[tech] Mermaid re-animated

[David Manchester]

> Good point - why buy old expensive upgrades when we could buy new ones
> that'll be useful for much longer. 

I'm all for it.

> If Mako becames a C400/128, we'd solve
> the problem of mailing lists and Moray's performance problems, Mako's
> current performance problems, we'd be able to move to PostgreSQL, and we'd
> have some of Mako's old hardware that could be used for something less
> demanding. If Moray has the slots available, we could bump it up to 32Mb
> with Mako's two 8Mb's.

Actually, I'd advocate stealing Moray's RAM (as there are no more slots free)
and installing that into Mako and doing a brain transplant.

> If we want to look at buying a motherboard, 128Mb of RAM and the Celeron 400
> in the next couple of weeks, I'm quite happy to donate the $200 or so that
> the club would need to buy one of the 7200rpm Quantum drives previously
> mentioned.

Urm, read the above sentence again, recall what spurned this whole
conversation & see if you're as puzzled as I.
I think I understand Ben's rationale :)

Anyway - C400A/RAM/bigfoot=Mako, P150/64MB/6GB disk=Mermaid, Mako+RAM+SCSI=moray... how's that sound..?

Cheers
/dave

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