The UCC has gone through a lot of machines in its 30+ years of operation. We have tried to keep a record of most of the machines that have passed through our club. That way, whenever older members reminisce, with a tear in their eye, the freshers have some hope of knowing what they're talking about.

As things have become more and more prone to virtualisation, some of the newer entries on this list never took a physical form.

Unix

  • Mooneye -- Arrived as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_5x86 in 1999; rebuilt as a dual Pentium-90 in 2001; then a dual Pentium-II-450 in 2005; and copied to a 2GiB RAM DELL PowerEdge 2850 dual Netburst Xeon 3.6GHz between 2010 and 2014. Ran many public-facing services - DNS/bind, mail and mailing lists, Flame MUD, Dispense including door and coke serial ports, volume-charged SOCKS and telnet, doorlogger, Apache websites, ProFTPd, POP mail access and fingerd. Shutdown on 2022-10-10.

  • Midshipman -- Print server for Blacklight

  • Kalashnikov -- Small ARM Ubuntu GNU/Linux desktop

  • Martello

  • Madako -- P4 Xeon running Debian. Did UCC's routing for many years before being replaced by Murasoi

  • Humpback -- Dell, Small form factor PC/Pentium IV running Ubuntu GNU/Linux

  • Mermaid -- UCC's dispense server for many years, running Debian

  • Manduba -- Sun UltraSPARC II running opensolaris

  • Persephone -- Pentium IV running Solaris

  • Flying

  • Sidderrog -- Ultrasparc II running Debian

  • Nayk

  • Mudhead -- 7 machine Dual Alpha cluster running Debian

  • Velvet -- Athlon XP 2000+ netbooting to Debian 2.6

  • Pitch -- Athlon XP 2000+ netbooting to Debian 2.6

  • Azure -- SGI Indigo running IRIX 6.5

  • Melanopus -- DEC Alpha Cluster running ?Debian 2.6?

  • Morwong -- Dual Alpha 833MHz EV68 running Digital Unix (Tru 64) 5.1B (might be resurrected one day)

  • School -- Cluster of 7 Pentiums (1x75,5x100,1x120 MHz) running MOSIX 1.4
  • Sardine -- SPARCclassic running Solaris 7

  • Salmon -- SPARCstation IPX running OpenBSD 2.6

  • Skipjack -- SPARCclassic running OpenBSD 2.6

  • Manta -- MicroVAX II running Ultrix 4.2, (old old uniwa, thyme and arcadia)

  • Mojarra -- 166MHz Intel Pentium running GNU/Linux

  • Erwin -- Silicon Graphics O2 running Irix

  • Scarlet -- Silicon Graphics Indigo2 running Irix

  • Mackerel -- Sun 3/280 running SUNOS 4.1.1

  • Marlin -- 486 running Linux

  • Manbo

  • Marron -- Sun 3/60 running XKernel

  • Mudskipper -- Micro VAX II which ran BSD4.3, (old earwax)

  • Minnow -- VAX 11/730 which ran BSD4.3

  • Moray -- 486 running Linux

  • Mulloway -- Sun 3/180 which ran SunOS4.1.3

  • Mullet -- VAX 11/750 which ran BSD4.3, (old swanee)

  • Starfish -- Star 910/VP running STAROS 4.1.1

  • Munchwabbit -- Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 running IRIX
  • Chartreuse -- Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 running IRIX
  • Meito -- x86 machine running Solaris 9

  • Piggery -- DEC Alpha running Tru64

  • Seriola -- 250Mhz Ultra 30 running Solaris 10

Oligoboot

Windows

X-Terminals

  • Maroon

  • Frohike -- 17" NCD, colour

  • Langly -- 19" NCD, black and white

  • Byers -- 16" NCD, black and white

  • Mulder -- 17" Labtam, 256 colour, 16Mb RAM

  • Scully -- 17" Labtam, 256 colour, 16Mb RAM

  • Skinner -- 19" HP, 256 colour, 12Mb RAM

  • Krycek -- Colour XTerm

Macintosh

NeXT

  • Beige -- NeXT running NeXTstep

  • Poobrown -- 50Mhz HP 9000/715 PA-RISC running NeXTstep

BeOS

CP/M

  • Merlin -- Z80 which acted as robot brain and ran CP/M

Bespoke OSes

  • Marvin -- Club-built 32000 which ran KAOS written by [JvP], hacking by [DDT] in 1988/89.

  • Minimarvin -- Smaller marvin, with special Toad DMA interface for graphics output.

  • Mercury -- UCC-built wire-wrapped ARM2, ran KAOS II written by The Organism [JPQ], reanimated by [NTU][BOB][BG3][TPG][LE@] and more, starting 2014

  • Encee -- A Murphy from McLarty's, had various drives (bob, hazel, crash, burn) and CPUs (ashes2ashes, dust2dust)

Terminal Servers

  • Axolotl -- Cisco STS-10x running Cisco IOS 8.2

Peripherals

  • DECprinter -- A DEC printer

  • Halogen -- An Apple LaserWriter printer

  • Sodium -- An Apple LaserWriter 16/600 laser printer

  • Phosphorous -- An HP 1320N laser printer

MS-DOS

  • Mephistopheles -- The Devil's or DAVil's AT box that ran the UCC's bulletin board for many years

  • Lucifer -- The XT from Hell

  • Rover -- 286 bridge machine running MS-DOS

  • Dogbox -- 386 games machine running MS-DOS

  • Snoopy -- 286 frame grabber machine running MS-DOS

Other

  • Olive -- Cisco Catalyst switch
  • Lorenzo -- Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch
  • Curviceps -- Procurve switch
  • Gibson -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Atacama -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Judean -- Machine room air conditioner
  • Kalahari -- Club refrigerator and freezer

  • Snack -- Club snack machine

  • Sahara -- Machine room air conditioner

  • Ben -- IBM 360 which ran MVS when it was the Perth Building Society's twinned (what happened to Bill?) main processing system

  • MurphyII -- Mini which ran a clone of RSX11, aka neo-Murphy

  • Murphy -- Alpha Micro [PDP-11 clone which had the same assembly language, but different machine code for legal reasons] which ran a clone of RSX11, aka Dr ACC Murphy


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