This machine was rebuilt in October 2004, replacing Chvatal.
Note that there was a predecessor "knuth" running an AMD K6 CPU, as well as a further predecessor that was a Cyrix 150+-based system purchased from Atipa.
The Atipa unit unfortunately suffered from a "motherboard fire." A capacitor on the motherboard approximately an inch away from the CPU caught fire and exploded. The "can" wound up elsewhere in the case, and a significant chunk of the motherboard had melted traces. This left the assortment of peripherals (that did survive the "blaze") without a system to connect to.
I replaced the motherboard with a FIC 2001, CPU with an AMD K6-266, replaced the case, and it provided service until late 2000 as my main machine.
Unfortunately, the power supply fan died, and there was a bit of a heat problem, which resulted in an IDE hard drive sitting at the top of the stack of drives of various sorts overheating severely and burning out.
This led me to removing most of the case, to ensure adequate cooling, and to start to build Chvatal, which has not one, not two, but three case fans. Overheating shouldn't be a problem...
This machine's host name was inspired by Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emiterius of The Art of Computer Programming. His series The Art of Computer Programming is an incredible resource in theoretical computing. (And is of practical importance in designing efficient algorithms.) He created the TeX typesetting system, and has developed the whole concept of Literate Programming, where documentation and software is fundamentally linked together so that you can describe why the program is correct, and compile the program out of that documentation package.
ASUS K8V Motherboard with AMD64 3000+
Antec Sonata case
Which, having rubber components here and there, and quiet fans, was designed, successfully, to be particularly quiet.
ATI Radeon 9200