[tech] (fwd) fs:(Melb) Penitum 200MMX (Socket 7)
Grahame Bowland
gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Oct 30 12:36:08 WST 2000
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:11:46PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > > Yeah, that too. Beware that these will probably have PC66 DIMMs
> > > so we want to keep the RAM together... rather than swap it into
> > > mussel/new motherboards.
> >
> > It's PC100 from the information I've been given.
>
> Cute. I am inclined not to believe that.
It's newer RAM, they recently upgraded them (eg. earlier this year.)
> > We're getting those Celeron motherboards, aren't we? So we need to get the RAM
> > organised and a couple of P3s. I thought we were going with the computerman
> > P3/600s because they were cheaper? As for disks for the Celeron boxes we can
> > either buy a couple of 10Gb IDE drives or find some SCSI cards and feed them
> > the hard disks from the Suns. I'm close to having them on a diskless setup, as
> > soon as I figure out the NetBSD bootp stuff.
> >
> > Old slow seagate drives in the Celeron's doesn't really make sense though :)
>
> Very true. 10GB IDEs are a much nicer idea.
>
> Do we want to contact Computerman as representatives of the club,
> and ask him for specific chips with the option to return them if mussel
> hates them.??
Yes, I'll do this once I get down to Uni (~2 hours)
Cheers,
Grahame
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