What I Use
Details about what hardware and software I currently use for my tech projects.
Modern
Hardware
- Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Workstation
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX
- 64GB DDR4 3200MHz ECC RAM
- ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB
- Samsung 980 PRO 500GB NVMe
- 1000W Power Supply
- ASUS PA278QV 27" 1440p Monitor
- Dell U2715H 27" 1440p Monitor
- IBM Model M Keyboard (1391401, May 1989)
- Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical
Software
- Gentoo Linux
- KDE Plasma 5.x
- Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA
- Jetbrains CLion
- Jetbrains DataGrip
- Sublime Text
- Sublime Merge
- Insomnia
- GIMP
- Mozilla Firefox
- Discord
- LibreOffice
- Konsole / Bash
- Docker / Podman
- Rust (Cargo), Java (Maven), Clojure (Leiningen)
Retro
Hardware
- Custom built, "baby ATX" form-factor tower 486 computer
- UMC UM8498F Motherboard, Intel 80486 DX2 66MHz, 16MB RAM
- S3 86C805-P VL41C/V2 1MB VLB
- GoldStar Prime 2C MIO V3.1 Multi I/O ISA
- Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 ISA
- Gravis Ultrasound Classic 3.74 1MB ISA
- 3COM 3C509B-TPC Etherlink III ISA
- Quantum Maverick ProDrive MV54A011 540MB
- Matshita CR-583 8x CD-ROM
- Epson SD-600 5.25" 1.2MB Floppy Drive
- Mitsumi D359T6 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
- Athena Power AP-AT30 300W
- Sony Trinitron Multiscan 210GS 17" CRT Monitor
- IBM Model M2 Keyboard (1395300, August 1990)
- Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.1A
I previously wrote more about this retro PC build here when I first put it together. However, over time I've changed things around to the current configuration detailed above.
Software
- MS DOS 6.22
- Windows 3.1
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7
- Watcom C/C++ 10.0
- Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5
- Borland Turbo Assembler 4
- Borland Turbo Debugger 3
- Aurora Text Editor
- Deluxe Paint II
- GrafX 2