These are the machines owned or part-owned, roughly speaking, by myself.
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Callisto
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- Intel Core2 Dual on an Asus P5LD2-VM DH motherboard
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- Seagate 80 gig HDD, Western Digital 200 gig HDD
- Build-in Intel extreme graphics
- Built-in Intel HD audio soundcard
- Adaptec Ultra SCSI PCI controller
- TSSTcorp SATA CD/DVD writer
- Plextor 12/10/32 SCSI CDRW drive
- 17" LG TFT monitor
- Dualbooting GNU/Linux (Debian "etch") and Windows (98lite) (not booted in years..)
- Broadcom "AirForce One 54g" PCI wireless card
- Built in Intel Pro/1000
- Microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard 4000 (annoyingly lacking the USB ports that the older Natural Pro had) and Logitech MouseMan Optical
Callisto is my home workstation, and was my main machine at college.
Acquired: January 1999 to May 2007
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Urchin
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- Dell Poweredge 1850 1U server
- Dual Xeon 3GHz
- 2048 MB RAM
- 2 x 147GB 10kRPM SCSI disks with hardware Raid 1
- Integrated Intel Pro/1000
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "etch")
- Collocated at Rapidswitch in Maidenhead.
Acquired: May 2005
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh,
Dave and
Art.
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Urchin (old)
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- DNUK 1U server
- Celeron 733
- 1024 MB RAM
- 40 GB UDMA 66 disk, 120 GB UDMA 100 disk running in UDMA 66
- Integrated SiS 10/100 ethernet and Intel Pro/100
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody")
- Was collocated at Black Cat Networks in London.
Acquired: April 2001
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh,
Dave and
Art.
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Ickle
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- Palm T|X
- 128 MB RAM
- StrongARM
- PalmOS 5
Acquired: May 2007
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Kalyke
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- IBM Thinkpad 760ED
- Pentium 133MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 1 GB HDD
- 3com Realport 10/100 NIC/56k modem
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- 800x600 TFT LCD
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "sarge")
Acquired July 2003
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Elara
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- Sony Vaio Picturebook C1XD
- Pentium II 400MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 40 GB HDD (upgraded)
- 8.9" TFT at 1024x480
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "etch")
Acquired May 2004
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Sinope
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- NeXTstation Turbo
- 33 MHz Motorola m68k processor
- 500MB SCSI disk
- Monochrome monitor
- NeXTstep 3.3
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Thebe
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- Via Epia 5000 in a Cubid 2688RV case
- 40GB disk
- 128MB ram
- Additional Sun QFE NIC
- Noname ADSL router
- Runs mail, webcache, DNS for my house, and routes and firewalls a /27 (and /64 of IPV6) via PPPOE from the ADSL router to a DMZ and internal network
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "etch")
Acquired September 2005
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Amalthea
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- Sun Sparcstation 2
- Sun 4/75
- 32 MB RAM
- 300 MB and 150 MB (roughly) SCSI HDD
- Built-in AUI ethernet adaptor
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "sid")
Used as an occasional bedtime terminal at mum's home and breakable sparc box when needed.
Acquired: Autumn 2000
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Europa
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- Cyrix 120 MHz "Pentium"
- 36 MB RAM
- Maxtor 1.5 gig HDD, 1 gig HDD
- 15" noname monitor
- Soundblaster Pro
- 10/100 Mbit/s Realtek 8139 netcard
- Dualbooting Linux (Redhat 6.2) and Windows (98lite)
Europa is currently on holiday at my dad's house, running the Other OS
Acquired: Spring 2000
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Thebe (old)
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- Compaq Prolinea 575
- Intel Pentium 75
- 24 MB RAM
- 410 MB HDD
- 3Com 3C595-TX 10/100 Mbit/s NIC (RJ45)
- 3Com 3C509B-TP0 10Mbit/s NIC (RJ45)
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody")
This is a bit of an experimental box at the moment. It's in Oxford at
the moment, doing some VPN stuff.
Acquired: Summer 2000
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Adrastea
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IBM RS 6000 (7248-133)
- PowerPC PReP 133 MHz
- 32 MB RAM
- 2 GB Fast-5 SCSI disk
- Integrated 10Mbit ethernet (PCNet)
- Via Rhine 10/100 PCI NIC
- Motorola Surfboard Cable modem
- Running Debian woody
Adrastea is running IP masquerading, and DNS, DHCP and mail servers
at mum's home.
Acquired: July 2001
My page on installing linux on this machine
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Io
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- CyrixInstead 40Mhz (486-alike)
- 24 MB RAM
- 197 MB HDD, 121 MB HDD
- Realtek RTL8029 10 Mbit/s netcard
- NE2000 compatible 10 Mbit/s netcard
- Running Linux (Redhat 6.1)
Io is rather dead, now
Acquired: Spring 2000
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Metis
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- Compaq Contura 410 laptop
- 486 DX2 66
- 8 MB RAM
- 256 MB hdd
- D-link PCMCIA ethernet, Megahertz 14.4 modem
- Prism2 based 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card
- mono LCD
- Running GNU/Linux (Debian "woody") with 2.4.19 (so I can do wireless
stuff easily)
metis is my living room text terminal.
Acquired: June 2001
metis is now failing to boot :(
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Thinstar
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- NCD Thinstar 200 thin client
- Running WinCE (yes, yes, I know)
- 8 MB memory
- 1 MB video RAM
- 100 MHz or so MIPS CPU
- 10/100 ethernet, vga, serial, ps2
- NCD ThinPath XWindows X server
Used as a thin client to callisto.
Here is a HOWTO
for setting up these boxes as an X server.
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Ganymede
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- 486 DX2/66
- 16 MB RAM
- 14" noname monitor
- 800(ish) MB HDD
- SoundBlaster 16 compatible
- Kingston 10 Mbit/s netcard
- Running 98lite
Ganymede is rather dead, now
Acquired: 1995
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Ickle (old)
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- Palm Vx
- 8 MB RAM
- 20 MHz Motorola Dragonball processor
- PalmOS 3.5
Acquired: Autumn 2000
You could try my Oxford Palm Archive (but it's
very out of date now).
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Pasiphae
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- SGI Indy
CPU: MIPS R4600 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
FPU: MIPS R4600 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 2.0
1 100 MHZ IP22 Processor
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Graphics board: Indy 8-bit
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0
Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam connected
- 2 GB SCSI disk
- 17" SGI branded Sony trinitron monitor
- Running Irix 6.5
Acquired: October 2001
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