• A heavily nicotine stained old Altos 1000 that's been knocking around someone's office since the eighties
• My old Camputers Lynx, with 96k of ram, a good chunk of which is taken up with the built in database, in my case populated with a random assortment of unrelated and largely useless information

• A highly experimental and unstable neural network cobbled together out of whatever bits were lying around the lab, that has mysteriously developed reflexive self awareness and set out to dominate the world.....

.oO(Oops, I think I gave myself away. Bwahahahahaha!)

Just in case he doesn't respond I will answer for Tye

I would be Zark, the supercomputer from Tron.

Apple ][e, with a bumper sticker on the monitor, "My other computer is a VAX".

Nothing sucks like a Vax.

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.oO (If hok's building a social links site for automatons, why would it be in English?)

That was my Osborne-1 talking to my PDP 11/23.

Hmmm...I guess I'd have to be a ENIAC I because I'm power hungry, and just not that good at binary math. Base-10 computing for me!

I would be a rather speedy machine...

...with insufficent cooling on my CPU, and a tendency for the high address lines to memory to be flakey, thereby making me only be able to access 8MB of RAM, and for my south bridge to go south pretty randomly, leaving me unable to communicate effectively.

Still got that floppydrive btw, never know when I might feel like playing Police Quest 1 again

<description style="geek" source="self" destination="computer">
A 486DX running DOS 6.2
but someday I'd like to say
A pair of supercooled, quantum-entangled calcium ions.
</description>
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Toggle in the address byte, toggle in the data byte, hit load. Repeat infinity - n times. Doing this allowed you to handle important jobs like playing music through an AM radio placed on top of the computer. The music was created by the RFI generated circuitry as the program executed.

Every now and then it hits me just how far we've come since I was in High School.

A TRS-80 Model I, upgraded to 16K (yes K) RAM and Level II BASIC.

For my birthday, please send me the highest quality cassette tapes money can buy, so after 20 minutes of loading a program it'd actually run...

Oh yeah :)

Old thread, but the //c would be me as well - foshure. Only three programs would be needed - Ultima IV, the edasm macro assembler and the Beagle Bros Bag of Tricks :)

Oh, and maybe Choplifter and Moon Patrol

I'd just be a terminal without an actual cpu that keeps printing garbage.

• Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors
• 4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM
• 80 GB S-ATA hard disk drive
• One Mellanox Cougar InfiniBand 4x HCA

• Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors
• 4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM
• 3x250 GB S-ATA hard disk drive

/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire 6800
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 8192 Megabytes

========================= CPUs =======================================
+========

            Port  Run    E$   CPU      CPU 
FRU Name     ID   MHz    MB   Impl.    Mask
----------  ----  ----  ----  -------  ----
/N0/SB0/P0    0   1050   8.0  US-III+  2.3   
/N0/SB0/P1    1   1050   8.0  US-III+  2.3   
/N0/SB0/P2    2   1050   8.0  US-III+  2.3   
/N0/SB0/P3    3   1050   8.0  US-III+  2.3   

========================= Memory Configuration =======================
+========

                     Logical  Logical  Logical 
               Port  Bank     Bank     Bank         DIMM    Interleave
+  Interleave
FRU Name        ID   Num      Size     Status       Size    Factor    
+  Segment
-------------  ----  ----     ------   -----------  ------  ----------
+  ----------
/N0/SB0/P0/B0    0    0      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P0/B0    0    2      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P1/B0    1    0      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P1/B0    1    2      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P2/B0    2    0      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P2/B0    2    2      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P3/B0    3    0      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0
/N0/SB0/P3/B0    3    2      1024MB    pass          512MB     8-way  
+     0

========================= IO Cards =========================

                                Bus  Max                              
+                
            IO   Port Bus       Freq Bus  Dev,                        
+                
FRU Name    Type  ID  Side Slot MHz  Freq Func State Name             
+                 Model
----------  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -----------------
+---------------  ----------------------
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  1,0  ok    pci-pci1011,25.4/
+pci108e,1000     pci-bridge            
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  0,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci1
+08e,1000.1                             
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  0,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,
+1001             SUNW,pci-qfe          
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  1,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci1
+08e,1000.1                             
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  1,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,
+1001             SUNW,pci-qfe          
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  2,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci1
+08e,1000.1                             
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  2,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,
+1001             SUNW,pci-qfe          
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  3,0  ok    pci108e,1000-pci1
+08e,1000.1                             
/N0/IB9/P0  PCI   30   B    0    33   33  3,1  ok    SUNW,qfe-pci108e,
+1001             SUNW,pci-qfe          
/N0/IB9/P1  PCI   31   B    5    33   33  2,0  ok    scsi-glm/disk (bl
+ock)             Symbios,53C875        
/N0/IB9/P1  PCI   31   B    5    33   33  2,1  ok    scsi-glm/disk (bl
+ock)             Symbios,53C875        

========================= Active Boards for Domain ===================
+========

          Power  Fault  HotPlug  Board  
FRU Name   LED    LED     LED    Cond.  
--------  -----  -----  -------  -------
/N0/SB0   on     off    off      ok       
/N0/IB9   on     off    off      ok       

========================= Available Boards/Slots for Domain ==========
+========

          Power  Fault  HotPlug  Board/Slot  Board/Slot
FRU Name   LED    LED     LED    Condition   Assigned
--------  -----  -----  -------  ----------  ----------
/SB1      on     off    off      ok          no  

========================= Hardware Failures ==========================
+========
No Hardware failures found in System
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I think I'll like to be some organic, highly parallellized problem solving engine. With some sort of sensing devices and a very user-friendly in- and output mechanism, I guess something like voice & gesture. Capable of multitasking, good at co-operation, self-healing, and able to operate in all sorts of environments.

Oh, wait...

Well ... comming from the east, being born in 1975, ... I must be some kind of JSEP or SMEP mainframe (soviet copies of some IBM and DEC computers I believe.) Something made of five inches thick steel plates that sometimes even maybe computes something. Strange I never felt heavy ...