I develop a lot of applications for use with the Internet. Cross compatibility issues are a big concern when developing these applications. In addition my news service requires certain equipment, e.g. cameras, scanners, etc. I have at my disposal the following hardware tools:
| Hardware | Use | Notes |
| Pentium class 233 MHz Desktop Windows 98 PC | Application development, graphics | Old and reliable, completely rebuilt, provides a hardware platform for me to tinker with... |
| Pentium class 500 MHz Desktop Windows 98 PC | Development, testing | Newer |
| Pentium class 800 MHz Notebook Windows XP | Testing | Newer |
| Macintosh 1 GHz Desktop G4 PPC OS X | Cross compatibility testing, some development, more and more graphics, on the fly updates. I make quite a bit of use of the underlying OS provided by this platform (tcsh shell). | Recently installed an additional 512MB of memory |
| HP Laserjet 4 Plus Printer | Heavy duty printing | Old and reliable workhorse |
| HP Inkjet Color Printer | color printing | - |
| HP Inkjet Color Printer | color printing | - |
| HP Inkjet Color Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier | color printing, faxing, etc. | - |
| Brother Fax Machine | black and white copying, faxing | - |
| HP 5100 Scanner | color reproductions | Great older scanner |
| Olympus Digital Camera | Image work | Low resolution - used mostly for Internet work - great camera |
| Sony Digital Video Camera | Image work/video, video conferencing | great video camera |
| Nikon 35mm Camera | Image work (detail) | No dark room so minimal use. |
My tools are not the latest, but I have some great older pieces that I rely on and upgrade whenever the opportunity presents itself. Next time I will discuss my software tools...
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