murmurhrm

whispers from the god-machine

my pc's :)

girlgirlsnirt

running: Linux Mint 22 (formerly Arch)
model: Lenovo ThinkPad T480s (2018)

she's cute and small, mainly used for travel or as a loaner for friends who need a computer when their own breaks. she suffers from a condition known as soldered-on RAM, so she can't be upgraded past 8GB. we love a tragic queen.

stinkpad

running: Arch Linux
model: Lenovo ThinkPad T430 (2012)

she's beautiful, she's portable, she's been modded to hell and back. she's everything you could ever want. i don't even know every mod she has on her, i bought her used for cheap online. her BIOS is flashed for use with older ThinkPad keyboards, but those keyboards refuse to actually work on her so none of the buttons actually do what you think they'll do. she has holes and grafts in her chassis and she always smells a bit like hot plastic. she's perfect.

blockbluster

running: Debian Linux
model: Sun Microsystems Ultra 40 M2 (c. 2007)

she's a gorgeous tower, with eight (8) HDD drive slots and a chassis that demands adoration. we pulled her from a garage in [CITY REDACTED], stuffed her into the back of a crossover, and looked over her components with envy. she needed a lot of work. her previous owner had installed Windows 10, which she could barely handle, and her SAS RAID controller setup kept her behind a 2TB-per-drive 32-bit cap. she also had some non-functional RAM, DDR2, not the easiest to replace but take one look at her and tell me you wouldn't risk it all for her. now she's humming happily along to the tune of Debian, handling her tasks with the help of 16GB RAM, and holding two 10TB storage drives alongside a crisp 256GB SSD for the OS. with 5 HDD slots remaining, she's more than happy to continue growing into the showstopper she was always meant to be.

bontour

model: Compaq Contura 4/25c (c. 1994)

she's a lovely little machine. the current plan, after finishing all diagnostics and repairs, will be to try running Windows 95 on her. i am also considering a very light Linux distribution.

zootbo

Zenith ZFL-181-93 (c. 1987)

check out her dual floppy drives! i'm jealous... ideally, she will run Windows 2.0 or 1.0 once all diagnostics and repairs are complete.

lilly

model: Apple ][+ (c. 1979)

i have a sweet spot for the Apple ][+. given to me from my father, it was the first computer i ever used or owned. i technically have two of these machines: the one i had as a child, and this one. the childhood machine is in a different country, so this listing is for the one i acquired here. diagnostics and repairs pending completion, but my main use for her will be to read 5 1/4" floppy disks and to help bring all the personal family documents we wrote on those disks into modern storage.