Photograph by Petri Kutvonen 2015

[IBM] AMBRA Sprinta 486

This PC (Intel 80486SX @ 25 MHz, 8 Mbytes memory, 100 Mbytes hard disk) was used by Linus Torvalds at the Department of Computer Science 1993-1994 while he was working on the early versions of the Linux kernel. The device is currently on display at the Helsinki University Museum. The PC name “humalluoto” refers (like all PC names at the time at the CS Department) to a small island in Helsinki archipelago.