PCs & Notebook computers maintained at this web

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This page was written by Christopher Spry.

These are the two PCs and three Notebook computers I maintain:

• 1. Dell Precision WorkStation 220 Pentium III 933-MHz.
• 2. Dell Precision Workstation 610MT Pentium III Xeon 500-MHz and 1-MB cache
• 3. Toshiba Tecra 8100 notebook computer Pentium III 650-MHz 
• 4. IBM ThinkPad i series 1300 notebook computer Athlon 600-MHz 
• 5. Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT notebook computer Pentium 150-MHz

1. Dell Precision Workstation 220

Dell Precision 220

MARIONPC

Running 'Windows 2000 Professional'

Bought 13 November 2000

• MiniTower (W x H x D)  8.7" x 19.3" x 17.8" with 230 watts power supply

• Processor: single 933-MHz Pentium III processor with 256K Full-speed Cache

• Chipset: Intel 820 with 133MHz front side bus

• Memory: Two RIMM Slots support with one 256-MB Rambus dynamic random-access memory (RDRAM). It can take up to two 512-megabyte (MB) RIMMs, total 1-GB.

• Graphics card: Matrox G400 Max graphics card (32MB)

• Hard disks: Integrated dual ATA-66 controller with two 20-GB (7,200 rpm) ATA-100 IDE hard drives, which are SMART II-compliant

• CD-ROM: IDE CD-ROM drive

• Bays: three externally accessible 5.25" peripheral bays, four internal 3.5" hard drive bays (2 x 1.0", 2 x 1.6").

• One 4X AGP and five PCI slots

• Ethernet card: Integrated 3Com 3C920 Fast EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI with Wakeup on LAN network interface card

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP1 Professional with CD using FAT32

• Monitor: , Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 21TX 21" monitor

• IntelliMouse with IntelliEye wheeled optical three-button mouse, Microsoft.

• Keyboard: Dell Performance 105-key (mechanical) keyboard.

• Sound card: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! sound card

• Ports: 

• Two 9-pin serial connectors; 16550-compatible

• 25-pin parallel connector (bidirectional)

• 15-pin Video DIN connector

• 6-pin keyboard connector

• 6-pin mouse connector

• RJ45 NIC connector

• Two USB-compliant 4-pin connectors

• 1/8-inch Audio line-in miniature audio jack

• 1/8-inch Audio line-out miniature audio jack

• 1/8-inch Audio microphone-in miniature audio jack

• Uninterruptible power supply 'Smart-UPS 700', American Power Conversion.

2. Dell Precision Workstation 610MT

The Dell Precision Workstation 610 has been described and reviewed by ZDNET.

SPRYNT

Running 'Windows 2000 Professional'

Bought 19 April 1999

• Chassis: Mini tower. Three 5.25" external drive bays. Four 3.5" internal drive bays. Two 1.6-inch hard drive bays. Two 1-inch hard drive bays. Lockable with chassis-intrusion alarm.
• Chip set: Intel 440GX AGP. 100-MHz system and memory bus and 2 x AGP graphics bus. 32-KB internal L1 cache (16-KB instruction, 16-KB data).
• Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1 Rev. A06.
• Processor: One Intel Pentium III Xeon 500-MHz processor with MMX technology and 1-MB full speed Level 2 ECC SRAM cache on a single edge contact (SEC) cartridge (slot 2).
• Power supply with 330W maximum output and enhanced power and cooling. Two fans with fan failure sensors. Temperature sensor for CPUs and hard drives.
• SCSI controllers: Card-integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2/Wide SCSI controller for up to four hard disks. Integrated Adaptec 7880 Ultra2/Wide SCSI controller for the CD-ROM and up to two other devices.
• Five PCI slots. Three 32-bit PCI slots. One shared 32-bit PCI/ISA slot. One 32-bit PCI/RAIDport connector. One 2-x-AGP slot.
• 100-MHz system and memory bus and two AGP graphics bus. 32-KB internal L1 cache (16-KB instruction, 16-KB data).
• Memory: 256-MB SDRAM DIMM of ECC 100-MHz SDRAM in one of the four DIMM slots which deliver up to 800MB/s data-transfer.
• Hard disks: Two Seagate 'Cheetah 18' (ST118202LW) 18.0-GB 10,000 RPM Ultra2/Wide SCSI hard disks with 1 x 10(6) MTBF. One is a backup disk, an exact copy of the system disk, using PowerQuest's 'DriveImage Pro'. One Seagate 'Cheetah' 73.4-GB 10,000 rpm hard disk, for video files.
• Diskette drive: Slim-line 3.5" 1.44-MB.
• CD-ROM: NEC CDR-1910, 32X 14/32 x SCSI CD-ROM (supports CD Extra, CD Audio, CD ROM-XA, CD-I, Video CD, and Photo CD).
• Graphic card: Matrox Millennium G400 MAX.
• Monitor: Samsung SM240T 24" TFT LCD digital monitor
• Ethernet card: Integrated 3Com 10/100Base-TX fast ethernet with Wake-up On LAN.  Dell 'OpenManage’ v 4.2 client, DMI 2.0 compliance.
• Sound: Card-integrated Crystal 16-bit SoundBlaster-compatible sound with SRS 3D sound.  Altec Lansing Technologies Inc. 'ACS-295' speakers with subwoofer and microphone.
• Internal modem: Aztech 56-KB/s PCI modem type MDP3858-W. A fully-featured data/fax/ modem with Rockwell K56flex technology, PCI interface and software upgradeable to V.PCM.
• Keyboard: Dell Performance 105-key (mechanical) keyboard.
• IntelliMouse with IntelliEye wheeled optical three-button mouse, Microsoft.
• Tektronix Phaser 740 Plus colour laser printer, Tektronics.
• Scanner: Epson Perfection 1640SU Office, 1600 x 3200dpi USB colour flatbed scanner.
• Uninterruptible power supply 'Smart-UPS 1000', American Power Conversion.

3. Toshiba Tecra 8100 notebook computer

Toshiba Tecra 8100 Model PT810U-23CP5 with 14.1" TFT display, 256-MB RAM (512-MB maximum),18-GB hard disk, 6 x DVD-Rom and built-in v.90/K56Flex Winmodem in a polycarbonate ABS case.

SPRYPC4

Running 'Windows 2000 Professional'

Bought 10 March 2000.

• Processor: Intel 'Pentium' III 650-MHz 1.6-V  with SpeedStep, BIOS v 1.50.
• Display: 14.1" TFT active matrix colour display.
• Battery: Li-Ion, 10.8V, 4500mAH.
• Graphic adapter:  S3 Savage/MX, S3 Inc. compatible adapter, PNP device with 8-MB adapter RAM, one colour planes, 4294967296 colour table entries, maximal resolution 1024 x 768 x 75 hertz and 32 Bits/Pixel.
• BUS: 100-MHz PCI front side bus
• Memory:  256-MB
• Hard disks: Two IBM-DARA-218000 18.1-GB hard disks formatted to 16.89-GB with NTFS
• Toshiba DVD-ROM type SD-C2302 x 6 supporting DVD-Video, DVD-ROM only (no DVD-RAM), DVD-RW (read only) x 6 DVD, x 24 CD.
• Sound system: Yamaha YMF744B-R, AKM AK4544 (Codec chip) with native DS1 WDM driver. It supports SoundBlaster Pro v.3.01, MIDI and Windows Sound System v.2.0
• Infra-red: Toshiba FIR Port Type-DO
• USB port.
• IntelliMouse with IntelliEye wheeled optical three-button mouse, Microsoft.
• AC adapter 25 or 40w 49G2192.
• Modem, internal Toshiba ITU/ K56Flex V.34, V.90
• NetDock Port Replicator  Ethernet connection: 10/100BaseT Ethernet (3Com Chipset: 3C920), Wake-On-LAN & Remote Boot, 1-Docking port (240-pin), 1-serial, 1-parallel, 1-SVGA (RGB), 1-PS/2 Keyboard port, 1-PS/2 Mouse port, 2-USB ports, 1-Ethernet (RJ-45), 1-Line-in, 1-Line-out, 1-DC in port, 1- PCI interface for Expansion Station (71-pin) Security lock slot, Eject lever.
• Intel PRO/100 CardBus II PC-card adapter, ethernet 802.3
• Monitor: Sony GDM-F500 Trinitron colour graphics monitor.
• CD Writer Plextor external SCSI CD-ReWriter - PlexWriter 12/4/32 with Adaptec SCSI PC-card
• Canopus 'DVStorm' digital video (DV) PCI graphics card with breakout box.

4. IBM ThinkPad 'i series' 1300 notebook computer

IBM ThinkPad i Series 1300 model TI037UK.

EMILYPC

Running 'Windows 2000 Professional'

Bought 25 October 2000

• ThinkPad i Series 1300 Type 1171-377, model TI037UK
• Intel Mobile Celeron 550 MHz
• Planar clock speed 100 MHz
• 13. 3 inches XGA TFT active matrix screen with AGP graphics bus, SMI LynxEM4+ 4-MB graphics chipset giving 1280x1024 and 65536 colours
• 128-MB SDRAM, total 192-MB memory
• 12-GB EIDE hard disk, average seek time 12, 14 ms, Average latency 7.1 ms
• EIDE CD-ROM:24Xmax-10Xmin
• Modem 56K V.90 Integrated
• PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps
• Nickel Hydride battery
• Plug and Play support (PCMCIA); Parallel ports: 1 EPP/ECP bidirectional; Serial ports: 2 USB; Expansion ports: Display, Headphone jack, Keyboard/mouse/numpad, Microphone jack, RJ-11, RJ-45
• A/C adapter 56 watt
• Alpha Plus Carrying Case
• IBM External USB Floppy Disk Drive
• 340-MB Microdrive: IBM model DMDM-10340

5. Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT notebook computer

Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT/2.1 GB EN,

SPRYPC1

* I  have prepared a guide to installing Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4 on this computer.

Running 'Windows 2000 Professional'

Bought 17 April 1997

• Intel 'Pentium' 150 MHz processor with  MMX technology, integrated maths co-processor, 32KB internal cache, 256KB pipelined burst level 2 cache, BIOS v 6.50.
• 12.1" TFT active matrix colour display
• Graphic adapter: Chips and Tech. 65550 PCI Ver. 4.0, 2MB 64-bit EDO DRAM Video Memory, Graphics: 64-bit BitBLT acceleration. 1024 x 768 Internal LCD and maximum. colour support 65.536 (64K) colours at 1024 x 768. Video Zoom, YUV to RGB conversion. Vertical and Horizontal Interpolation
• BUS: 30 MHz PCI bus
• Memory:  Base: 640 KB,  Shadow RAM: 256 KB; Noteworthy 128-MB memory card Micro Solutions Inc. Total: 143.55 MB.
• Hard disks: Two Toshiba 2.1 GB removable hard disks and a 5-GB hard disk from Micro Solutions Inc., Enhanced IDE.
• NIMH Battery, two, lasting about 2 hours each
• AC adapter 25 or 40w 49G2192
• Microsoft Intellimouse on PS2 socket
• 10/100 ethernet/modem PC-card adapter, RealPort
• Modem, internal Toshiba 28.8 BPS data, voice, fax modem
• CardStation II, port replicator and PC-card sockets
• IntelliMouse with IntelliEye wheeled optical three-button mouse, Microsoft.
• SmartView SV2 KVM switch, Adder Technology Ltd. Switch between two computers using one keyboard, display and mouse.
• Canon BJC-80 colour inkjet portable printer with NT4 driver v 2.40.

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© cspry@sghms.ac.uk. Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821. This page was updated on 30 April 2002 18:40:39.