First post, by Anonymous Freak
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Alright, found this site through a search, and it looks great to me, so I suppose I'd better introduce myself.
I'm "Anonymous Freak", the same name on many other forums (including Slashdot, MacRumors, 68kmla, VCForums, and a few more.) I'm a long-time geek, dating back to when my dad bought an IBM PC clone in 1986, and using Apple IIs in elementary school back in 1981.
I've always been a "hacker" (in the true sense,) doing upgrades myself to our PC clone, combined with having multiple computers in the house early. (By high school, we had the clone (A Leading Edge Model 'D',) an IBM PC/XT, a Compaq Portable II (PC/XT equivalent in "luggable" form,) a PS/2 model 30-286 (that I upgraded to a 386 with an expensive CPU upgrade that was custom just for that model,) a PS/2 P70 386 "Luggable", and a clone 486/66. (Only the original clone and the 486 clone were purchased by my parents; the rest were giveaways that were being retired by businesses.)
About 10 years ago, I started collecting vintage Macintoshes. Since then, I've expanded to other vintage computers. At present, I have somewhere over 100 vintage computers in my basement, mostly in storage pending a (long-delayed) remodel. My main vintage rigs are:
Apple IIc
Apple IIc+
Apple IIgs
Macintosh (the original, pre-"128K" nomenclature, mine has a serial number that indicates it was manufactured in December 1983!)
Macintosh SE/30
Macintosh Centris 650
IBM PC/AT
IBM PS/2 model 77 (486)
IBM "Personal Computer Power Series", a PowerPC-based "PC". Largely based on the equivalent-era RS/6000 workstation, this line used more commodity parts, like IDE instead of SCSI. Obviously, the line was a failure.
IBM ThinkPad Power Series 820. Like the PC Power Series, it's PowerPC-based. This was NOT based on an RS/6000 of any kind, but was a new design. Ironically, when the "PC Power Series" line was folded, the last model of PPC ThinkPad was rolled INTO the RS/6000 line.
NeXTstation Turbo (complete with original grayscale MegaPixel Display, external matching black CD-ROM drive, and matching black laser printer.)
SGI Indy
HP Apollo 735 - a PA-RISC 'pizza-box' workstation.
My current main rig is a dual "Nehalem" Xeon workstation, 12 GB RAM, and a GeForce 9600GT, with OS X hacked on to it. (I have a faster video card for use in Windows, but it doesn't run in OS X.)
