While working on a piece, I made a list of every computer I’ve owned or used regularly. I thought that we be 5-6, but the list kept growing and is not at 18.
| YEAR | MAKE/MODEL | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1988-96 | Apple IIGS | Used in elementary and middle school, mostly to play Number Munchers and Oregon Trail |
| 1994-96 | 486 of some kind | Used at home for DOS games (didn't really know how to do anything else) |
| 1996-98 | Compaq Presario 5140 | Used at home, used for games, going on AOL, graphics programs - all with that distinctive power/sleep button |
| 1998-2000 | Some kind of eMachines desktop | Used at home for games, going on the real internet, using a cracked version of Corel Draw that Steve gave me, building webistes using hand-written HTML and launching on Tripod |
| 2000-2004 | Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) | Used at college (I'm pretty sure this is the kind we had), used mostly for Photoshop, Illustrator, and writing papers |
| 2002-2004 | Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop | Used while in college (passed down from my dad's office), recorded some crappy little songs using the built-in sound recording app and a plastic mic |
| 2004-2006 | Gateway laptop (still unidentified) | Also used in late college and in early grad school, used for recording music on a cracked version of Cakewalk, making art using cracked versions of all kinds of software |
| 2006-2009 | Mac PowerBook 12" laptop | Used during grad school and after for EVERYTHING, mostly on cracked software, too :) |
| 2009-11 | iPhone 3GS | My first smartphone, bought after I lost the charger to my crappy cellphone, played lots of Scrabble on this |
| 2009-13 | MacBook Pro 15" (2x) | Used at first teaching job with NO cracked software! (2 different computers of the same model) |
| 2011-13 | iPhone 4 | Replaced my previous smartphone, donated the old one to Angeles, played lots of Angry Birds on this |
| 2012-present | Raspberry Pi Model B | Bought very early on, now runs all my bots |
| 2013-prese | Nexus 10 tablet | Bought using a grant, mostly to run Processing sketches |
| 2013-present | MacBook Pro 15" w Retina Display | Current workhorse |
| 2014-present | Mac Mini | Also bought using a grant, mostly for installations (and formerly for and running bots) |
| 2014-present | iPhone 5s | Current smartphone, mostly use for email and directions/maps |
* A note: by computer I mean anything that can do significant processing, like a smartphone, not anything that does computation or runs programs. I’m also excluding computers that I’ve used but don’t work here, like supercomputers :)
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