For those of you who have been wondering what kind of systems I'm currently using at home, here are some specs.

Hannibal

This is the desktop I cobbled together myself.

• ATX case with 6 bays (3 5-inch external, 2 3.5-inch external, 1 3.5-inch internal) and a ball-bearing case fan
• FIC PA-2013 ATX Super Socket 7 motherboard with 2 MB Level 2 cache
• AMD K6-2/450 w/ ball-bearing fan
• 128 MB PC100 RAM (1 DIMM, 2 slots free)
• 8.4 GB Western Digital hard drive
  Two FAT32 Win98 partitions

  5.2 GB Maxtor hard drives, cannibalized from Mulder (my previous machine)

  Two FAT32 Win98 partitions and about 3 GB set aside for Linux

  one 3.5-inch floppy drive, cannibalized from Mulder

  Digital Research 50X IDE/ATAPI CD-Rom

  Memorex CRW-1622 2x2x6 IDE/ATAPI CD-Rewriter

  Zoom 56k/v.90 internal Dual-mode modem

  ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP 8 MB video card with TV-Out

  Soundblaster Live! Value

  Logitech FirstMouse+ (3-button/wheel), cannibalized from Mulder

  Keytronic black Lifetime Series keyboard, cannibalized from Mulder

  Epson Parallel Zip100 drive on LPT1, cannibalized from Mulder

  Epson 600 color inkjet printer on LPT2, cannibalized from Mulder

  ECP/EPP second parallel port card, cannibalized from Mulder

  17" monitor (replaced the 15" monitor when it burned out.)

  Inexpensive USB scanner -- I don't remember which brand and I'm not looking at it at the moment.

  Running Windows 98 Second Edition. I keep intending to re-install Linux on that other partition.

No, it's not a top-of-the-line gaming machine, but I only play a few, and only occasionally. Mostly, I'm using it for word processing and web work.

Unnamed

I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite 2675DVD, to facilitate getting work done at school and on the road.

• Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
• Built-in 56k modem
• Built-in sound system
• 12" Active Matrix display, with TV-out capability
• 64 MB RAM
• 6.0 GB hard drive
• 3.5" floppy
• 6x DVD-Rom
• Li-Ion battery
• Refurbished USB Zip drive
• 3Com Home Connect USB Webcam (I swap between them as needed)