The Cyrix Computer was a clone computer with a pretty bad hard drive, CPU,
floppy disk drive, and motherboard, but had a pretty good sound card, BIOS, and
CD-ROM drive. It was apparently built in late 1998.

History of the Cyrix Computer

1999 - Pentium PC
2000-2001 - Energy Star PC (or Computer)
2002-2003 - (The) Cyrix (PC or Computer)

Monitor (Old): Tatung Monitor
Monitor (New): Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1572
When Replaced and Why: in summer of 2002, because water was spilled into the
back of the monitor back in early 1999

Speakers (Old): Juster Hi-Fi Stereo Speakers
Speakers (New): AOpen Stereo Speakers
When Replaced and Why: April (Spring Break) 2003, because volume was low even
on max point back in mid-2001

Keyboard (Old): Mitsumi Standard 101-Key Keyboard
Keyboard (New): PC Concepts Standard 101-Key Keyboard (with Standby Buttons)
When Replaced and Why: in mid-1999, because we broke the comma key, and my
younger sister had melting ice over the number pad while I was playing Gravity
Well, and it malfunctioned

Mouse (Old): Standard (Mitsumi) Two-Button Mouse
Mouse (New): Logitech Three-Button Mouse
When Replaced and Why: in March 0f 2000, because it malfunctioned three days in
a row while I was playing Tanktics on the computer (mouse WAS required)

CD-ROM Drive: Lite-On LTN301 (door was broken off in March 2002 and I hot-glued
it together)
Floppy Drive: Mitsumi Floppy Drive
Hard Drive: Caviar 21000, 1 GB (1031 or 1034 MB) Hard Disk Space

Sound: Sound Pro HT1869+ with C-Media CM8330 MIDI Capabilities (Onboard)

CPU (Old): Cyrix M2 (200 MHz)
CPU (New): Cyrix 6x86 (150 MHz)
When Replaced and Why: Saturday, November 9, 2002, because it went out on
Sunday, November 3, 2002, and lost EVERYTHING on that hard drive

Memory: 16MB SDRAM -> Upgraded to 96MB SDRAM

Video Chip: SiS 5598 Chipset (Onboard)

BIOS: American Megatrends BIOS


Information typed up on August 11, 2003
Made corrections on January 14, 2011

Addendum 2011-01-14: Memory [Note from 2003]