From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jan 2 22:38:20 2007 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 22:38:20 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] melanopus and sunblade Message-ID: melanopus has been confirmed dead, one of the power caps underneath one of the cpus vaporised at some point. I stripped it down, and noticed that the RAM is the same as used in the Sun Blade 100. So I filled the Sun up with 1GB of RAM, however it needs a USB keyboard and mouse - has anyone seen them floating around, or thefted them without writing them in the theft book? -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From davyd at madeley.id.au Tue Jan 2 23:21:23 2007 From: davyd at madeley.id.au (Davyd Madeley) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:21:23 +0900 Subject: [tech] melanopus and sunblade In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1167747683.9601.6.camel@frobisher.madeley.id.au> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 22:38 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: > melanopus has been confirmed dead, one of the power caps underneath one of > the cpus vaporised at some point. I stripped it down, and noticed that the > RAM is the same as used in the Sun Blade 100. So I filled the Sun up with > 1GB of RAM, however it needs a USB keyboard and mouse - has anyone seen > them floating around, or thefted them without writing them in the theft book? The keyboard was on Arctic. Forget how long ago that was. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA From bernard at blackham.com.au Wed Jan 3 00:49:09 2007 From: bernard at blackham.com.au (Bernard Blackham) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:49:09 +0900 Subject: [tech] melanopus and sunblade In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20070102154909.GC16383@mersenne.largestprime.net> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:38:20PM +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: > melanopus has been confirmed dead, one of the power caps underneath one of > the cpus vaporised at some point. I stripped it down, and noticed that the > RAM is the same as used in the Sun Blade 100. So I filled the Sun up with > 1GB of RAM, however it needs a USB keyboard and mouse - has anyone seen > them floating around, or thefted them without writing them in the theft book? I've got an unwanted Dell USB keyboard I'll bring in tomorrow, along with 2x14" monitors - if they're also unwanted, somebody can toss them into the bin (or I will on Saturday). Bernard. From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Jan 3 10:10:14 2007 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:10:14 +0900 Subject: [tech] melanopus and sunblade In-Reply-To: <20070102154909.GC16383@mersenne.largestprime.net> References: <20070102154909.GC16383@mersenne.largestprime.net> Message-ID: <20070103011013.GC5672@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007, Bernard Blackham wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:38:20PM +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: > > melanopus has been confirmed dead, one of the power caps underneath one of > > the cpus vaporised at some point. I stripped it down, and noticed that the > > RAM is the same as used in the Sun Blade 100. So I filled the Sun up with > > 1GB of RAM, however it needs a USB keyboard and mouse - has anyone seen > > them floating around, or thefted them without writing them in the theft book? > > I've got an unwanted Dell USB keyboard I'll bring in tomorrow, along > with 2x14" monitors - if they're also unwanted, somebody can toss > them into the bin (or I will on Saturday). I'll take one. Adrian From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jan 16 14:00:38 2007 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:00:38 +0900 Subject: [tech] 720k disks? Message-ID: <20070116050038.GB18886@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hiya, I had left a bag of 720k floppies on the workbench @ UCC. Anyone know what happened to 'em? Adrian From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jan 30 17:16:24 2007 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:16:24 +0900 Subject: [tech] Let's all do the Machine Reshuffle! Message-ID: <20070130081624.GA11668@ellipsis.frenchie.id.au> Hi All, DAA (the company, not the person) have kindly donated some new Athlons to the club. Trs80 and I have set them up replacement machines for cybium and cobbler. The new machines, combtail and colmata, both have Athlon XP 2100+s in them /w 768M of RAM and 80G of disk. Combtail has [GMB]'s loaned 9700 pro in it and Colmata has cobbler's old 4800 (which appears to be dying a slow horrible death). We've left ~20G free on both the disks so they can be loaded up with either Ubuntu or Debian at a later date. Rather than put cybium and cobbler out of action completely, we've shifted the 9200's that came with the new machines into them and installed Etch. They've been migrated out into the hallway as nice web browsing/mail machines. Frenchie -- James French: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au