Shakti

Shakti is my old desktop system. It was originally installed in an Addtronics tower case, but has been relocated to a generic mid-tower case and is currently being used as a testbed for a bunch of old (mostly SCSI) equipment I have lying around. The hardware went through many iterations over the years, but the list below should match what is currently installed.

Shakti replaced my laptop Parvati as my primary computer in September 1999, after I returned from Japan. For the first time, I built the entire system from the ground up. Most of the parts I bought online (see the dreams page for a partial price list), but some things were borrowed from my old desktop(s). [Note: the funny thing about looking at that price list almost 10 years later and comparing it to, say, Core i7 components today, is that the prices are not that different, except for the the high-priced SCSI drives. Obviously the modern components are much more powerful.]

Shakti means "force, power, energy" in Sanskrit. Both Shakti and Parvati are names of Shiva's consort, the Divine Mother in Hinduism. (Thanks to The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion for the above facts.)

Internals

• Intel 500MHz Pentium III (retail boxed)
• Asus P3B-F motherboard
• 768MB PC133 SDRAM (2 x 256MB, 2 x 128MB, various brands)
  (each 256MB module detected as 192MB)
• Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP video card
• Adaptec AHA-2940U2W Ultra2 SCSI controller kit (OEM)
• Quantum Atlas 10K III 18GB 10,000 RPM Ultra2/160 SCSI hard drive
• Quantum Atlas 10K 9GB 10,000 RPM Ultra2/160 SCSI hard drive
• Plextor UltraPleX 40max SCSI CD-ROM drive
• REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD playback card
  (because I used to have a DVD drive installed)
• Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ sound card
• 3Com 3C905C-TX-M 10/100Mbps Ethernet card
• Teac 1.44MB floppy drive

Externals

• Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751 19-inch monitor
• Kinesis Maxim adjustable ergonomic keyboard
  (might be dead; needs testing)
• generic mid-tower case
• PC Power & Cooling Silencer 400W power supply
• Syquest SyJet 1.5GB removable drive
• CH Flightstick Pro
• Eclipse ergonomic computer light

Operating Systems

• System Commander Deluxe 4.0 for running multiple operating systems
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Win98 (for games)
• Microsoft Win95/J (for Japanese games)

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