[UCLA-LUG] uzi brags about his machines was Qs about sat IF

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:50:32 -0700

i'm proud to say... i have an ultra 5 (has a 40gig + 8.4gig w/ the 2.2.14
kernel, 128meg ram =)... and that's all i can beat josh in... =p

dec multia (in the CSUA lounge.. buying a hd and cdrom soon)
ultra 5
dual 500 w/ 384meg ram w/ 19" (loaned to a friend) w/ artpad
400mhz fujitsu 5130
5 pentium200/233 w/ 64-128megs or ram boxes (one is a 2mbit wireless
router... can't afford 11bt yet)
1 athlon 650 w/ 21" w/ dvd, cdrom burner
1 k6-200 w/ 4 HD's (17, 6.4, 6.4, 3.4), 2x cdrw burner, 32x cdrom, SCSI
scanner, and SCSI 4x6 cdrom switcher and 96megs ram..

and an assortment of dead 386 laptops, 286 boxes, and old 486 mobo's
converted to those poor pentium boxes...

mike

At 05.31 PM 4.11.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>* Erik Hovland <ehovland@zig.usc.edu> [000411 17:00]:
>> > (I can give an example that the 37.5GB IDE disk in one of my
>> > machine won't work with anything newer than 2.2.14), it should
>> > not impact your classwork.
>> 
>> And what machine would that be, a u5 or u10 perhaps.
>
>Hahahah... no... it's just a machine I've been building up since
>the beginning of time.  It started as this:
>
>pentium-166 with 32MB of RAM, 2.5GB disk, etc. etc...
>
>And now it's a p2-400 with 256MB of RAM, a 3.1GB EIDE system disk,
>a 18.2GB UW-SCSI /home and swap disk, and a 37.5GB /share disk...
>not to mention the upgrades done over time to it (new motherboard,
>new case, etc).  Some parts are still the same.  I have the same
>lame 17" mag monitor (on it's last legs), the same ATI Graphics
>Pro Turbo video card with 4MB of VRAM... the same 3com 3c590 NIC,
>the same floppy drive.  The original 6x CD is out for the 24/4/2
>CD-RW drive... the Ensoniq Soundscape vivo left for an SB 32...
>I stick in a used 2940UW card... and I yanked the analog modem,
>as well as the original disk (which I just gave to Fred a few
>weeks ago for CSUA lounge upgrades).
>
>The only UltraSPARC machine I have here is the 270MHz AXi-based
>loaner from Sun Microelectronics (SME)... granted that between
>myself and yosh (my roommate, and the GIMP maintainer), there
>are 17 machines right now in this apartment... 8 PC's, 8 SPARCs,
>and a PPC machine.
>
>The PC's are:
>* the p2-400 I just described
>* dual p3-600 with 512MB of RAM loaner from work for yosh
>* p2-400 IBM Thinkpad 600E with 192MB of RAM, and 10GB disk for me
>* and ditto one for yosh, both from work
>* my p2-233, 80MB, 4GB Dell Inspiron 3200 notebook
>* cheapy 486-dx2/50 toshiba notebook that is the wavelan wireless
>  ethernet router.  Oh yeah... did I mention we have 11Mbit wavelan
>  cards for all the notebook computers in the apartment?
>* pentium-166, 64MB RAM machine that is yosh's
>* 486 upgraded to a pentium-83 (overdrive) kick-around machine...
>  that at least has a VLB Adaptec SCSI controller
>
>The SPARCs are:
>* My baby... an SS20 with 2 SM71's (75MHz w/1MB cache), a TurboGX+
>  framebuffer, and a 20" 20E20 monitor... I'm on it right now.
>* SS10 with 2 SM61's (60MHz w/1MB cache) kickaround kernel test
>  machine (for sparc32 testing, that is)
>* SS5/70 ... the router machine... also does dhcp, dns, http, smtp,
>  etc... one hell of a router machine.
>* SS5/110 for SS5 testing
>* SS5/170 - a rare TurboSPARC-based SS5... the only common sun4m
>  machine that RH doesn't run on.  (Loaner from SME)
>* The UltraSPARC AXi-based loaner...
>* A SparcClassic (50MHz microsparc-based machine)
>* An SS2... my only sun4c (save the AXi (sun4u), the rest are sun4m).
>  But this SS2 has a special 64MB upgrade board (rare) for a total
>  of 128MB of RAM.
>
>And finally the PPC, which is a 350MHz G3 with a DVD player... and
>let me tell you... combined with the 21" Sony trinitron monitor on
>the dual p3-600 (also from work for yosh), it makes one _hell_ of
>a DVD movie-watching experience.
>
>I do consider buying a U5 at times... no point in getting the U10
>really, since they have the same motherboard... just get a better
>U5 and save a buck if possible...
>
>And Erik... _don't_ say you didn't ask for it... ;)
>
>-- 
>Joshua Uziel, Senior Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
>415.354.4878 tel, 415.701.7457 fax
>uzi@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
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