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 * [[Humpback]] -- Dell, Pentium IV running Ubuntu
 * [[Mermaid]] -- UCC's dispense server for many years, running Debian
 * [[http://www.ucc.asn.au/machines/manduba.ucc|Manduba]] -- Sun UltraSPARC II running opensolaris

The UCC has gone through a lot of machines in its 30+ 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.

  • 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

Unix

  • Humpback -- Dell, Pentium IV running Ubuntu

  • Mermaid -- UCC's dispense server for many years, running Debian

  • Manduba -- Sun UltraSPARC II running opensolaris

  • Persephone -- Pentium IV running Solaris

  • Flying

  • Sidderrog -- Ultrasparc II running Debian

  • Nayk

  • 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

  • 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
  • Cobbler

  • Cybium

Windows

  • Patience -- Pentium II runnning Windows 2000

X-Terminals

  • Maroon

  • 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

NeXT

  • Beige -- NeXT running NeXTstep

  • Poobrown -- 50Mhz HP running NeXTstep

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 -- ARM which ran KAOS II written by The Organism [JPQ]

  • 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

  • Halogen -- An Apple LaserWriter printer

  • Sodium -- An Apple LaserWriter 16/600 laser printer

  • Phosporous -- An HP 1320N laser printer

Other

  • Lorenzo -- Cisco Catalyst 2950
  • Curviceps -- Procurve switch
  • Gibson -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Atacama -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Judean -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Ben -- IBM 360 which ran MVS when it was the Perth Building Society's twinned (what happened to bill?) main processing system

  • 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

  • MurphyII -- Mini which ran a clone of RSX11, aka neo-Murphy

  • Kalahari -- Club refrigerator and freezer

  • Snack -- Club snack machine

  • Sahara -- Machine room air conditioner

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


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