Yes, Dave built most of these beasts with his own two hands.
They are a bit outdated by today's standards, but, sufficient.
Some of them could use faster CPUs, more RAM, and larger
(and faster) disks, though.
These descriptions are probably not quite current. I fiddle
with these things all of the time. Some of the specs are
in anticipation of impending changes, some are outdated,
however, they all are close. I tend to move hardware
around as needed.
In case you are wondering, they are all named after characters or
places in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. (Actually, I kind'a think
of the places as characters themselves in Foundation. I think Asimov
does as well, he certainly treats them as such.) I try to make their
names fit in with how they relate to my local network. Not always
accurate, but, sufficient for the users of the system.
VHF 144.39 MHz 5 Watt FM Radio Transceiver (omnidirectional vertical antenna @ 5m AGL)
Disk Drive
Barracuda, Ultra SCSI-II
Catalina, Indy Fast SCSI-II
Display Adapter
S3 Virge PCI
Monitor
Packard Bell TriSync (PB8510SV)
Ports
Standard Printer Port (/dev/lp0)
Standard Printer Port (/dev/lp1)
Communications Port (/dev/ttyS0)
Communications Port (/dev/ttyS1)
Communications Port (/dev/ttyS2)
Communications Port (/dev/ttyS3)
SCSI Adapter
Adaptec 2930U2 PCI Ultra SCSI-II Controller
Universal Serial Bus
USB Serial Controller
USB Root Hub
Net
Winbond 100BaseTX PCI Ethernet Adapter
Mouse
Logitech MouseMan II (/dev/mouse)
Keyboard
Microsoft Compatible Keyboard
Tape Drives
Hewlett Packard Colorado 350 (/dev/ftape)
Daneel Workstation (OverworkedStation?)
I plan on upgrading this machine to a Dual Celeron 400 MHz (or faster) with 128 MB RAM per CPU.
I will need to get a larger Ultra SCSI disk, I suppose. I desperately want a high-quality
PCI sound card. An ATI All-in-Wonder (16MB) video board is on that list somewhere. DVD-ROM
would be nice, DVD-RAM would be better. Most of the other junk will probably stay the same.
The main reason for the upgrade is pure power, of course. Actually, I have been fiddling with
audio editing. Dumping some old LPs and tapes to CD. That, bascially, sucks with the current
system. The UltraSCSI disk is the only salvation. It is much faster than the CPU
(unlike the IDE drives), but the CPU isn't really very fast at doing anything. I mean, I
only asked it to process a 120 MB file. Realistically, it is pretty fast for most stuff, but,
this requires massive CPU time to get done in a reasonable time frame. And, I've been wanting
to try Quake II or III (Is that out yet?).
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