Spitfire was the name of the desktop I used throughout most of college. Spitfire eventually morphed into Shepherdess which like the Ship of Theseus is now a new machine entirely after having every part replaced over time.

While using the name “spitfire” these were the machine's specs:

• Intel Core i5-4590 CPU
• Radeon 5850 GPU
• 8GiB RAM
• 1TiB HDD
• HAF 912 case
• 2 Dell 4:3 monitors (2560x1024)
• Unicomp PC 122 Buckling Spring “Model M” keyboard

Aside: my first step into cryptocurrency was mining Dogecoin with that beast of a GPU in January 2014. I donated my first bag of coins to the Jamaican bobsled team and the NASCAR sponsporship.

Software workflow on this machine involved the following programs:

• Gentoo Linux
• dwm as an X11 window manager
• urxvt as a terminal emulator
• JoE (Joe's Own Editor) as text editor
• mpd + ncmpc for playing music through Pulseaudio