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IBM Aptiva 2144
Hardware
Vendor:IBM
Model:Aptiva 2144-A12
CPU:Pentium P5@166MHz
Bus:PCI, ISA
RAM:48MB EDO
Software
OS:OS/2 Warp Connect v3
Collection Data
Acquired:1996
From:Radio Shack N. Main
Paid:$1699
Relinquished:2004
Relinquished to:Storage Unit
Catalog Data
Location:Location Unknown
Usage Info


Summary

Taken from [1]

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.