[tech] Mermaid re-animated

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:09:48PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
[...]
> 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)

6) 4 port dumb serial card for moray so as to centralise the evil dispense
serial stuff. I might have a suitable one. This might be better achieved
by other means.

David Manchester wrote:
> Ben Rampling wrote:
> > 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..?

7) This, or some modification of this.

I'd just like to make another plea for naming scheme sanity - by the time
a machine gets a new MB, CPU, RAM, I/O controller and HDD it probably
should have a new name... ::-/ If it happens one by one over years,
that's one thing, but still...

Hopefully a webmaster will get around to updating ;
http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/machines/
sometime.

Nick.

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