Sort-of-a-Conquest: ThinkPads, Mobility, UNIX Iron.

[Cory5412]

Well this is a weird set of "liberations" if you could call it that, but I got in a cool little haul recently, all of it stuff I bought from techfury90.

The first part is something we've been planning for awhile, I got two ThinkPad 760 series machines he wasn't using. My intent is to try OpenSTEP on one of 'em, and in general reconfigure all three of my 760 series machines until I get at least two workable machines. Likely, one of 'em will run Windows NT4 or 95, and the other will run OPENSTEP 4.2.

The other part is another thing I decided I wanted awhile back, a mobile internet pcmcia card so I can get online with my ThinkPad when I'm on vacation this summer. Here's hoping there's good network reception in Michigan.

And lastly, some UNIX iron -- a Sun Ultra60 workstation. This thing, I'd say, is probably the contemporary to the Octane or Octane2, or at least fills some of that same market. Let's just say, it's HUGE! It's got dual 450MHz processors, a gigabyte(I think) of memory, and dual 18GB scsi hard discs, in addition to a cool slot-loading DVD-ROM drive.

 

[John8520]

[comment about needing pictures, mr d300 man]

 

[Temetka]

This thread, and your big iron, are worthless without pics.

Somewhere out there a grammar nazi is tripping all over those commas.

 

[Cory5412]

I used to care a lot about grammar, but then I took ENG321 (English Grammars) and realized that people who actually sit at home on their computers and analyze the grammar of people's forum posts are a) doing it wrong and B) have no lives anyway. So it's cool. I know a few English majors actually, they seem to be better than the "Grammar Nazi" type.

Anyway, here are the pics!

ThinkPad R61i -- Now with even more mobility.

Sony Ericsson GC83 PCMCIA Card

UNIX IRON

The KB/Mouse

The Badge

The U60's Journey to the ACHD

The U60 sitting at the lab desk where I work my 9-hour weekend night shifts.

The ThinkPad 760s are also in my photostream, but they're not really all that great. They weren't packed the best ever, and they need some recombination. I'm going to make one superThinkPad for OPENSTEP eventually. I've got the external floppy and the cd drive to do it, so that'll be pretty awesome ot have around.

 

[Sludgedragon]

Somewhere out there a grammar nazi is tripping all over those commas.

Wouldn't that be a punctuation Nazi? [}] ]'>

 

[paws]

Somewhere out there a grammar nazi is tripping all over those commas.

Wouldn't that be a punctuation Nazi? [}] ]'>

Lexicology nazi!

 

[Bunsen]

Temetka, your commas, though they may seem numerous, are in fact correct

BTW sweet score on that Sun box. What are the dual 450MHz CPUs?

 

[techfury90]

UltraSPARC IIs with 4 MB cache a pop.

 

[ChristTrekker]

Ultra 60...sweet. I've got an Ultra 5 with a single 333 MHz proc and I think even that is nice. Great way to learn Solaris.

 

[Cory5412]

Yeah, I almost got an Ultra 5, /400MHz, probably a bit easier to take with me to work, but My intent is to use the machine as my web server and "development box" (testing php/mysql web apps.)

Oh, and I completely misunderstood the grammar comment before -- I thought I'd typed my post wrong. oops. [] ]'> I was probably tired at the time.

Anyway, I'll eventually get that set up and running, we're going to put ULW on it, and I was thinking of moving my blog to that machine, self-hosted.

 

[Temetka]

Pics man, we need pics.

I would love to get some old school big iron like that some day.

Debating on an Indigo, Orion or something else.

Irix could be fun, but Solaris would be more practical. I have some Solaris experience and have never touched an Irix box. I do have years of Unix Admin under my belt so I should feel right at home in either once I get a feel for it.

 

[Cory5412]

IRIX is a great system, one of the other boxes I've got at home is an SGI Octane, dual225 R10,000SC with 384mb of ram and a 4gig hdd, I've got a 70gig here that I got off of eBay for it, and an external cdrw, with hopefully the right cable. The only problem with that machine is that the SoG display. I eventually need to get an adapter for it, and a Dell UltraSharp panel which supports SoG on it's vga input. Because of it's stout size, the Octane is *almost* easier to carry around than the U60 too.

Anyway, the pics are linked to in my post above.

 

[Temetka]

/slaps self

Nice pics.

You carried that thing Uni?

Nice.

 

[Bunsen]

I see your two processors and raise you ten

 

[Temetka]

Whereas your e-bay link is to a right powerful system, it is also to a right huge piece of kit as well. See that rack? That's just slightly bigger than Cory's Sun boxen.

I highly doubt he could carry that to uni.

 

[paws]

Whereas your e-bay link is to a right powerful system, it is also to a right huge piece of kit as well. See that rack? That's just slightly bigger than Cory's Sun boxen.
I highly doubt he could carry that to uni.

Well, then he needs to get more exercise!

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

I see your two processors and raise you ten

I'll see your ten UltraSPARC CPUs and raise you 64 with 1 GB of RAM each

And yes, Sun's larger Enterprise solutions are *HUGE*

 

[Temetka]

See, now THAT is a proper piece of kit.

A few years back some place had a ton of those and they modded them up with light bars and whatnot. Looked absolutely awesome.

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

If I had a huge soundproof garage and 3-phase mains and a lot of money I'd have a pretty swell data center by now I'd also probably have a Superbike racing team, but that;s another story entirely