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Over the years, I have used these computers for work on my projects like programming, hacking, chatting on the IRC and also to play video games, in exception of the Sun Enterprise which was a server.
I mainly used Intel/AMD PCs and laptops for the daily work but, during some periods of time, I also used the Amiga 1200T and the SPARCStation 20 as the main workstations.
Amiga featured very well: On that time I was running an ISP company and doing all the administrative work on the Amiga: email, managing control panels, SSH, IRC support, etc. AmigaOS multitasking was great. The SPARCStation 20 was not doing bad but the pkgsrc package compilation was a hell.
The best workstation setup I ever had and still have is a Linux Debian laptop.
![]() | IBM PS/1 | 80286 @ 10 MHz. 1024 KB RAM. 30 MB HD. | MS-DOS 6.22 | Wordperfect, Norton Commander, Gobliiins, Alone in the Dark, F29 Retaliator, La Abadía del Crimen, Lemmings, Monkey Island… (still owning it, in my basement) |
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![]() | Amiga 1200 | 68030 @ 50 MHz. 128 MB RAM. 4 GB HD. | AmigaOS 3.5 | Directory Opus, YAM, AWeb, AmIRC, Deluxe Paint, SCALA. + Games, tons of games. I still play games on it. |
![]() | Amiga 1200T | 68040+PPC603e @ 240 MHz. 128 MB RAM. 3x 20 GB SCSI HD. CDRW. Ethernet. | AmigaOS 3.5 / NetBSD 7.0 | Directory Opus, YAM, AWeb, AmIRC, Deluxe Paint, SCALA. + Games, tons of games. NetBSD and open source programs. Now it's running NetBSD but I'm setting up an Amiga OS 4 for PPC. |
![]() | HP/9000-712 | PA7100LC @ 100 MHz. 128 MB RAM. 1 GB SCSI HD. Ethernet. | HP-UX 11 | CDE, Unix networking tools. Not in my basement anymore, I gave it away to my friend Josep Subils. |
![]() | Toshiba Satellite 1410 | Intel Mobile @ 1.6 GHz. 256 MB RAM. 30 GB HD. Ethernet, wifi. | Debian 4 | KDE. Linux tools. Retired. |
![]() | SPARCStation 20 | SuperSPARC 50 MHz. 128 MB RAM. 18 GB SCSI HD. Ethernet. | NetBSD 1.6 | KDE, IRC, Unix tools. Retired. |
![]() | Sun Enterprise 4500 | 14 x UltraSPARC II 400 MHz. 24 GB RAM. 17 x 72 GB SCSI HD. Ethernet. | Solaris 10 | Network and ISP services. Retired. |
![]() | Virtual machines server | AMD Ryzen 5, 16 GB RAM | Proxmox VE | |
![]() | Virtual machines server | AMD Ryzen 5, 16 GB RAM | Proxmox VE |