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The Lab

by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 25, 2003 6:26 PM EST


So I've been mentioning "The Lab" in the past couple of updates and have received a decent number of requests for pictures of it. First, let me give you a little background on what the lab is, where it is going and where it has been.

I started AT out of the smallest bedroom possible, after the first couple of years it became clear that the bedroom wasn't going to cut it anymore. I was around 17 or 18 at the time so still living with the parents, we ended up moving into a larger place and they gave me the bonus room to convert into what became known as "The Lab." All this time we've been working on building a new building - just for AnandTech - in Morrisville, NC, but that's taking its sweet time thanks to the usual setbacks associated with construction and unpredictable weather. At the end of July I finally moved out into my first house (which was an experience itself) and now the old Lab is where all the hardware remains. It's mostly an attempt to somewhat separate my personal life from my AT life; so the lab will remain at the old house until the building in Morrisville is ready, who knows how long that will take...

The Lab is definitely a mess, imagine tons of Radeon 9x00s, GeForce FXs and motherboards littered everywhere. There's a drawer full of CPUs and then there's another one full of CPUs we don't use as much anymore. Then there's the massive memory drawer, mostly for server testing. Let's not get into the attic, which has the first ~200 motherboards I ever personally reviewed as well as other random hardware. To top it all off however, my first computer is in The Lab - an Apple IIe; I used to play digdug all the time on that thing.

In other news, it seems that I should've checked my alarm clock to make sure that I had actually set it properly after Isabel hit - I managed to miss that 8AM class...oops...shoulda stayed up benchmarking longer :) Derek and I managed to get some good work done yesterday and some more today during my mid-day break. Later tonight we'll probably hit The Lab again and hopefully we'll be able to finish up the new test suite by Sunday. Right now I'm starving and I've got a ton on my plate, so until next time...

Take care

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