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Sputnik
An 8MB '386, a computer in a drill case, used mainly to prepare books for the internet and for functional programming.
Rapala
An 8MB '486-66 with two sound cards, used for sound synthesis and for four-channel sonic holography.
The "motherboard" is in fact just a row of ISA bus connectors; the main processor and RAM are on a plug-in card.
Beatnik
A 28MB '486-66, the central server of my lumpystreet web site in 2002.
Jackup
An 8MB '486-25, displaying screen savers in the front window of the house, also used as a networked X terminal.
Neko
A P133, ex Compaq Deskpro: a stand-alone web-browsing station or X terminal.
Nekon2 and Neko2
A 500MHz general-purpose computer (the bottom half) used mainly for the development of Live Linux CDs and video processing, with a separate 133MHz processor to run the window system (the top half).
Rear views of the main processor, whole unit and video processor.
The cluster
8 x 400-733MHz Pentiums, 192/256 RAM each + swap, used for distributed compilation of C and C++, video compression and clustering Live CDs..
Technical details
Latitude
Tank and boxer
If you enjoyed seeing these computers in or on strange boxes,
you might also enjoy Zaverio's "Legnatile" wooden laptop. or a collection of ARM systems.