Monday, March 2, 2009

And once again...

Been quite a while...some additions have been made, now have a Challenge S so I have 3 "indy" chassis and another Indigo2 as well, this one has more ram but otherwise isn't as great.  It came with an old beige SGI alps keyboard so I was actually really happy with the purchase, cost me about $30 total which was amazing considering how heavy they are.

Started collecting old macs as well, originally got a Centris 660AV and have 36MB in it now, run it with an external 9GB sun drive which is excellent.  I finally bought some caddies for the cd-rom and installed 8.0 then updated to 8.1, networking works a lot better in it than 7.5, at least it lets me use my supernetted network.  My performa 630 I bought for shipping works great too, stuck in an old 17GB maxtor drive and it runs nicely even for only having 16MB ram, has a normal cd-rom which is nice but does not have ethernet so no fun mac networking for now.

I've ventured into Sun's territory as well, don't have a keyboard or mouse but I have a sparcstation20 in my inventory, my friend said it's a 75MHz SuperSparc II so I'll be able to load up the copy of NextStep that I have, AWESOME.  I really can't wait, he loves running it on his so I really want to load it up.

One thing that was really fun /sarcasm/ was pulling out my electronics rack from the garage and cleaning it out.  Turned out that the fascia on it was too close to the mounts so I had to rip one of the sides off in order to stick any gear in it, how goofy is that.  Loaded up my Extreme switches in it (1, 48, 4, 48i in order) then recently got an HP 4000m and put that in the bottom so it is entirely filled up now, have to get a real rack sometime as they run quite hot since it's meant for front-back air flow and not side-to-side like the extremes are set up for.  I'm good for quite a bit of expansion now, having 192 copper ports on that rack and all haha. :D