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things in the register — 34 machines and 407 parts, 996 photographs between them

6 of them have no portrait yet — 1% of the register, waiting for a camera. A photograph on a history entry does not count: it says what happened to a thing, not which thing this is.

Eight things about it

8 of 121, drawn fresh each time you look — shuffle
Memory sockets
180
on 41 boards, filled or empty
Made this century
69
of the 420 things with a year on them
Ways of attaching a drive
8
in use here: 34-pin floppy, IDE, SATA, MFM…
Things photographed five times or more
44
properly documented, as opposed to merely recorded
Most collected thing
Storage
124 of them
Drives fitted
28
5 of them a Gotek
The usual memory socket
72-pin SIMM
100 of 180 sockets
Cards that never left ISA
117
of 172 with a bus recorded, 68% of them

Makers, by how much of it still works

share recorded as Working, makers with 5+ parts still here

3Com
100%
Creative Labs
100%
Trident
100%
Pine Technology
100%
Polpo
100%
S3
100%
Sony
100%
Western Digital
90%
ATI
88%
Seagate
80%
Intel
75%
Compaq
71%
Teac
70%
Mitsubishi
57%
Tandon
55%
Amstrad
50%
IBM
46%
Mitsumi / Newtronics
38%
Panasonic / Matsushita
38%

Makers, by parts held

the eight best represented

IBM
29
Amstrad
12
Tandon
12
Western Digital
11
Seagate
10
Teac
10
3Com
9
Creative Labs
9

What the parts are

every category in the register

Storage
124
Motherboard
77
Video
64
I/O
50
Sound
38
Network
21
Memory
12
Other
9
Display
6
Peripheral
4
Power supply
2

Expansion buses

slots counted across every board

16-bit ISA
150
8-bit ISA
82
PCI
74
MCA
19
VLB
17
EISA
16

Ports

counted across every card and board

Serial
54
IDE
36
Floppy
34
Parallel
27
USB
14
Game
10

Condition

as recorded, parts only

Working
312
Faulty
30
Untested
29
Partially working
18
For parts/repair
6
Restored
3

Disposed items are left out of every figure but the count of disposals. Every number leads to what it counted.

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