Dozerfleet Labs equipment specs

In Ride of the Three Bulldozers, Ivan's quest is to reclaim the village of Veskinsya from tyrannical oligarchs by starting a public revolt. He does this after he'd been exiled to live in the forests outside of town. He and his revolutionaries raided a construction equipment yard, and made off with several vehicles to use in the place of the tanks which the oligarchs did not yet have.

Every major operating station of Dozerfleet Productions, therefore also part of the equipment of Dozerfleet Labs, is considered another vehicle in the "fleet" that makes of Dozerfleet.

More hardware and equipment is considered part of Dozerfleet Labs than just the PCs, but the PCs and other items with an operating system are the "bulldozers."

Dozerfleet Main
When nothing else will do, the large desktop PC at the Grand Ledge House is Dozerfleet Main. The honors of this title are currently bestowed on an HP Pavilion p6540y from 2010. This was purchased from the Northville Twp., MI Best Buy store in September of 2010. It comes with an LG monitor that has a native screen resolution of 1920x1080.


 * Accessories
 * Keyboard and mouse combo, with SAI mousepad.
 * Headphones
 * OS: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit, Service Pack 1
 * Hardware
 * Storage: 1 TB
 * File system: NTFS
 * RAM: 8 GB
 * Video: 3 GB VRAM ATI RS880 w/ DirectX 11
 * Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio
 * Noteworthy software
 * Adobe Creative Suite 2, Educational Edition
 * Photoshop CS2
 * Illustrator CS2
 * Premiere Pro 2.0
 * After Effects 7.0
 * Encore DVD 2.0
 * Audition 2.0
 * Adobe Reader X
 * Microsoft Office 2007 (Educational): Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher
 * Audacity
 * IcoFx
 * AniFx
 * Mozilla Firefox 10
 * Google Chrome
 * Apple Safari
 * Mozilla Songbird
 * Calibre
 * Celtx
 * Skype
 * MakeHuman
 * Noteworthy games
 * The Sims 2
 * University
 * Nightlife
 * Open For Business
 * Pets
 * Seasons
 * Bon Voyage
 * Free Time
 * Apartment Life
 * The Sims 3
 * World Adventures
 * High End Loft
 * Ambitions
 * Fast Lane
 * Late Night
 * Generations
 * Pets
 * The Movies

Dozerfleet Portable
For times when more horsepower is required to get the task done than is possible with Dozerfleet Compact, and when more mobility is required than Dozerfleet Main allows. Long nights at the library or elsewhere call for an actual laptop, and Dozerfleet Portable is ready to oblige. The laptop currently holding the designation of Dozerfleet Portable is a Dell Inspiron 6000 from model year 2004, the popular model with an Arctic silver finish and alpine white trim. Dozerfleet Portable is also ideal for long road trips when staying in a hotel or friend's house, as it allows a lot of the same tasks to be done that would normally be done on Dozerfleet Main. But is much easier to pack up and take along.


 * Accessories
 * 2 mice, including a wireless mouse
 * Chill hub
 * Headphones
 * OS: Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3
 * Hardware
 * Storage: 80 GB
 * File system: NTFS
 * RAM: 1.2 GB
 * Video: 32MB VRAM Intel GMLS910 chipset w/ DirectX 9.0
 * Sound: Sigma-Tel C Major Audio
 * Noteworthy software
 * Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
 * Adobe Reader X
 * Microsoft Office 2007 (Educational): Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher
 * Inkscape
 * IcoFx
 * AniFx
 * Mozilla Firefox 10
 * Google Chrome
 * Apple Safari
 * Mozilla Songbird

Dozerfleet Compact
The pending on-the-go tablet PC for Dozerfleet Productions operations. Will most likely be a Nook Tablet. This unit will become the most-used for making trips around town, or for hanging out in bookstores or coffee shops. Also most useful for reading late at night or web browsing without having to move furniture around. Can be used to get directions when driving to unknown places. Will likely eventually contain the entire series of Stationery Voyagers in EPUB format, unless PDF transfers work out.

Dozerfleet Mobile
This is the Dozerfleet founder's cell phone, which is currently a Sprint Sanyo Katana from 2009. It allows texting and calls, has a very basic address book, and does little else.

Camera
The current camera used primarily by the Dozerfleet founder is a Nikon P60. Other cameras are used as available/necessary.

Vehicles
Since 2003, the Dozerfleet founder's primary means of transportation is a blue 1997 Chevrolet Lumina LS. From 2001-2003, he'd previously driven a pewter-gray 1994 Saturn SL1. Sometimes, special events call for borrowing one of the family's vehicles. This is usually a dark blue Dodge Grand Caravan.

Miscellaneous
Additional equipment includes the following:

PCs
The first ever PC to be "owned" by the Dozerfleet founder was an IBM laptop PC, one that ran DOS and had a word processor on it named NewWord. The screen was monochrome, and the hard drive was small enough that it made more sense to store written works on a floppy disk. This was soon replaced with a Compaq Presario Model 5528, which ran Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works. This was the de facto standard until about 2000, when the Dozerfleet founder inherited a Dell desktop from his uncle. That desktop contained about 48 MB of RAM and ran Windows 98 SE. It had a tape drive, one which proved to be pretty much useless.

The next PC to gain the designation of Dozerfleet Main was an HP Pavillion 8700 from model year 2000. That device contained, at its peak, 384 MB of RAM and a video card capable of 16 MB of VRAM. The hard drive contained 80 GB of storage. It started out with containing Windows 98 SE, but was upgraded to Windows XP Professional in the spring of 2004. Its power supply eventually went bad, resulting in the entire thing being salvaged for parts.

Cameras
The first ever camera that the Dozerfleet founder owned lasted from 1992-2001, when its gears were finally worn out and its power center went bad. It was a very simple film camera, designed to take up to a max of 36 pictures on a single reel of film. It was replaced with a 1970's model manual SLR Nikkormat, which was used to gather a lot of the footage that would later be digitized for Gored By Them Things.

In 2002, the Dozerfleet founder purchased a Fujifilm FinePix 2650 digital camera. It lasted until October of 2006, when the software inside suffered a complete meltdown and rendered the camera useless. It came with an XD card capable of storing 16MB worth of digital images. It would later be replaced with the current Nikon P60.