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Wow! This took a lot more effort than I thought. I did a lot of searching through company product histories and archives of credit card transactions to put most of this together. I previously did the Game Console Genealogy, so here is the Home Computer Genealogy...computers I've grown up with.

• 1982 TRS-80 Model 3 (borrowed from my Mom's school for the summer)
• 1983 TI-99/4A (Joe's computer, but he let me use it)
  • Cassette recorder for storing/retrieving data
  • Used a color TV as a monitor
• 1984 Apple //e (technically, my first computer)
  • DuoDisk - dual 5.25" floppy drives
  • Apple Monitor II - monochrome with green phosphor, screen could be tilted slightly up or down
  • Okidata dot matrix printer
• 1990 IBM PS/2 55SX (my college gift)
  • 16 MHz Intel 386SX
  • 2 MB RAM
  • 60 MB hard drive
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • Sound Blaster MCV
  • IBM 14" 640x480 monitor (8512)
  • Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer (inherited from Joe)
  • IBM PS/2 2-Button Mouse
  • 1200 baud modem
  • Operating Systems
    • MS DOS 4, 5, & 6
    • Windows 2.0
    • Windows 3.0
    • Windows 3.1
• 1993 USA Flex (Mail Order PC)
  • 40 MHz AMD 486 DX 40
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • Sound Blaster 16
  • Monitors
    • 15"
    • 17" NEC MultiSync
  • Printers
    • Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer
    • HP Deskjet 660cse color ink jet printer
  • Modems
    • 2400 baud
    • 14.4k baud
    • 28.8k baud
  • Operating Systems
    • MS DOS 6
    • Windows 3.1
    • Windows 95
• 1997 Homebuilt PC
  • 233 MHz Intel Pentium MMX
  • 64 MB RAM
  • 24X CD-ROM
  • 3.8 GB Quantum hard drive
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • Monitors
    • 17" NEC MultiSync
    • 21" Compaq P110 - bought this right before I left my job at Compaq so I could get the 50% employee discount. The monitor was originally $2000, but I paid (you guessed it!) $1000.
  • ATI Rage graphics card
  • Sound Blaster AWE64
  • HP Deskjet 660cse color ink jet printer
  • 56k baud modem
  • Operating Systems
    • Windows 95
    • Windows 98
  • $2,000
• 1999 Homebuilt PC
  • Dual 500 MHz Intel Pentium III's
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • ATI All In Wonder (3D Rage II) Graphics Card/TV Tuner
  • Sound Blaster Live!
  • 21" Compaq P110 monitor
  • HP Deskjet 660cse color ink jet printer
  • Operating Systems
    • Windows 2000
    • Windows 98
    • BeOS
    • SuSE Linux
    • Windows XP Professional
• 2001 Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop
  • 1 GHz Mobile Intel Pentium III
  • 512 MB RAM
  • Nvidia GeForce2 Go
  • 1600x1200 LCD
  • 24X CD Burner/DVD
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • Windows XP Professional
  • $4,000
• 2002 Homebuilt PC
  • CPU's
    • 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (overheated and died an early death)
    • 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4
  • 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics Cards
  • Nvidia GeForce 4
  • Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
  • Nvidia GeForce 6800
  • HP DVD Writer dvd200i
  • 3.5" floppy drive
  • HP Scanjet 5470c
  • 21" Compaq P110 monitor
  • Printers
    • HP Deskjet 660cse color ink jet printer
    • HP Deskjet 990cse
    color ink jet printer
  • Windows XP Professional

  Posted on May 13, 2006 4:03 PM | Permalink| Comments (2)

Here is a list of video game consoles I've owned throughout my life. The first one (Radio Shack TV Scoreboard) took a lot of googling in order to find a picture of it. Apparently I've had a console from every generation except the 3rd generation. My guess is that I was busy playing on computers at that time. I'll do my computer genealogy next.

• 1976 Radio Shack TV Scoreboard (1st Generation)
• 1980 Mattel Intellivision (2nd Generation)
• 1991 Nintendo Super Nintendo (4th Generation)
• 1995 Sony PlayStation (5th Generation)
• 1999 Sega DreamCast (6th Generation)
• 2000 Sony PlayStation 2 (6th Generation)
• 2005 Microsoft Xbox 360 (7th Generation)

Posted on May 12, 2006 9:53 PM | Permalink| Comments (2)

1. Becky Hammon, New York Liberty (she’s the little one in the picture above)
2. Sue Bird, Seattle Storm
3. Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm (in SI’.s swimsuit issue this year)
4. Kayte Christensen, Pheonix Mercury (waived in July 2005)

Posted on February 18, 2006 2:40 PM | Permalink| Comments (0)