Circa 1987 - 1990

  • Tandy Color Computer III - My aunt gave it to me because no one used it anymore

  • TRS-80 Model 102(My First Laptop): I had the audio cassette tape drive, printer, 300 baud null modem adapter

    1990 - 1995

  • IBM - PS/2 Model 25

    In between computers that literally died before my eyes. Several Smith-Corona word processors were used to facilitate typing reports.

    1995 - 1999 The Birth of Shiksa

  • AST Advantage Adventure 486DX/2 66MHz Processor Windows 3.11 updated to Windows 95.. Radioshack tempted alot of customers :-) with that free upgrade coupon. I even installed muLinux on it. My first Linux Distro. Later hal91. I received my first and only virus on here. Later diagnosed as the HLLT.KRILE. I sent hex captures of infected executables to Mcafee and they soon pushed out a DAT file. I never got paid for that if I recall. 
    Adventure 6066d  (250-0434)     Specifications        Faxback Doc. # 14295

Processor:..............486 DX2/66, Upgradeable to Intel Pentium Overdrive
External Drive Bays:..............................3 half-height drive bays
Floppy Drive:................................One 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive
Internal Drive:........One 3.5" (occupied), 540 MB Internal IDE hard drive
I/O Expansion Slots:......................................Three 16-bit ISA
External Ports:.............1 serial: buffered 16550 UART, 1 parallel: ECP
Graphics:....................................16-bit Local Bus VGA graphics
                                                      1 MB graphics memory
                                       1024 x 768 x 256 maximum resolution
Video Chipset:......................................Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428
Standard/Maximum RAM:...........................................8 MB/36 MB
Cache:......................................8 KB integrated, write through
IDE CD-ROM Drive (ATAPI):....................Quad speed, 600KB+ per second
                                      transfer rate, sub 190ms access time
Sound Card:.................................16-bit SoundBlaster compatible
Modem:.........................14.4 Data/Fax/Voice modem with speakerphone
Power Supply:...........100 watt power supply, Dual voltage (110v or 220v)
Power Management:...............................EPA certified as an Energy
                                                      Star and DPMS system
Accessories:.............................101 Keyboard, AST 2-button mouse,
                                            AST mousepad, stereo speakers,
                                            ergonomic condenser microphone

(ALL-03/21/95)
    1999 - Beyond
  • Shiksa II Emachines eOne (iMac First Generation Clone) Oses installed: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Whistler, Windows 2000, BeOS, Almost Every Linux Distro: Redhat 6.0,Slackware, Debian, Mandrake (Now Mandriva), Suse... the list goes on
  • Shiksa III Custom Built AMD Athlon 600 Mhz, 256 MB Ram. All The Oses above plus OS/2, QNX, RactOS, Linspire, BSD, Solaris x86. And a Few more I can't remember

    Systems I Still Have

  • Mediapc Dead
  • Mac Mini
  • Shiksa V
  • Mothra
  • Sucrose Dead
  • Acer
  • Pundit
  • Orion
    Noah Swint © 2009