Computers

This page describes the layout of my network and my collection of computers as it looked just before I moved out of my student dorm-room in the summer of 2005.

                                    The global digital computer network Internet           
                                         |                          |     
  Luleå University of Technology Campus network        Luleå Academic Computer Society network 
      __________________________________|_               |
  ___|____    ____|_____    ___|____   ___|____	        _|__ 
 | kohina |  | lovelace |  | grace  | | beyond |       | la |
 |________|  |__________|  |________| |________|       |____|
                         _______|_____      
                    ____|____    _____|____ 
                   | fujitsu |  | bootserv | 
                   |_________|  |__________|

Hostnames
A list of my hostnames, both past and present.

alpha, beta and gamma were the first hostnames I chose, but it became pretty boring after a while, so newer hosts got better names.
burk, Swedish for "box", common slang for computer.
urd, skuld and belldandy who got their names from some anime.
grace, from Grace Cooper who worked on an early computer and found a "bug".
lovelace, from Ada Lovelace, the woman who wrote the first bug ever in a piece of software.
kohina, Finnish for "White noice", also the name of a shoutcast station, as I am a relay I thought it would be convenient to name it that way.
la, short for Linux Army, the ET clan I play for.
mame, after the arcade emulation software.
talky, for running TeamSpeak.
warez-ftp, suggested by a friend as I were filling out the paperwork for a new computer, just had to have it.
cindy, I had it standing by my bed, so when asked where I were, I could truthfully say "In bed with Cindy!". :-)
redcross, my first aid box, I use it to recover from various disasters and breakdowns.
mac, it is a Macintosh.
fujitsu, after the brand.
bootserv, so I will remember what it is called.

Computers in use

These computers are set up and ready to be used, or even turned on constantly.

grace

All in one firewall/nat/dhcp-box.

CPU: ?
Memory: ?
Graphics: None
Disks: None
NIC: 5 10/100Mbit ports
OS: ?
BogoMIPS: ?

fujitsu

Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S4542. Bought second hand. Rather nice machine all in all, manages to play divx files from the Internet, but not quite fast enough to play emulated SNES games.

CPU: PIII 600 MHz Mobile, SpeedSteped down to 500MHz
Memory: 256MB
Graphics: Trident Cyber 9525 2.5MB
Disks: 12GB, and a DVD that is so loud that it is useless for watching DVDs.
NIC: Built in 10/100Mbit
OS: Debian Sarge
BogoMIPS: 992.87

SPARCStation 5 set up at the Academic Computer Society, runs a small webserver.

CPU: MicroSparc 70Mhz
Memory: 64MB
Graphics: None
Disks: 2*1080MB Quantum
NIC: Built in
OS: Debian Linux
BogoMIPS: 69.63

lovelace

My present workstation.

CPU: AMD Athlon 1000Mhz, downclocked to 750Mhz.
Memory: 384MB
Graphics: Cheapie GeForce card and a 2nd hand Compaq P1100 monitor.
Disk: Seagate Barracuda Mod IV 60GB and Mod 7 80GB.
NIC: RealTek
OS: Dualboot Windows 2000 - Debian GNU/Linux
BogoMIPS: 1510.60
Wacom Graphire3 tablet, 2*Rockfire USB joypads, cd-burner and dvd-player.

bootserv

Machine bought at a flea market. The case is a Dell one, but the contents does not match the labels, so it must have been through some serious upgrades in the past. Random server for internal use, like netbooting sparcs from.

CPU: Pentium III 450 Katmai
Memory: 192MB
Graphics: Riva128
Disks: 6GB Maxtor and a Toshiba XM-6202B CD-ROM
NIC: RealTek RTL8139 and Intel Pro/100
OS: Debian Sarge
BogoMIPS: 884.73

Computers in store

These computers are not used at the moment, stored because they can come in handy some day.

beyond

SPARCStation 4, although a little short on disk I run a webserver, an icecast relay for Kohina and an OpenNIC DNS server on it.

CPU: MicroSparc 110Mhz
Memory: 128MB
Graphics: Built in
Disks: 1080MB Conner
NIC: Built in
OS: Debian Linux
BogoMIPS: 109.77

burk

This was once my workstation. Then it was repurposed as a server, sharing files with samba, relaying a shoutcast stream, and some other stuff. Now it is the computer rigged at my bed, and acts as a remote control and browsing box. It used to have 128MB RAM, but had to give up half to the ET server.

CPU: AMD-K6-2 333Mhz
Memory: 128MB
Graphics: ATI Rage IIc 4MB
Disk: 20 GB
NIC: NE2100
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
BogoMIPS: 660

grace real

Neat Pentium-pro machine, used to do some menial task at the University but got thrown away when a fan died, easy fix and now it keeps my room nice and warm. Relays between two internal networks, and runs Linux Terminal Server so other machines can net boot from it.

CPU: PPRO 200Mhz
Memory: 96MB EDO
Graphics: Number 9, S3based card
Disks: 8GB Western Digital
NIC: 3C509 and a RealTek 8139 100Mbit
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
BogoMIPS:397.31

mac

Powermac 7500 salvaged from CSEE department at LTU. With iTunes installed it makes a great player for streaming web radio. A very noisy fan keeps it from beeing turned on most of the time though.

CPU: 100Mhz PPC
Memory: 96MB
Graphics: Built in colour.
Disk: 1 GB
NIC: Built in
OS: MacOS 9.2
BogoMIPS: ?

talky

Another machine bought at a flea market, first intended as a spare parts machine for mame, but once I got a PSU for it I fixed it enough to run Linux. A Dell Dimension XPS 350, the CPU is cooled by the biggest heatsink I have ever seen in a desktop computer.

CPU: Pentium II 350
Memory: 64MB
Graphics: ATI Rage Pro
Disks: 8GB Maxtor and a NEC CD-ROM
NIC: 3Com905B
OS: Crux Linux 2.0
BogoMIPS: 688.12

one

Sparcstation4 thrown away by the IES department at LTU. Configured to be netbooting, diskless and headless, it is very quiet and takes up little space. However it is of somewhat limited use until I get a sound card for it.

CPU: MicroSPARC 85Mhz
Memory: 160MB
Graphics: Built in framebuffer, unused
Disk: None
NIC: Built in LANCE/NE2100
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
BogoMIPS: 84.78

two

Sparcstation5 thrown away by the IES department at LTU. Configured to be netbooting, diskless and headless, it is very quiet and takes up little space. Rigged by my stereo as mp3-player.

CPU: MicroSPARC 110Mhz
Memory: 220MB
Graphics: Built in framebuffer, unused
Disk: No HD, Toshiba CDROM.
NIC: Built in LANCE/NE2100
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
BogoMIPS: 109.36

cindy

Compaq SLT 286 salvaged from Systemtekniks junk heap. The battery is dead so I have it by my bed as a remote to my mp3 player. Connected with nullmodem to kohina, and an LapLink cable can be drawn to warez-ftp when I need to transfer files.
CPU: 12MHz 80268
Memory: 640KB
Graphics: Grayscale VGA flatscreen.
Disks: 20MB
NIC: None.
OS: MS-DOS 6.22
BogoMIPS: ?

skuld and belldandy

HP 700RX X-terminals.

CPU: i960
Memory: 2+8 MB
Graphics: Monochrome, HP 98774A/98774B monitor
Disks: None
NIC: Integrated, 10Mbit.
OS: ?
BogoMIPS:?

redcross

Rigged at my desk. I use it as an emergency workstation whenever lovelace is down.

CPU: Pentium 120
Memory: 24MB
Graphics: Onboard 1MB, taken from the 24MB
Disk: 850MB
NIC: 3Com EtherLink III
OS: Windows 98
BogoMIPS: 119.754
Has an ISA-SB16 card with a Sony CD-ROM and a DEXXA gamepad.

amiga (no hostname given yet)

My Amiga 500, purchased 2:nd hand over the Net. I got it to play games, nothing more, nothing less.

CPU: 68000 at 7.14 MHz
Memory: 1MB Chip, 8MB Fast
Graphics: 1084S Commodore monitor
Disk: 640MB Fujiutsu on a GVP Impact Series II scsi-controller.
NIC: SLIP
OS: WB 1.3
BogoMIPS: ?
It has a 4-joystick adapter that I soldered myself. There are a few Digital Storage Expansions waiting, should the first disk ever get full.

warez-ftp

Machine used for playing all those old games that don't like Windows.

CPU: Intel DX2 50Mhz
Memory: 20MB
Graphics: 5400-series Cirrus Logic, 1MB
Disk: Seagate 216MB.
NIC: 3c509
OS: MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11
BogoMIPS: ?
A cheapie SB Pro-clone audio card CS4236-chipset, with a very nice wavetable card, just perfect for all those games with MIDI-music. A Thrustmaster FCS is also connected.

Remembered computers

These computers are no longer in my possession, but I have kept the entries as a keepsake.

kohina

Compaq Presario 4768, strange model localized for the Swedish market, and hence missing from the online knowledge base (Compaq actually refused to admit they even made it when I mailed them and asked about it). This is by far my most bizzare computer, it requires the monitor to be restarted with the computer, or it will freeze. It also refuses to accept any further expansions, such as another NIC, so I can't use it as a router like I first intended.

The built in audio is a PnP ES1888 card that is just plain broken, to use it under Debian Linux the following had to be done:

In /etc/modules add
sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma16=5 dma=0

I had it next to my main workstation on the desk as an mp3-player, it was rather quiet after all. The monitor was an Apple monitor for Macs, but thanks to an adapter I could use it on PC.

Since it refused to boot if upgraded, and frequently lost contact with the KVM-switch I tired in the end and got rid of it.

CPU: Intel Pentium 200MMX (Complete with F00F-bug and all)
Memory: 80MB
Graphics: Integrated S3 Trio-64V+ 2MB on an Apple AppleVision multimedia monitor.
Disks: Floppy + 8.5GB IDE + 16x CDROM
NIC: 3Com 509
OS: Debian Sarge
BogoMIPS: 398.95

termserv

Server on the internal network, hosts the bootfiles for my HP700/rc terminals. The old battery on the MB had leaked, and destroyed some of the wiring, so now the BIOS maintains its data with the aid of three 1.5V batteries, soldered together.

Not counting the two IBM AT 286 machines I bought in highschool this was my first computer, and the one that took by far the biggest bite out of my wallet when I bought it. During highschool and the years that followed I ran everything from DOS to Windows NT to some strange Italian localized Linux distro on it. When I moved to the university I used it for the first years as an mp3-player, and did browsing in Netscape, all in 16MB of ram.

CPU: AMD DX4 100
Memory: 32MB
Graphics: Cirrus Logic 5429 1MB
Disks: Quantum Bigfoot 4,3 GB
NIC: NE2100
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
BogoMIPS: 49.56

no name

An Quadra 950, a gift from a fellow member of LUDD. Rigged at my desk, but turned off most of the time as it is rather noisy.

I ended up giving it away to another LUDD member, he later gave me an adapter so I could use the neat monitor on one of my PCs instead.

CPU: 33MHz 68040 and a 66Mhz 601 PPC-card.
Memory: 64MB
Graphics: Built in on an Apple Vision multimedia 17'' monitor.
Disks: 1GB IBM scsi
NIC: Built in ethernet.
OS: MacOS 7.5.5
BogoMIPS: ?

urd

HP 700RX X-terminal.

CPU: i960
Memory: 2+8 MB
Graphics: Monochrome, HP 98774A/98774B monitor
Disks: None
NIC: Integrated, 10Mbit.
OS: ?
BogoMIPS:?

wilpersdec

DECStation 2100 also known as PMIN, actually my second one as I gave my first one away after getting mad at NetBSD. Rescued this one just before Ludd threw all their DECs away. It was rock solid, and stayed up without a single problem for 614 days as a samba server before it had to be shut down when Ludd moved stuff in the computer room, its place was taken by a Sparc.

CPU: 12Mhz MIPS
Memory: 24MB
Graphics: 64KB Monochrome framebuffer, unused
Disk: Lots of them, Fujitsu 640MB and some smaller ones from DEC.
NIC: Integrated 10Mbit
OS: NetBSD
BogoMIPS: ?

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