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== How/where the machine was obtained ==

 * Manbo was donated by [[http://www.videlli.com/|ERG]], gratis, just in time for Christmas 2004
 * Some UCCans and a van transported it to the UCC and hauled it up the stairs
 * ...and hauled back downstairs to [[http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/]], as of 2013-11-10

== History prior to arriving to UCC ==

 * Was running Solaris 8 as an Oracle server for ERG
 * Belonged to someone else before that

== UCC machine history ==

 * Arrived upstairs and began taking up a significant amount of space in the clubroom. The Fresher Rep ([DAA]) exclaims "what the heck is that?!"
 * A more conventional, non-three-phase power plug was attached (it only drew 5.5A, anyway) and it was booted and installed.
Finally moved into the machine room (after rearranging the machine room)
 * Impressive disk array was converted into the new /services, retiring meito
 * Tape changer (purchased from UCS) was installed in the top part because, according to [DAA], [JCF] and [DAG], "there's loads of space in here!"
 * A Sun E4000 was purchased to provide us with additional CPU cards and power modules
 * An additional 11 GiB of RAM was purchased, and brought over from the USA by [MSH]
 * A grant from [[http://www.linux.org.au|Linux Australia]] allowed us to buy 14 400MHz CPUs and other sundries

 * Gone to [[http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/]] now

== Current machine tasks ==

 * Serving /services
 * Serving /away
 * Tape backup server
 * NIS slave
 * Tinderboxing [[http://www.gnome.org|GNOME]]

== Current software configuration ==

 * Solaris 9

== Current hardware configuration ==

 * Sun Enterprise E6000 chassis
 * 14x UltraSparc 400MHz CPUs
 * 11.5 GiB of RAM
 * 2x D1000 wide differential SCSI arrays, with 18 x 18GB Cheetah HDDs
 * 5 tape changer

== Future plans for the machine ==

 * Offer developer accounts for some dtrace love

== Thanks to: ==

 * [NTU] (Nick Bannon) for securing the machine and doing stuff;
 * ERG Group for donating it to us, gratis;
 * [DAG] (Bernard Blackham);
 * [TRS] (James Andrewartha);
 * [MSH] (Matt Johnston) for lugging the RAM back from the US;
 * [NTU], [TRS], [CAM], [SAF], [VEL], [JCF], [DAA], [MTL], [ZAR], and [AHC] for donating funds for the upgrade projects; and
 * [[http://www.linux.org.au/|Linux Australia]], who provided a grant that allowed us to upgrade the machine.

== Related Sites ==

 * [[http://www.videlli.com/|ERG]]
 * [[http://www.sun.com|Sun Microsystems]]

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