[tech] Computery Items for Disposal

Tue Jul 10 22:24:04 AWST 2018

Extract of my comments and others from IRC ...

14:51 <dd> <TRS-80> should keep one labtam
14:51 <dd> <frekk> We haven't sorted through the VTs yet, so some of those will need to be relabelled according to whether or not they work and how many we need14:51 <dd> <frekk> (or want)
14:51 <dd> <TRS-80> I will keep morwong, I owe someone a zangband savefile14:51 <dd> <Beowulf> @TRS-80 labtam?
14:51 <dd> <TRS-80> shit I can't remember the root pw, hope my key works14:52 <dd> <TRS-80> 023 scully
14:52 <dd> <TRS-80> an X terminal
14:52 <dd> <Beowulf> Wow for some reason I was reading that as Lastam and didn't put that together14:53 <dd> <TRS-80> bob, nick: is 049 a keep?
14:53 <dd> <Beowulf> I am personally quite amused by 048, the LV-ROM player that is labelled as being property of the BBC14:54 <dd> <frekk> +1 for keeping 049, it is probably the oldest x86 system we own (assuming it works, if not then not worth keeping)14:56 <dd> <Beowulf> I miss the days when computers had power keys... I should mod that in to my workstation15:01 <bob> @TRS-80 if it's not being kept I was going to jump on that one15:03 <bob> can we keep 040 for the ARM2 please
15:03 <bob> I know it's 100V but I think we have a transformer in the coke parts/spares box15:06 <mtearle> My notes ...
15:07 <mtearle> 007 keep as reference machine of that architecture... perhaps get it installed and powered up?15:08 <mtearle> Nick: can you ferret away 11/12/13 away for me ... they do FXO/FXS and I was wanting to set them up to handle the UCC phone at one point ...15:08 <mtearle> 17 can go .. it was eWaste out of a physics skip long ago15:09 <bob> better get in quick before the UCC phone gets done away with15:09 <mtearle> bob: hah, yes
15:09 <bob> 007 I don't think we should keep - itanium as an achitecture is dead, and wasn't particularly novel15:09 <mtearle> 14: rip the PCMCIA wireless card out of it and keep that, the AP can probably be chucked15:09 <bob> the  machine is installed and works, but it never got used
15:10 <mtearle> 23 keep or offer to ACMS.  Labtam were an Australian company so interesting in terms of Australian IT history15:11 <mtearle> 22 - I would drop a line to Fryers.  He had an Apollo fetish15:12 <mtearle> Nick: 25/26 - I'm happy to relieve UCC of
15:13 <mtearle> 44: Keep, example of a DEC MIPS machine, suggest installing NetBSD onto it ...15:14 <mtearle> 47: keep ... old morwong ... does it still work?
15:14 <mtearle> 43: Get Reaps to drag that back to Physics as it is theirs ...15:15 <mtearle> 40: 110V SCSI chassis ... I think it can go
15:16 <mtearle> 32-34 - representative SPARC machines .. keep
15:17 <mtearle> 48: offer online to folk
15:17 <dd> <Beowulf> Thanks for all the great feedback, but it is going to be lost if it is in the main channel. I am going to quickly make a channel for discussing this stuff. Please copy anything important there so we can go through it on the day.15:17 <dd> <Beowulf> Oh wait... it wont mirror to IRC will it... blast
15:17 <mtearle> 49: as noted, take photos of all of the outside, and inside.  I think it can go ...15:18 <mtearle> 50 - no idea of the story ...
15:18 <dd> <Beowulf> Who runs the bot again? How hard is it to mirror a new channel?15:18 <mtearle> BeoWulf: happy to cut and paste and email?
15:18 <mtearle> Address?
15:18 <dd> <Beowulf> If you could send it as a reply to felix's original email to tech@ that is probably best15:19 <dd> <Beowulf> then we have the mailman archives if nothing else
15:19 <dd> <Beowulf> re: 043, I happen to know that the radio telescope this thing was designed to steer has been relocated to gingin, so I very much doubt physics care about it in the slightest

Mark
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Mark Tearle <mtearle at tearle.com>

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, at 2:11 PM, Felix von Perger wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> As a follow-up to the recent "Tech Busybee", we have produced a list
> of the miscellaneous computery thingamies which we intend to dispose
> of on the 21st July (which is the date of our next busybee).> If you are interested in having any of these things, feel free to
> bring it up on Discord/IRC and place dibs on anything you might want
> to take yourself and make sure you attend the upcoming busybee to help
> out and pick it up.> Note that each item has been labelled with a 3-digit unique identifier
> which you may use to refer to that item.> Anything with an orange sticker remaining in the clubroom after the
> busybee on 21/07/2018 will be disposed of in an e-waste skip. If you
> believe a particular item may have significant value and be worth
> selling, please let us know.> Please see the photo album[1] kindly produced by [GOZ] which contains
> photos of all the numbered items which we will be disposing of. A
> short description of each item in the album is also available below:

>  * 000 & 001: PS2/VGA KVM switches
>  * 002: Packeteer PacketShaper 2500
>  * 003: Packeteer 6500 series
>  * 004: VT320, power supply broken(?)
>  * 005: POS terminal (claimed by me)
>  * 006: 3RU server thing (claimed by [CFE])
>  * 007: IA64 Itanium server, donated by [AHC], likely works.
>  * 008-010: SiliconGraphics "O2" IRIX graphics workstations, somewhat
>    functional
>  * 011-013: 10/100 Cisco switches with various voice modules installed
>  * 014: ancient PCMCIA-based 802.11g wifi access point, one radio
>    installed
>  * 015: 8-port D-Link switch
>  * 016: Unknown thing with knobs
>  * 017: Electron Gun Monitor
>  * 018: part of water cooling system
>  * 019: HP Compaq winxp-era Pentium D tower PC
>  * 020: Old LCD monitor from machine room, barely works
>  * 021: VT220
>  * 022: HP apollo series 735
>  * 023: "scully" X terminal
>  * 024: Old speakers
>  * 025-026: Australian Monitor installation series audio amplifiers
>  * 027: Cisco WS-C2948G 48-port "Gigabit" switch from last millenium
>  * 028: StorageTek L20 tape drive
>  * 029: EMC^2 fibre channel switch
>  * 030: 2RU server thingy with 12*SAS 300 drive bays
>  * 032: Sun microsystems Ultra 5 "ultraSPARC" workstation
>  * 031: SiliconGraphics "INDY" workstation
>  * 033 & 034: SunBlade 2000 tower PC
>  * 035: Sun microsystems Enterprise 250 server
>  * 036: SunFire V480 4RU server
>  * 037: Sun external SCSI hard disk enclosure
>  * 038: Sun Sparc classic workstation
>  * 039: External SCSI CD-R drive, 4Xwrite
>  * 040: 100V external SCSI hard disk, missing transformer(?)
>  * 041: 5*Sun JavaStation
>  * 042: novrossiisk (PowerPC Power Mac 7600/200)
>  * 043: Controller electronics & stepper motors for telescope which
>    was on top of Physics building in the late 1900s (which has since
>    been moved elsewhere in WA)
>  * 044: DEC 3000 workstation
>  * 045: Morwong (2RU alpha server)
>  * 046: Morwong parts
>  * 047: Old morwong (Digital AlphaServer 1000A 5/300)
>  * 048: LaserVision LV-ROM player branded "British Broadcasting
>    Corporation"
>  * 049: diakonos (NEC PowerMate 386)
>  * 050: windows 95 era PC with turbo button and dual 3.5" floppy
>    drives> Best regards,

> Felix von Perger
>  UCC Secretary 2018

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