Annie Jump Cannon

Friends of mine are moving out of state this month.  Part of that process was them getting a laptop to replace their desktop as they are moving to a much smaller home.  After they had a downsizing sale this weekend, I helped finalize some things with the laptop, like finally getting their contacts out of Outlook at into GMail.  I've been paid very well over the last couple of years, they gave me the desktop, monitor, a printer and some speakers on top of that.

My "newest" computer is a Gateway DX 4870-UB2U.  A very nice, if older machine.

I decided that I would keep with the current theme of naming my computers after women in science and technology.  Other devices are named after:

Ada Lovelace - programming
Grace Hopper - computers
Emilie du Chatalet - science
Henrietta Leavitt-Smith - astronomy
Hedy Lamarr - communications
Kate Botello - computers and music

Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer at a time when it very difficult for a woman to be in science.  She created one of the ways stars were classified. Her first catalog was published in 1901.  She classified more than 350,000 in her lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon

The computer I named after her is a Gateway DX4870-UB2U.

CPU: Intel Core i3-3240 3.4ghz, 2C/4T. 3MB cache
Memory: 2x 4GB and 2x 2GB DDR3
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB SATA
Video: ATI Radeon 7570 1GB PCIe
Operating System: Mint 18.2 Sonya 64bit

Going to use it for playing Cities Skylines and whatever other games that will run on Linux.
This should be fun.