Dozerfleet Labs equipment specs

The following is a list of equipment items that make up the core of Dozerfleet Labs, and keep much of the entire Dozerfleet enterprise running.

Dozerfleet Main
When nothing else will do, the large desktop PC is Dozerfleet Main. The honors of this title are currently bestowed on a Dell Inspiron 3650 from 2016, purchased at the Wal-Mart of Marketplace Blvd. not far from Grand Ledge, MI. Before that, the honor was bestowed on an HP Pavilion p6540y from 2010, purchased from the Northville Township, Michigan Best Buy store in September of 2010. That unit operated with an LG monitor that had a native screen resolution of 1920x1080. This monitor was later replaced with an Onn unit from Wal-Mart.

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 * 1 TB
 * NTFS
 * 16 GB
 * 128 MB VRAM Intel HD Graphics 530 Chipset, 4.2 GB total memory
 * 12
 * Realtek High Definition Audio
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 * -|Noteworthy games=
 * The Sims 2 + all add-ons
 * The Sims 3 + most add-ons
 * The Sims 4 + most add-ons
 * Universe Sandbox
 * Spore
 * SimCity 4
 * SimCity 2013
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Dozerfleet Portable
For times when more horsepower is required to get the task done than is possible with Dozerfleet Ultra Portable, and when more mobility is required than Dozerfleet Main allows, there is usually a Dozerfleet Portable. Dozerfleet Portable will only assume the title of "Dozerfleet Main" if there is no tower to serve that purpose instead.

Long nights at the library or elsewhere call for an actual laptop, and Dozerfleet Portable is a laptop ready to oblige. The laptop that most recently held the designation of Dozerfleet Portable was a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 Series 2-in-1 laptop/tablet, ca. late 2014 design and purchased in March of 2015. It became the replacement for the Dell Inspiron 6000 from model year 2004, the popular model with an Arctic silver finish and alpine white trim, which had previously been used as Dozerfleet Portable.

Dozerfleet Portable was also ideal for long road trips when staying in a hotel or friend's house, as it allowed a lot of the same tasks to be done that would normally be done on Dozerfleet Main. But was much easier to pack up and take along. As of February of 2021, Dozerfleet Portable remains a statutory designation. The device to most recently hold that title had been sold to a family near the Lansing area for only $60. It was replaced with Dozerfleet Mega Portable.

Dozerfleet Mega Portable
In late December of 2020, Dozerfleet won a prize at Meijer, resulting in acquisition of a Microsoft Surface Go 2 unit. This "Mega Portable" became a replacement for the aging and fading then-current Dozerfleet Portable. However, its small drive space meant it would be inadequate for long-term file storage of heavy-duty imagery on Dozerfleet Main. External storage of images and video would prove a must, as basic software for editing operations would need to be prioritized.

The plus to this unit, however, was its emphasis on small size, long battery life, and ability to upgrade to Windows 11.


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Dozerfleet Ultra Portable
This unit is second-most-used for making trips around town, or for hanging out in bookstores or coffee shops, as it can do things that would be much more difficult to pull off with a smartphone, while also being more compact and with longer battery life than either Dozerfleet Portable or Dozerfleet Mega Portable. 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. The e-reader that was ultimately given this assignment was an Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7" tablet from 2014. A Nook Tablet was in consideration for quite some time for the designation of Dozerfleet Ultra Portable (formerly "Dozerfleet Compact.")

The current notable specs for software and apps on Dozerfleet Ultra Portable include:

Dozerfleet Mobile
Dozerfleet Mobile refers to the Dozerfleet founder's current phone, whichever that may be. In 2009, a Sprint Sanyo Katana held that designation, and would continue to until 2012. Two different TracPhones took over in short succession of one another in 2014. On February 9th of 2016, a Droid phone by Motorola was repurposed on a Verizon plan to take over for the TracPhones, as a way to save up to $50 a month.

That Droid phone died later in 2016, to be replaced by another Droid. When that Droid also died, it was replaced in 2017 by a Samsung Galaxy J3. Said J3 would remain as Dozerfleet Mobile until June of 2021, when it was demoted to Dozerfleet Backup Mobile. The new Dozerfleet Mobile after that was a Google Pixel 4A 5G unit, purchased at the Verizon Store of The Villages in Florida.

Camera
The most recent camera used primarily by the Dozerfleet founder is a Canon PowerShot ELPH 135. This in 2014 replaced its defunct predecessor, a Nikon Coolpix P60. Other cameras were 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:

PC towers
The first proper desktop and second-ever PC to be possessed by Dozerfleet was 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 on a 1.2 GB hard drive in a FAT32 format. It had a tape drive, one which proved to be fairly 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.

Laptops
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 its hard drive was small enough that it made more sense to store written works to floppy disks. The Compaq proved its eventual replacement. In late 2014, a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop that was once Dozerfleet Portable began experiencing severe hardware problems. The hard drive was eventually removed, and the laptop itself was sent to Staples for recycling. Its successor, the Dell 2-in-1 mentioned above, was later sold to a needy family.

Notable external drives
Of the two external hard drives that were in use since Ferris State: the Buffalo 500GB and LaCie 250 GB, both eventually gave out. The Buffalo drive suffered a head crash in February of 2016, and was sent to Staples for recycling - along with several old printers. Also dropped off there for recycling were some old software CDs - including a 2-disc set for installing Microsoft Office 2000. On that same day, a CRT television was donated to Dicker and Deal, and a PlayStation 2 game of Rock Band II was sold to DiscTraders. Likewise, the Sims 2 games that were used to create Test Gerosha, Gerosha Prime, Despair Gerosha, Classic Gerosha, and the initial concept art for Q-Basic Gorillas were all donated to Goodwill in February of 2016, nearly ending all connection between Dozerfleet and The Sims 2.

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 a Nikon P60, which suffered its own general hardware failure around 6:10 PM EST of Saturday, November 17th of 2012. The camera would be replaced in November of 2014 by a Canon PowerShot ELPH 135.