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First off, a massive thankyou to everyone who turned up for this event. It was a very well attended event, with about 20 of us barging into Andrew Jackson's flat. Although at some points it looked like a case of "too many cooks", we got a lot done.
The list...of donated equipment is pretty long. Here goes, it's not in any particular order.
After some furious carrying-in of computer boxes (thanks, Tom!) we got to work. It's a little amazing, but at one point we must have had 10 people clustered around Andrew's one-metre diameter table. Whilst work progressed, other wheeler-dealing was afoot. After some dodgy screwing-motherboard-to-case antics, Simon Cozens was in need of a new board. Needless to say, he didn't leave empty-handed. After CompSoc SwapMeet(tm) had finished, we had a (nearly) working machine assembled. The final spec was an Intel P90 (clocked at 75MHz due to a lack of fan), 16MB RAM, Opti-Viper m/b 512k, PCI 1mb video card, 400mb IDE disk, 16-bit NE2000 clone ethernet card, and some scrounged peripherals. The moment of truth had arrived. Recorded live on CompSoc's new WebCam (look out for another addition in the future!) the President fearlessly booted the machine, nicknamed "Sticky". The name was chosen because the motherboard and hard disk are currently held in with cellotape, and "Sticky" rhymes with "Mickey" the new machine's closest relative. A quick 'oops' and change of network card later Sticky was happily installing RedHat 5.0 via NFS from sable. All in all, a fun time was had by everyone. Over the next week or so, Sticky will be rigorously stress-tested (we're going to "do a sable" and run 300 copies of pine on it...) to make sure it's reliable. In the short term, Sticky will probably act as a backup name server, mail list server, and general project test-bed. Since the memory on Sticky is limited, we will probably not be using it as a public access machine for some time, but the general idea is to make it available for jobs that fishy is not well suited to (i.e. CPU intensive tasks). Meanwhile, we have nearly enough bits and pieces for yet another machine. We have a motherboard, 586-133 CPU, video card and hard disk -- what we really need is some 72 pin SIMMS. If you'd like to donate any hardware to CompSoc, please mail the admin team. It'd be great to hear from you.
If you've been missed off the list of donors, I apologise
profusely. Please mail the
secretary and he'll correct it. Or we'll shoot him.
(Sticky's configuration and role has changed. See our
network pages for more details.)
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