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As every computer geek, I also have a long history of used computers,
which I publish here, to be able to look back what I used once.

This document also explains the origin of most computer names I have been using.

This site was originally know as **tech.schottelius.org**.

## Servers

### suppe.schottelius.org

First, in 1998, there was **suppe.schottelius.org**. It was my first
webserver, dns-server and mail-server. I recieved it as a gift
from a kindergarten, because it was too slow for them.
The name is derived from the German phrase "suppelte herum",
which means "is still working, but may break if you look at it
too strong".

You actually should have seen it, it consisted of the following hardware:

    Chassis:       Midi-Tower
    Processor:     Intel Pentium 120Mhz
    RAM:           48 MiB (16+16+8+8)
    Harddisk:      2 GiB IDE (PIO mode/16Bit ;)
    NIC:           Some 3Com PCI 10Mbit (3c509?)
    CDROM:         Something like that appeared to be installed
    Floppy         1x3,5" , 2x5,25"

 * Productive use: 2000 - 2003

### bruehe.schottelius.org

Later, in 2003, **suppe** was replaced by **bruehe**. One day, broth ran
into the **bruehe**, and **bruehe** is the German word for broth.

The first version of **bruehe** had the following technical features:

    Chassis:          Midi-Tower
    Processor:        Pentium3 550Mhz
    RAM:              640 MB (256+128+128+128)
    Harddisk (scsi):  3* 4 GB scsi-3 (raid 1, one spare disk)
    Harddisk (ide):   3* 40 GB ide/udma100 (raid 1, one spare disk)
    NIC (lan):        3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
    NIC (dmz):        3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
    NIC (inet):       Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
    NIC (wlan):       Global Sun Technology Inc
    Optical drive:    IDE DVD(+/-, R/RW,RAM) -Burner (old: 32x IDE)
    Floppy:           removed (was: 1x3,5")

Later the one scsi and one ide drive was removed due to problems
with the power supply. And an additional NIC was put into.

At the time **bruehe** was replaced by **creme** (see below) it became
the firewall for the lan at home.

 * Productive use: 2003 - 2006

Bruehe is actually still in use, but only as a table below my desk.

### creme.schottelius.org

Because a customer of me broke a contract, I had to keep
a very nice dual Xeon server back. This one became
**creme.schottelius.org**. The name comes from "creme de la creme"
which means "one of the best".

    Chassis:       2U
    Processor:     Dual Single core Xeon 2.40 Ghz
    RAM:           1024 MB (2*512)
    Harddisk:      2* 80 GB ide/udma (raid1)
    NIC:           2* Intel(R) PRO/1000
    CDROM:         Slim line IDE 52x DVD

 * Productive use: 2005 - 2008

### tee.schottelius.org

After creme, I bought a smaller 1U server with remote access.
As it is smaller and thinner then creme, it was named tee.
Here are the specs:

    Chassis:       Intel S5000PAL
    Processor:     Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410  @ 2.33GHz
    RAM:           20 GiB (2*2 GiB, 4*4 GiB)
    Harddisk:      2* 500 GB sata (raid1)
    Raid:          ARC-1210 4-Port PCI-Express to SATA RAID Controller
    NIC:           2* Intel 80003ES2LAN (Gigabit)
    CDROM:         Available

 * Productive use: 2008 - 2015

### Data Center Light

Running servers for myself only was too easy. So in 2015 I started the
[Data Center Light project](https://datacenterlight.ch) to offer
a sustainable alternative to regular hostings for myself. And for everyone
else who is interested in the future of our planet.


## Notebooks

### flapp.intern.schottelius.org

Flapp was my first notebook, a Acer Travelmate 524TEV.
Quite a nice machine, bought with the first money I made.

    Processor:       Intel Pentium III 650 Mhz with Speedstep
    Ram:             64MB (max: 512MB)
    HD:              10 GB, UDMA 33: IBM-DJSA-210
    CD:              24x CD / 6x DVD: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8175
    USB:             ALi M5237
    Network:         Intel Ethernet Pro 100
    VGA:             ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x
    PCMCIA:          O2 Micro OZ6933
    IDE:             ALi M5229
    Sound:           ALi 5451
    Touchpad:        Synaptics
    Modem:           Lucent SoftModem Version 3.1.66
    Infrared:        Ali Fast Infrared
    Display:         13.3" TFT


 * Productive use: 1998 - 2003

### scice.intern.schottelius.org

After **flapp** died in 2003 (because tea ran into it), I bought
**scice**. **Scice** is combined of "scientific" and "silence".

Scice has a Transmeta TM5400 processor and no active cooling. It
was produced by ECS under the name of "A530".

    Processor:     Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5600, 600Mhz
    RAM:           128MiB (upgraded to 384MiB later)
    Optical drive: DVD-ROM / CD-RW
    Display:       14" TFT
    Mouse input:   Touchpad
    Other:         4x USB2.0

* Productive use: 2003 - 2005

### ei.intern.schottelius.org

Was an IBook G3. Background light broke / screen was unusable in
2005. It was able to suspend to RAM running Linux for weeks.

    Processor:    Power PC
    RAM: 320 MB

* Productive use: 2004 - 2005

### hydrogenium.intern.schottelius.org

When the battery of **scice** ended its life time about one year after
I bought it, I decided to buy a used Compaq Evo N400C.

    Processor:    Pentium III (Coppermine) 850 Mhz
    Display:      12" TFT

 * Productive use: 2005 - 2008

### wasserstoff.intern.schottelius.org

To be more precise, when I bought **hydrogenium**, I also bought
**wasserstoff**, which is also a used Compaq Evo N400C. **Wasserstoff**
is simply there to spend parts, when **hydrogenium** needs to have
them replaced.


### ast.intern.schottelius.org

Pentium 1 notebook. Never really used it productively,
was thought to be a terminal. It also had the alias "alzheimer"
as the main and the bios battery were both broken.

    Processor: Pentium 1, 75 Mhz
    RAM: ?
    HD: 30 GB (yes, not originally and Bios sees only 8 GB ;-)
    Vendor: AST

### denkbrett.intern.schottelius.org

An IBM T60.

    Processor:          Dual Core ..?
    RAM:                3 GiB
    HD:                 80 GB
    Wireless-lan:       Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

 * Productive use: 2007 - 2008

### ikn.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo Thinkpad X200. The name is derived from its
main use in ETH Zürich, "Informatikkoordinator Nico".

    Processor:       Dual Core Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8400  @ 2.26GHz
    RAM:             4 GiB
    HD:              250 GB SATA
    Graphics card:   Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
    Wireless-lan:    Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5300
    Ethernet:        Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit
    Display:         12"

 * Productive use: 2008 - 2010

### kobold.intern.schottelius.org

An IBM X31 running as wireless access point, router,
firewall, fileserver (three usb harddrives connected,
running raid5 under the crypt layer) and video player.

    Processor:       Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
    RAM:             1 GiB
    HD:              40 GB
    Graphics card:   ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP)
    Wireless-lan:    Atheros AR5212 802.11abg
    Ethernet:        Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)

 * Productive use: 2009 - 2011

### kr.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo Thinkpad X201. The name is an abreviation for
"klapprechner", the German translation for "notebook".

    Processor:       Dual Core Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520  @ 2.40GHz (4 threads)
    RAM:             4 GiB
    HD:              500 GB SATA
    Graphics card:   Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
    Wireless-lan:    Intel Corporation WiFi Link 6000 Series
    Ethernet:        Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network
    Display:         12", LED backlight

 * Productive use: 2010 - 2011

### tablett.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo T60. Used for putting glasses on it. Changed in 2020 to be
used as a NAT64 translator.

 * Productive use: 2011 - now

### fernseher.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo T6?.

 * Productive use: unknown

### kino.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo T61p.

 * Productive use: unknown

### brief.intern.schottelius.org

An Apple Mac Book Air 4,2 given to me by my
employer. The name is the German name for "letter". Similar to "ei", I
was running Linux on this computer. However compared to the original
iBook, this computer was way harder to get properly running under
Linux due to a custom EFI implementation and lack of stable drivers
for the wifi card.

    Processor:       Dual Core Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2677M CPU @ 1.80GHz (4 threads)
    RAM:             4 GiB
    HD:              256 GB SSD
    Graphics card:   Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Wireless-lan:    Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
    Ethernet:        No ethernet
    Display:         13", LED backlight, 1440x900

 * Productive use: 2011 - 2013

### matte.intern.schottelius.org

I got a Dell System XPS L321X as a present from Dell after
some almost failed negotiations. As its exterior is matt grey and
as an ultrabook it is pretty slim, it was named **matte** (German for "mat").

    Processor:       Dual Core Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60GHz
    RAM:             4 GiB
    HD:              128 GB SSD
    Graphics card:   Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Wireless-lan:    Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
    Ethernet:        No ethernet
    Display:         13", LED backlight

* Productive use: 2012 - 2012

### bento.intern.schottelius.org

Lenovo X1 Carbon, 1st gen. Very small SSD. Used together with a HUGE
SD card to store pictures on, which disconnected on suspend to ram...

    Processor: Intel Core i7­3667U (Dual Core)
    RAM: 8 GiB
    HD: 256GB SSD
    HD: 256GB SD card (very slow)
    Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Display: 14.0", 1600 x 900

* Productive use: 2013 - 2014

### artist.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. The mainboard died within a few months and there
was no replacement or repair available. Lenovo gave a full refund.

    Display: 13", 3200x1800, touch screen

* Productive use: 2014 - 2014

### gold.intern.schottelius.org

This was a Dell E7440 test device.
Various problems with the speaker, even headset almost inaudible.

    Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
    Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)

* Non productive use: 2014 - 2014

### freiheit.intern.schottelius.org

This was an X240 with an impressive run time with an internal and
external battery that could be exchanged. With 3 batteries, it
achieved the 13h+ run time. No charger required during the day.

    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz (4 cores)
    RAM: 8GB
    HD:  1TB SSD

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
    00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
    00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
    00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
    00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I218-LM (rev 04)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev e4)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
    00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
    02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
    03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)

 * Productive use: 2014 - now

### wurzel.intern.schottelius.org

This was a Lenovo X1 Carbon, 3rd gen. Died first time in November 2015.

    Processor: i7-5500U, 2.4 / 3.0 GHz
    RAM: 8GB
    HD: 512 GB SSD
    Display: 14", 2560 x 1440
    Graphics card: Intel HD 5500

* Productive use: 2015 - 2017

### manager.intern.schottelius.org

A Dell Latitude 5285, basically a tablet with quite-okay keyboard.
Always almost fell from my lap once using in the train. Replaced for
sanity with an X1 Carbon afterwards. First device with 16GB RAM.

   RAM: 16 GB
   SSD: 512GB

* Productive use: 2017 - 2018

### line.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th generation. Works ok, until too many browsers
are open. Loud speakers almost existent.

    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz (4C / 8C hyperthreading)
    RAM: 16 GiB
    HD: 512GB SSD
    Graphics card: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
    Wireless lan: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
    Ethernet: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-LM (rev 21)
    (needs a dongle)
    Display: 14"

* Productive use: 2018 - 2020

### snow.intern.schottelius.org

A HP EliteBook x360 1040 G5.
High frequency sound when display brightness was not 0 or 100%.
Had to return because of the annoying noise.

    CPU: i7-8650U
    RAM: 32GB
    HD: SSD PCIe 1TB
    Display: 14", UHD, touch

* Non-productive use: 2019 - 2019

### diamond.intern.schottelius.org

A Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. First device with 32GB RAM. Returned in 2020 due
to massive keyboard problems.

  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz (8 threads)
  RAM: 32 GiB
  HD: 1 TB SSD
  Display: 13.4", 3840x2400 resolution

  [14:17] diamond:~% lspci | grep -i -e net -e vga
  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 8a52 (rev 07)
  00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 34f0 (rev 30)

 * Productive use: 2019 - 2020

### bridge.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo T490s. An in-between device ("bridge") as there is no high-DPI
resolution computer available that is light enough.

  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz
  RAM: 32 GiB
  HD: 512 GB SSD
  Display: 14", 1920x1080 resolution

* Production use: 2020 - now

### hike.intern.schottelius.org

A GPD Pocket 2 for hiking. Small enough to fit into any bag/pocket for hiking.

  RAM: 8GB
  SSD: 256GB
  Display: 7 Inch
  CPU: Intel Celeron 3965Y

* Production use: 2020 - now

### nb1.intern.schottelius.org

This is a bit funny - it's an older Lenovo X1 Carbon, Gen 1. I bought
it to compensate the frequent failures of the T490s and use it while
the T490s is in repair. The SSD is not an NVMe, but connected via
SATA.

  RAM: 8GB
  SSD: 256GB
  Display: 14", 1600x900
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80GHz

Also the first noteboot to deviate from the naming scheme.

* Production use: 2021 - now

### nb2.intern.schottelius.org

A Lenovo T490s. As the bridge notebook (see above) broke already
shortly after buying it (including a repair shortly afterwards) I
added another T490s to the pool as a backup for the T490s.
This one surprisingly came with a touch screen, which unfortunately is
rather dimm.

  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8365U CPU @ 1.60GHz
  RAM: 16 GiB
  HD: 512 GB SSD
  Display: 14", 1920x1080 resolution, touch screen

* Production use: 2021 - now

### nb3.intern.schottelius.org

This is a first gen Lenovo X1 Nano with only 2 USB-C ports. Primary
usage for working outside, as it has a bright display and is light
(sub 1kg). Surprisingly the keyboard is superior to both X1 carbon as
well as T490s.

  RAM: 16GB
  SSD: 1TB
  Display: 13", 2160 x 1350, "up to 450 nit"
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1160G7 @ 1.20GHz

* Production use: 2021 - now

## Workstations/Desktops

Systems I used as workstations:

### ozean.intern.schottelius.org

My first own computer was a Pentium 1 bought from Aldi.
Before that I used my father's computer.
The case of that computer was painted blue with
penguins on it by a friend of mine. That case
actually become the case of bruehe later. Currently
I do not even remember the naem I gave that box.

    Processor: Pentium 1, 166 Mhz
    Harddisk: 700 MB + 1 GB SCSI (exchanged the 4 GB IDE HD that came with it)
    RAM: around 16 MiB
    Graphics card: ATI with 2 MiB
    CD-ROM: Single speed SCSI with caddy running at triple speed


    * Productive use: ???? - ~2000

### eiche.intern.schottelius.org

Then my father gave me his old computer for present, which was
named **eiche** (oak in English), because it has a big-tower case.

    Processor:       Intel Pentium IV (mostly running at 80 C)


### buche.intern.schottelius.org

**buche** replaced **eiche** on 2006-06-10, because the mainboard
of **eiche** had some problems with the Promise IDE controller.
**buche** should now be the file and backup server for the people
living in our home.

    Processor:     AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, 800Mhz
    RAM:           1152MiB
    Optical drive: DVD-RAM (CD-RW, DVD+/-R/RW)
    NIC:           3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
    IDE:           2x onboard, 4x on Promise PDC20270 (TX4)
    Other:         4x USB2.0, 4xUSB1.1

    * Productive use: at least in 2007

### dosinux.intern.schottelius.org

Midi tower used for gaming. Name is a combination of "dos on unix",
because I used dosbox to run old games on it. The case was
bought from Dicks Computer Dienst, with a blue handle.

### grauerstar.intern.schottelius.org

Nice workstations from HP, a
[[HP J6000|hpJ6000datasheet.pdf]] featured with
a HPPA processsor. I was running it with both Debian and Gentoo.

    Processor:    Dual PA8600 (PCX-W+), 552 Mhz
    HD:           18 GiB SCSI (SCA)

 * Used: ~2006 - ~2008 (unclear)
 * No real productive use, just played around with it.

### grauerklon.intern.schottelius.org

Same machine as grauerstar. Just bought two of them, you never
know how many HPPAs you need, don't you?

### loch.intern.schottelius.org

A fileserver that contains 6x 3.5" HDs.

    Processor: AMD E-350
    RAM: 8GB
    Disk original: 6x1TB (upgraded to 6x6TB over the years)

* Production use: ca. 2012 - now

## Embedded

### zwerg.schottelius.org

My first embedded device to play around with. Data mostly
copied from www.soekris.com:

    266 Mhz NSC SC1100 single chip processor
    256 Mbyte SDRAM, soldered on board
    4 Mbit BIOS/BOOT Flash
    CompactFLASH Type I/II socket
    UltraDMA-33 interface with 44 pins connector for 2.5" Hard Drive
    3 10/100 Mbit Ethernet ports, RJ-45
    2 Serial ports, DB9 and 10 pins header
    USB 1.1 interface
    Power LED, Activity LED, Error LED
    Mini-PCI type III socket. (t.ex for optional hardware encryption.)
    PCI Slot, right angle 3.3V signaling only, dual PCI slot option planned.
    12 bit general purpose I/O, 20 pins header
    Temperature and voltage monitor
    Hardware watchdog
    Board size 5.2" x 5.7"
    Power using external power supply is 6-20V DC, max 15 Watt
    Option for 5V supply using internal connector
    Operating temperature 0-60 °C


### katze.schottelius.org

After a flash of lightning, zwerg died and was replaced by katze,
a Soekris Net5501. Data again mostly copied and edited from Soekris.com:

    500 Mhz AMD Geode LX single chip processor with CS5536 companion chip
    512 Mbyte DDR-SDRAM, soldered on board
    4 Mbit BIOS/BOOT Flash
    CompactFLASH Type I/II socket.
    UltraDMA-100 interface with 44 pins connector for 2.5" Hard Drive
    Serial ATA 1.0 interface for Hard Drive, with +5V and +12V power header
    1-4 VIA VT6105M 10/100 Mbit Auto MDIX Ethernet ports, RJ-45, protected to 700W/40A Surge
    2 Serial ports, DB9 and 10 pins internal header
    USB 2.0 interface, one internal, one external port
    Power LED, Disk LED, Error LED, Network LED's
    Mini-PCI type III socket. (for t.ex. hardware encryption or wireless controller)
    PCI Slot, right angle 3.3V signaling only, dual PCI slot option
    12 bit general purpose I/O, 20 pins header
    Temperature and voltage monitor
    Hardware watchdog
    Board size 6.3" x 6.5"
    Power using external power supply is 6-25V DC, max 20 Watt, protected with TVS
    Option for 5V supply using internal connector
    Operating temperature 0-60 °C


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