Desktops in 2018
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There were some changes in my desktop computing.

The main desktop is still the SGI O2 (CPU: MIPS R10000 @250 MHz, RAM: 1
GB, HDD:  32 GB, IRIX 6.5.27).  The only change was  increasing list of
WWW servers  which cannot be  accessed from this computer  because they
switched  to  HTTPS  and  use CPU-intensive  (or  too  new)  encryption
protocols. The rest works as always (Vim, LaTeX, XFig, Gimp, OpenGL 1.1
stuff).

I used the Lenovo X61s as a  secondary desktop (well, to browse the WWW
and to  connect USB  devices) but  I have  had to  replace it  with the
ODROID ARM-based  desktop. It is 32bit  machine with 2 GB  of RAM which
have introduced some unexpected problems  (there is no 32bit Firefox so
I have to  use Chromnium) and there are issues  not only with graphical
Links browser (it does  not work) but also with colors  in teh Gimp and
with icons on  the LibreOffice (they re invisible). But  it is a device
for WWW which works enough (so far). It runs the Ubuntu MATE 16.04.

With unusual luck I have got a  IBM IntelliStation 285 near for free. I
have expected to used it more but it  is not so easy to configure it to
fit my needs. But it has 2 POWER5+  CPU cores which is not bad. It have
3 HDDs  (one with  the AIX, one  with Linux and  one unused).  I should
manage the 3rd one  to be a place for data. The  problem of this device
is its 8 GB of RAM. I thought that it is enough but I needed to do some
computations which  required more... Anyway  it is probably  my fastest
computer.

Sometimes I use my SGI IRIS Indigo (33 MHz MIPS CPU, 96 MB of RAM, IRIX
5.3)  just to  browse Gopherspace  or  to write  something with  little
distraction (it can  access the outside world only via  gopher, ftp and
plain old  http). I developed  a habit to  use the Indigo  on Saturdays
instead of the O2.