Past Setups

Over the years I have had many different systems for my primary machine. This page honors a small selection of those past machines.

MadSci-Mobile v2 (2013) – Notebook Computer

2013 – 2024 (Retirement)

• Toshiba C855D-S5116 Notebook Computer
  • AMD A6-4400M APU @ 2.7GHz Dual-Core
  • 12 GB DDR3-1600 Memory (Upgraded from 4 GB)
  • 500 GB Toshiba Hard Drive, 5.4K RPM
  • Integrated AMD Radeon HD 7520G
  • Drives
    • Combo Drive (DVD/CD Burner)
  • Displays (Triple Monitor Setup – FTW)
    • Primary: Dell S2418HN 24″ IPS LED-LCD Display @ 1080P (16:9)
    • Samsung XL2270 20″ LCD Display @ 1080P (16:9)
    • Integrated: 15.4″ LED-LCD Display @ 720P (16:9)
  • Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 – Wired
  • Logitech Marathon Mouse (M705) – Wireless

Software

Operating System: Windows 8 Windows 10

Browsers

• 
  Firefox*
• 
  Firefox Dev
• 
  Chrome
• 
  Chrome Canary
• Opera

Browser Addons

• uBlock Origin
• Multi-Account Containers
• JSONView
• ColorZilla

Office Suite

• Microsoft Office
• GSuite

Coding & Development

Editors

• Sublime Text*
• VIM

Dev Tools & Utilities

• GIT-SCM
• XAMMP
• PuTTY
• Cmder
• HeidiSQL
• DB Brwoser
• Postman
• FileZilla

Languages & Frameworks

• PHP
• Laravel
• WordPress
• Ruby
• Rails
• Node.js

Virtual Environments

• VMWare Workstation
• VirtualBox

Graphic Design

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Adobe Acrobat

Productivity

• G-Suite
• Dropbox
• Skype
• 1Password
• OBS Studio
• TeamViewer
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• RescueTime
• Pi-Hole

Business Software

• Invoice Ninja
• Highrise CRM
• QuickBook Pro

Entertainment

• VLC Player
• iTunes

Web Services

• Google Services
• Pandora Radio
• DigitalOcean
• NameCheap
• CloudFlare
• AWS: Amazon Web Services
• And So Many Others…

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Mad Scientist Special v2 (2007)

This computer was designed fall 2006 and assembled in winter 2006. Mad Scientist v2 was in service between January 2007 – August 2013. This machine had a long and difficult life – starting with bad system memory for most of its life and ending with a dead motherboard failing POST/BIOS.

Update November 2023: I found that this machine is not dead, yet. I found the cause of the failed POST was caused by a DEAD BIOS BATTERY!!? However, due to electrical cost the machine is no longer usable – 120 Watts at BIOS.

Hardware

Mad Scientist Special v2 (2007) – Custom Designed and Built Computer

• Antec New Solution NSK6500 & Antec 430 watt Power Supply
• ECS EliteGroup KA3 MVP Extreme
• AMD Athlon X2 4200+ Windsor @ 2.2GHz
• 4 GB DDR2-800 Memory
• 750 GB Total Disk Storage
  • Seagate 250 GB SATA2
  • Seagate 500 GB SATA2
• Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro – 512MB GDDR2
• Drives
  • Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD Burner)
  • DVD Burner
  • Flash Memory Card Reader
• ViewSonic VG2021 20″ LCD Display Planar PL1700 17″ LCD Display
• Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 – Wired
• Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 – Wired

Software

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Vista: Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

Browsers

• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Opera
• Safari

Editors

• SubLime Text 2
• PSPad
• Markdown Pad
• VIM

Graphic Design

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Flash

Productivity

• GIT-SCM
• XAMMP
• PuTTY
• 1Password

Languages

• PHP
• Ruby
• Rails

Utilities

• FileZilla
• Dropbox
• Messenger
• Skype
• Adobe Acrobat

Entertainment

• VLC Player
• iTunes
• Winamp

Web Services

• Google Services
• Pandora Radio
• (mt) MediaTemple
• And So Many Others…

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Mac

This is my first Mac computer which I purchased from eBay for learning about Mac OS X.

Hardware

• eMac (April 2004)
  • PowerPC G4 1.25GHz
  • 2GB PC-2700
  • ATI Radeon 9200, 32MB
  • 80 GB Hard Drive
  • AirPort
  • Combo Drive
  • Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”

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Mobile Mad Scientist (2003)

My first notebook computer and machine I used full time between Mad Scientist v1/1.5 and Mad Scientist v2.

Hardware

• HP Pavilion
• AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
• 256 MB System Memory
• 40 GB Hard Drive
• Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional

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Mad Scientist Special v1 (2001)

This was my first custom built machine, after the initial build I did a partial upgrade about 18 months. This partial upgrade is reflected below as item either upgraded or added. Mad Scientist v1/1.5 was in service between Winter 2001 – Approx 2005, and its service was ended by an Registry Hive Corruption.

Hardware

• Generic Black Case RAIDMax Blue Case with Slide Panel Window
• XFX Mainboard
• AMD Althon XP 1700+, Massive CPU Cooler Ugprade
• XFX nVidia GeForce3 64MB Video Card
• 256 MB DDR, Upgraded to 1.25 GB
• Seagate 7200RPM 40GB, Added Samsung 7200RPM 160GB Hard Drive
• CD Burner
• DVD Burner added later
• 17″ Proview CRT Monitor
• Windows 2000 Professional

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I have left some lower level applications and services out for brevity, the full list would take days to write.

Last Updated: October 2013