Poseidon (Original)
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| poseidon | |
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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 | |
| Role: | Personal Workstation |
Historical 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.