Machines at home
When I've got some spare time, I quite like playing with slightly
obsolete computers.
- mirkwood
-
Duron 1.2GHz, 512MB RAM, on KR7A-RAID motherboard. Fast network
interface, Lots of drives, incl CD-RW. Runs NetBSD -current.
Has a 160GB RAID-1 for safe(r) storage using the HPT372 on the
motherboard and NetBSD's RAIDframe.
- imladris
-
iBook G3 600MHz, 384MB RAM. Middle-aged version of the
12.1" white iBook. Runs MacOS X (in principle, I planned
to put NetBSD on it, too; but actually, OS X is pretty neat).
Fairly well travelled.
- lorien
-
Pentium 166 on an elderly motherboard; runs NetBSD 1.6.2 and is
our firewall/gateway. Rebuilt after it's K6-2 motherboard blew up
a few years ago. It's now got its original motherboard back, but
not the K6/166 that went with it; turns out the chip had the
infamous K6 bug and it won't play with more than 32MB of RAM.
- caradhras
-
Sparc SLC ('super low cost', no kidding) - a monochrome, diskless,
netbooting sparc4-based machine. The NVRAM battery is dead, so
you tap in half a dozen OpenBoot lines to get it to start up; but
otherwise it makes a great X11 terminal. Runs at 16MHz, if I
recall correctly. This machine was a donation from Rob Pearce.
- susan
-
386SX with 4MB RAM, running a seriously manhandled version of
Slackware linux. After several years of disuse, susan was
revived as a terminal for Tim Cooper to write history papers on.
I tried to rename it to fit with the (fairly obvious) naming
scheme the other machines use; but it didn't stick.
- erelas
-
Toshiba T1910 laptop - 486 with 8MB RAM. Physically smaller
(although heavier) than the iBook, with a 200MB hard drive, and
one of the nicest laptop keyboards I've used. Runs NetBSD 1.5,
and used mostly as a second terminal on my desk (it's small enough
to fit fairly unobtrusively at the back) or occasonally for
network diagnostic type things.
- greenway
-
iMac 333; green, strangely enough. Installing NetBSD on it was
fun, but we still use MacOS 9 on it some of the time. It sits in
our lounge and runs Realplayer for news programmes.
- ithilien
-
eMac 1GHz. It runs OS X 10.3 and is used largely to running
ProTools 6.4 for digital multitracking and some MIDI things.
My first machine was an Olivetti M24; I think it's still in a loft
somewhere.
Sarah has a blue single-USB iBook, running MacOS 9. It's called
bluebottle.
Work machines
I use lots of different systems at work, mostly suns of varying age
and power. The machines I care about are:
- durandal
-
Sparc Ultra10 - 450MHz Sparc64 processor, 768MB RAM. Originally
used mostly by Andreas for image processing and neural net stuff;
I sometimes use it for reconstruction jobs.
- anduin
-
Dual Intel P3-Coppermine/1GHz with 1GB dual-channel RAMBUS. Goes
pretty fast really. Runs NetBSD-current with sommerfeld_i386mp_1
branch patches. Used for image processing and reconstruction.
- mrweb
-
Elderly dell P3 450 refitted with a 120G Seagate and a completely
gratuitous 512MB of memory to run the MR groups website and
resources server. Turns out to be the most solid and stable
machine around.
- hydra
-
Cluster: 6 rackmount machines, each with dual P4-Xeon 2GHz and 2GB
DDR. It's got some nice SCSI disks, GB ethernet backplane, and is
generally rather quick. Still haven't had time to do snazzy MPI
things with it and my image reconstruction code yet.
|
