December Days 2021 #19: Hell in a Cell

[Welcome to December Days, where I natter on about things organized around a theme (sometimes very loosely), one a day, for 31 days. This year, we're taking a look back at some touchpoints along the way of my journey with computing and computing devices.]

• CPU: Cell microprocessor, made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs)


• Memory: 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM + 256 MB GDDR3 RAM clocked at 650 MHz


• Graphics: nVidia RSX "Reality Synthesizer", max resolution 1920x1080 through HDMI output


• Sound: 7.1 digital audio, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, allows bitstreaming of lossless audio codecs to an external receiver through HDMI


• Inputs/Peripherals: Bluetooth-connected motion-sensitive controller (most famously, the DualShock 3) with four shoulder buttons (L1, L2, R1, R2), six face buttons (Square, Circle, Triangle, X, Select, Start), a D-pad, and two analog sticks that could be pressed as buttons as well, Bluetooth-connected motion-sensitive controller (PlayStation Move) with two side buttons, five face buttons, and one trigger, Bluetooth-connected PlayStation Media Remote, PlayStation Eye camera, PlayStation Memory Card Adapter, IEEE 802.11 b/g wireless Internet connection, Gigabit Ethernet port, 2 USB 2.0 ports.


• Storage: 500 GB Hard Disk Drive BD-ROM Blu-ray Media Drive compatible with DVDs


• OS: XMB ("Cross Media Bar")

( The PlayStation 3 )