UCC Machines

The UCC runs a variety of different hardware. Not just your old Windows machines, or even the increasingly common GNU/Linux or Mac OS X machines. The UCC likes to run lots of other operating systems and architectures, which are sometimes uncommon or extinct out there in the Real World.

The machines that we're running today are in the table below. Machines for users are on the left; servers sorted by service are on the right.

If you want to know about our old machines, see the section Past Machines. To find out how we name our machines, see Nomenclature.

In the clubroom...

Services...

User Servers	martello manbo mermaid morwong mussel manduba mudhead
Oligoboots	cobbler cybium
DEC Alpha	melanopus
SGI Indigo 2	azure
Macintosh	arctic bowser mario nautilus sultana toad
X-Terms	krycek
Diskless Clients	pitch velvet

Dispense	mermaid (coke and accounting) mussel (snacks)
DNS	mooneye
Files	martello manbo
Flame	mooneye
FTP	mermaid
Login	morwong manbo martello
Mail	mooneye
Routing	madako
Switching	cthuhlu bertoli olive
WaveLAN	flying
Web	mermaid
Webcams	flying kormoran maroon novorossiisk
Logging	nayk
Printers	phosphorus

Also read about our online Coke machine, (almost) online snack machine and online door sensors. Also check out the exciting services these, and our other machines, provide. For the curious, here is a photo of our world class cooling system.

Past Machines

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.

	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
Unix	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 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	cod -- Linux and Windows 98
X-Terminals	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	titanic -- [?] running MacOS version [?] exxon -- [?] running MacOS version [?] bounty -- [?] running MacOS version [?] batavia -- [?] running MacOS version [?] stereo enterprise bw-webcam
NeXT	beige -- NeXT running NeXTstep poobrown -- 50Mhz HP running NeXTstep
BeOS	magenta -- BeBox box running 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 -- ARM which ran KAOS II written by The Organism [JPQ] 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
Other	ben -- IBM 360 which ran MVS when it was the Perth Building Society's twinned (what happened to bill?) main processing system 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 murphyii -- Mini which ran a clone of RSX11, aka neo-Murphy kalahari -- Club refrigerator and freezer snack -- Club snack machine sahara -- Machine room air conditioner
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

Machine Nomenclature:

Unix	Most Unix machines at the UCC have, for most of the club's existence, been given names of fish starting with M. For some reason, fish and the UCC is pretty synonymous. We even had a mobile (like what you give little children) of cardboard fish hanging from the roof for several years.
Oligoboot: Windows/Linux	Continuing the fish theme, machines owned by UCC that dual-boot Windows and Linux are named after fish starting with C. (There are a few other Windows machines in the clubroom, but they are owned by members, rather than the club.)
Thin Clients (thinterms)	In contrast to our NeXT boxes (below), the thinterms - also in black cases - have been named after different shades of black. This has provoked several arguments over whether there are, in fact, shades of black.
X-Terminals	The UCC has a number of X-Terminals, but originally two. Naturally, they were named after the lead characters on The X Files. Subsequent x-terminals have been named after other series characters, specifically The Lone Gunmen.
Macintosh	We have a few Apple Macintoshes that are connected to the LocalTalk or Ethernet networks in our club, and they are named after ships that have sunk in terrible disasters.
NeXT	Our NeXT box, and presumably others if we ever get any, is named after a non-black colour just to confuse the masses when they sit down in front of a black-cased machine.
MS-DOS	Any PCs running anything but Linux are given other names. There is nothing special about them! They used to be named after things hellish, but recently they are being named after dogs (well, those running the evil MS-DOS are).
Cooling devices	Any air-conditioners, freezers or fridges are being named after deserts.

The majority of the UCC's machines have been donated to the Club from various businesses and University Departments. Others have been bought from these groups at minimal prices. Some of these groups have supplied parts for our machines also. A list of these groups can be found on our sponsors page.