On June, 3rd, 2004, at 00:01 UTC, after 10 years and 2 months of faithful service, my first computer, a Gateway2000 P5-90, was shut down for good. The shutdown was performed using the "halt" command as root from tty1. It served it's purpose well through the addition of five hard drives (with four still running at the time of its final shut down), a SCSI card upgrade, five operating systems, three network cards, two hard drive crashes, one tape backup upgrade, one dead CD-ROM drive replacement, one video card upgrade, one or two BIOS upgrades, one modem upgrade, one memory upgrade and one defective processor replacement (Intel divide error). It is survived by a US Robotics Sportster Vi 28.8 modem, an HP Laser Jet 4V printer, a Philips 21" monitor, a Dual processor 500Mhz Pentium III, a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4, and other various network switches, computer speakers, KVM switch, cable modem, two power strips, a mouse and keyboard. It was purchased in April of 1994, for four thousand, two hundred, forty nine US dollars, which was 57.4% more than I paid for my first truck. At that time, it had an Intel 90Mhz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, A 500MB Western Digital Hard drive, a 2X CD-ROM a Colorado memory systems 250MB tape backup, and a Matrox 2MB video card. At shut down it had a divide error free 90Mhz Pentium processor, 72MB of RAM, A 500MB, 1GB, 2.5GB and 6GB IDE hard drive, a 4GB SCSI Tape Drive, An NEC 6X CD-ROM drive, A Matrox 4MB Video Card, and A Soundblaster Sound Card. It was the computer that I used to do much of the programming for my computer science degree. Most recently it was used as a web server for http://cdw.homelinux.com:8088. At one time it was also a mail server and mailing list server. The Intel poster depicting a Pentium processor hanging on my door, will be a daily reminder of the computer that served me for so many years.