Yukon
| Yukon | |
|---|---|
| Class | Notebook |
| Owner | Jaeger |
| Active | September 1997-2002 |
| Processor | 50 MHz 486 DX2 |
| Memory | 24 megs |
| Disk | 500 megs |
| Operating System |
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Yukon was Jaeger's first notebook computer, serving from September 1997 until being retired in August 2004.
- Yukon in PH409, August 1999.
Specs
Yukon had a 50 MHz 486 DX2 processor with something like 24 megs of ram and, if I recall properly, a 500 megabyte hard drive. None of these specs were entirely out of line for 1997. Yukon was very small; it had an external floppy drive and no CD-ROM drive.
Name
Yukon was named after the Deep Space Nine shuttlecraft Yukon, which was named after the river in Canada.
History
Jaeger acquired Yukon from a fellow Fairview student in September 1997 and quickly began journaling regularly. At the time, Yukon ran Windows 95; for several months, Jaeger amused himself during his off periods by playing Civilization II. In June 1998, Jaeger got a Suse Linux CD from BLUG and installed Linux the very next day. This involved a network install using boot floppies, as Yukon had an external floppy drive that connected using the parallel port and no CD-ROM drive. Yukon dual-booted until January 1999, when Jaeger installed Debian.
Jaeger used Yukon regularly through college, but Yukon began to show its age by Jaeger's senior year. In November 2001, as Jaeger and his sister (occasionally known as "The Slayer") returned to Walla Walla College after Thanksgiving, Jaeger was riding in the front seat preparing to type a journal entry when the vehicle slid off the road and flipped. The car was totaled. Yukon fared slightly better, despite being caked in mud.
Jaeger carefully washed the computer took off its keyboard to wash the keys individually. The computer continued to function; however, the space bar was lost in the crash, so Jaeger fashioned a replacement space bar from a plastic fork handle from cafeteria take-out.
Yukon fell out of favor after Jaeger graduated from college and moved back into his parents' basement. Jaeger finally retired Yukon in August 2004 [1]. Yukon was replaced by Elssbett in July 2004.
Records
On 13 October 1999, Yukon set its uptime record at 49 days, 22 hours, 6 minutes, and 36 seconds.
