[tech] Mermaid re-animated

[David Manchester]

> Hmmm... It's not a _bad_ price, and it's still a desirable thing, but I
> get the feeling we're in danger of splitting our efforts a bit too much.
> Death by a thousand cuts.

Yes - that's certainly non-optimal, but as the christians and curious
cynical bible readers amongst us will affirm, ask and ye shal receive.

If lots of people ask for lots of stuff, odds are some will happen.

> What RAM's in mako? 2x8MB 72pin SIMMs? 1x16? Even a single 32MB SIMM
> should go down nicely. Maxing it out to 64 would be reasonable.

I'd bet 2*8s - finding a fast page 32MB will be tres difficult.
Recall its a 486 AFAIK, so EDO's probably out. 

> Perhaps we should draw up a wishlist of retail items to buy, total it,
> prioritise and sanity check it, then buy it in a clump.

I concur.

My version of this list:

1) HDD for Moray. That's right, moray. It still whinges. Its -the- most
important machine in the club.
Maybe put the SCSI controller and the 1GB into Moray.

2) HDD for Mako. Ben wants his back, Ben wrote FMS. Be nice to Ben.

3) RAM for Moray. 16MB is tight.

4) SCSI cables. It'd be nice to be able to use the 8mm drives Nick and I
`found' for the UCC.

5) 100MB/s NICs. Cheap DEC Tulip cards like the Netgears and Dlinks would
be excellent. Just don't use then in Alphas. (no SROM makes DU unhappy)

...

I'll let someone more inspired continue.

Cheers
/dave
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