These are the machines owned or part-owned, roughly speaking, by myself.

Callisto
  • Intel Core2 Dual on an Asus P5LD2-VM DH motherboard
  • 1GB DDR2 RAM
  • 2 x Western Digital 1TB 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
  • GNU/Linux (Debian "lenny")
  • Atheros PCI wireless card
  • Built in Intel Pro/1000
  • Microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard 4000 random Dell mouse

Callisto is my home workstation, and was my main machine at college.
Acquired: January 1999 onwards

porcupine
  • Dell Poweredge R200 1U server
  • Quad Xeon X3330 @ 2.66GHz
  • 8192 MB RAM
  • 2 x 750GB SATA disks
  • Integrated Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
  • Running GNU/Linux (Debian "lenny")
  • Collocated at Jump Networks in London.

Acquired: July 2009
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh, Dave and Art hosting, among virtual machines, urchin.earth.li.

Ickle
  • Palm T|X
  • 128 MB RAM
  • StrongARM
  • PalmOS 5

Acquired: May 2007

eurydome
  • Dell Mini 9 netbook
  • 8GB SSD
  • 1GB RAM
  • Ubuntu 10.04

Acquired: January 2009

thyone
  • FX5621 6 LAN Industrial Firewall/Router platform
  • VIA Eden Processor 1000MHz
  • 512MB RAM
  • 2GB Transcend CF card
  • 160GB Seagate 2.5" HDD
  • Wistron CM9 miniPCI 802.11a/b/g adapter
  • 4x RTL8139, 2x et131x
  • Debian ("lenny")

This system acts as a Linux router/firewall connected to a Zyxel ADSL modem in bridging mode, and a wireless base station using hostapd.

Dead or given away computers
Amalthea
  • 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

Europa
  • 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

Thebe (old)
  • 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

Adrastea 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

Io
  • 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

Metis
  • 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 :(

Thinstar
  • 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.

Ganymede
  • 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

Ickle (old)
  • 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).

Pasiphae
  • 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

Urchin (mark 1)
  • 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.

Urchin (mark 2)
  • 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 "lenny")
  • Collocated at Rapidswitch in Maidenhead.

Acquired: May 2005
Co-operated by myself, Ganesh, Dave and Art.

Kalyke
  • 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

Elara
  • 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

Sinope
  • NeXTstation Turbo
  • 33 MHz Motorola m68k processor
  • 500MB SCSI disk
  • Monochrome monitor
  • NeXTstep 3.3
Thebe
  • 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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