[tech] Some bits'n'pieces

[Grahame Bowland]

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:38:18AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:34:52AM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> > > A guy at work (Justin Couch) just upgraded his home machine, so has
> > > some spare components he's willing to give away for token amounts.
> > > Does ucc want any of it?
> > >   P90 Chip (With genuine fdiv bug)
> > >   M/Board for above
> > >   Scsi card (forget the designation, pci)
> > >   Matrox Impression+ (No X support outside of metro-x as far as I know)
> > > Part-time student. Full-time Programmer. 
> > 
> > Depending on the cost, the P90 + motherboard might be good to put 
> > in a rack mount case. We could run some BSD on it as a user box. 
> > (or something else :-)
> 
> Spoke to Leighton about it - I think we should bung it into one of 
> the rackmount cases and build the router into it.
> If we want to use some of those PCI ethernet cards in the router, we're
> gonna need some more horsepower.

We bought three Tulips, one for mermaid and two for the router. 
It just hasn't happened yet :-)

By the way, can you please get those iiNet packs back to them?
They rang -again- today and I have a suspicion we'll start getting 
nasty letters soon.

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