The UCC has gone through a lot of machines in its 50+ years of operation. We have tried to keep a record of most of the machines that have passed through our club. That way, whenever older members reminisce, with a tear in their eye, the freshers have some hope of knowing what they're talking about.
As things have become more and more prone to virtualisation, some of the newer entries on this list never took a physical form.
Unix
Mooneye -- Arrived as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_5x86 in 1999; rebuilt as a dual Pentium-90 in 2001; then a dual Pentium-II-450 in 2005; and copied to a 2GiB RAM DELL PowerEdge 2850 dual Netburst Xeon 3.6GHz between 2010 and 2014. Ran many public-facing services - DNS/bind, mail and mailing lists, Flame MUD, Dispense including door and coke serial ports, volume-charged SOCKS and telnet, doorlogger, Apache websites, ProFTPd, POP mail access and fingerd. Shutdown on 2022-10-10.
Midshipman -- Print server for Blacklight
Kalashnikov -- Small ARM Ubuntu GNU/Linux desktop
Martello -- Dual AMD Opteron 242 server PC, user shell box then fileserver
Madako -- P4 Xeon running Debian. Did UCC's routing for many years before being replaced by Murasoi
Humpback -- Dell, Small form factor PC/Pentium IV running Ubuntu GNU/Linux
Mermaid -- UCC's dispense server for many years, running Debian
Manduba -- Sun UltraSPARC II running opensolaris
Persephone -- Pentium IV running Solaris
Flying -- PC wireless 802.11b Access Point running Linux
Sidderrog -- Ultrasparc II running Debian
Nayk -- MIPS? loghost running NetBSD
Mudhead -- 7 machine Dual Alpha cluster running Debian
Velvet -- Athlon XP 2000+ netbooting to Debian 2.6
Pitch -- Athlon XP 2000+ netbooting to Debian 2.6
Azure -- SGI Indigo running IRIX 6.5
Melanopus -- DEC Alpha Cluster running ?Debian 2.6?
Morwong -- Dual Alpha 833MHz EV68 running Digital Unix (Tru 64) 5.1B (might be resurrected one day)
- School -- Cluster of 7 Pentiums (1x75,5x100,1x120 MHz) running MOSIX 1.4
Sardine -- SPARCclassic running Solaris 7
Salmon -- SPARCstation IPX running OpenBSD 2.6
Skipjack -- SPARCclassic running OpenBSD 2.6
Manta -- MicroVAX II running Ultrix 4.2, (old old uniwa, thyme and arcadia)
Mojarra -- 166MHz Intel Pentium running GNU/Linux
Erwin -- Silicon Graphics O2 running Irix
Scarlet -- Silicon Graphics Indigo2 running Irix
Mackerel -- Sun 3/280 running SUNOS 4.1.1
Marlin -- 486 running Linux
Manbo -- Sun Enterprise 6000 running Solaris
Marron -- Sun 3/60 running XKernel
Mudskipper -- Micro VAX II which ran BSD4.3, (old earwax)
Minnow -- VAX 11/730 which ran BSD4.3
Moray -- 486 running Linux
Mulloway -- Sun 3/180 which ran SunOS4.1.3
Mullet -- VAX 11/750 which ran BSD4.3, (old swanee)
Starfish -- Star 910/VP running STAROS 4.1.1
- Munchwabbit -- Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 running IRIX
- Chartreuse -- Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 running IRIX
Meito -- x86 machine running Solaris 9
Piggery -- DEC Alpha running Tru64
Seriola -- 250Mhz Ultra 30 running Solaris 10
Oligoboot
Cephalopod -- Pentium IV running Windows 7 and Ubuntu
Curdane -- P4 running Windows XP and Mandriva
Coblet -- The first of the great projects bench machines
- Cod -- Linux and Windows 98
Characid -- Intel i5-3570 running Windows 7 and OpenSUSE
cabellera -- PC-BSD and Linux
Windows
Patience -- Pentium II runnning Windows 2000
X-Terminals
Maroon -- Netbooting PC Pentium-133
Frohike -- 17" NCD, colour
Langly -- 19" NCD, black and white
Byers -- 16" NCD, black and white
Mulder -- 17" Labtam, 256 colour, 16Mb RAM
Scully -- 17" Labtam, 256 colour, 16Mb RAM
Skinner -- 19" HP, 256 colour, 12Mb RAM
- Krycek -- Colour XTerm
Macintosh
Titanic -- [?] running MacOS version [?]
Exxon -- [?] running MacOS version [?]
Bounty -- [?] running MacOS version [?]
Batavia -- [?] running MacOS version [?]
- Bowser
- Mario
- Toad
- Stereo
- Enterprise
- BW-Webcam
NeXT
BeOS
CP/M
Merlin -- Z80 which acted as robot brain and ran CP/M
Bespoke OSes
Marvin -- Club-built 32000 which ran KAOS written by [JvP], hacking by [DDT] in 1988/89.
Minimarvin -- Smaller marvin, with special Toad DMA interface for graphics output.
Mercury -- UCC-built wire-wrapped ARM2, ran KAOS II written by The Organism [JPQ], reanimated by [NTU][BOB][BG3][TPG][LE@] and more, starting 2014
Encee -- A Murphy from McLarty's, had various drives (bob, hazel, crash, burn) and CPUs (ashes2ashes, dust2dust)
Terminal Servers
Axolotl -- Cisco STS-10x running Cisco IOS 8.2
Peripherals
DECprinter -- A DEC printer
Blacklight -- An HP LaserJet Pro 400 laser printer
Halogen -- An Apple LaserWriter printer
Sodium -- An Apple LaserWriter 16/600 laser printer
- Phosphorous -- An HP 1320N laser printer
MS-DOS
Mephistopheles -- The Devil's or DAVil's AT box that ran the UCC's bulletin board for many years
Lucifer -- The XT from Hell
Rover -- 286 bridge machine running MS-DOS
Dogbox -- 386 games machine running MS-DOS
Snoopy -- 286 frame grabber machine running MS-DOS
Cooling/heating
Meyer -- 2018-03--2024-03-17, then --2024-12-11, Kelvinator KWH62HRE windowbox air conditioner, 6kW cooling. First failed on 2024-03-17, cleaned, returned to service. Then occasional failures and repeated "E1" failures during 202411, 202412. Replaced on 2024-12-11.
Kalimari -- 2015-01-29--2018-03-05 Kelvinator KWH62HRE windowbox air conditioner, 6kW cooling. Repaired under Australian Consumer Law/5 year manufacturer warranty (thank you [LDT]!) and kept as "cold spare", tested OK, ran for 11 days when reinstalled 2024-12-11--22 until "E1" failure
Antarctica -- 2010-04--2015-01 Kelvinator windowbox air conditioner, 5.3kW cooling
- Atacama -- 2009 Windowbox air conditioner, approximately 2kW-3.6kW cooling
Judean -- 2009-07-31 Emergency cooling: Portable Dimplex GDC-AC9RW air conditioner, 2.6kW cooling. Portable design is less effective than the wattage specification suggests: no efficient re-circulation of air in a closed area. Difficult to deal with the water drainage.
- Gibson -- 2005-12-17--2007-10 Windowbox air conditioner, approximately 2kW-3.6kW cooling. Repaired under warranty 2008-02 (thank you [DAA]!), but failed again, triggering circuit breakers, 2009-01
Sahara -- Windowbox air conditioner, approximately 2kW-3.6kW cooling
- Gobi -- Windowbox air conditioner, approximately 2kW-3.6kW cooling
- Simpson -- Windowbox air conditioner, approximately 2kW-3.6kW cooling
Kalahari -- Club refrigerator and freezer
Other
- Olive -- Cisco Catalyst switch
- Lorenzo -- Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch
- Curviceps -- Procurve switch
Snack -- Club snack machine
Ben -- IBM 360 which ran MVS when it was the Perth Building Society's twinned (what happened to Bill?) main processing system
MurphyII -- Mini which ran a clone of RSX11, aka neo-Murphy
Murphy -- Alpha Micro [PDP-11 clone which had the same assembly language, but different machine code for legal reasons] which ran a clone of RSX11, aka Dr ACC Murphy
