had recently discontinued the series, and it came stock with 8MB RAM, a 1GB hard drive, and 0K CPU cache. Also a 133MHz Pentium processor. I had been using a 90MHz homebuilt Pentium machine with 256K cache. I learned very quickly that cache RAM can make all the difference in performance, and the P90 was faster. Unfortunately, I never got around to upgrading the cache RAM in this box, and I seriously doubt the memory is available anymore. At some point, for some long-since forgotten reason, the original CPU was replaced with a Pentium 233, which the BIOS recognizes as a Pentium 166.

			== Joel Martinez Era ==

	~~This computer was my main~~ machine for a ~~long~~ time. ~~I acquired it in 1996 on sale at Radio Shack. IBM had recently discontinued~~ the ~~series~~, ~~and it came stock with 8MB RAM, a 1GB hard drive, and 0K CPU cache. Also a 133MHz Pentium processor. I had been u sing a 90MHz homebuilt Pentium~~ machine ~~with 256K cache~~. ~~I learned very quickly that cache RAM can make all the difference in performance~~, and ~~the P90~~ was ~~faster. Unfortunately, I never got around~~ to ~~upgrading the cache RAM in this box, and I seriously doubt the memory is available anymore~~. ~~At some point, for some long-since forgotten reason,~~ the ~~original CPU was replaced with a Pentium 233~~, ~~which~~ the ~~BIOS recognizes as a Pentium 166.~~		Joel Martinez used this machine as an mp3 player running OS/2 Warp v4 for a period of time. During this era, the machine's power supply failed dramatically, shooting flames out the back of the machine. A new power supply was ordered at great expense from IBM's labyrinthine website, and it was restored to working order. During my residence at the trailer, the machine became increasingly unreliable

	== Naming History ==		== Naming History ==