Computers

The Concordia University McNaughton Center is probably the best place to find stuff which should belong in a museum -- basically, anything we can pick up for free. Of course, how many times has someone sent you a Word 8.0/2000 document and you weren't able to open it on UNIX? That means spending money, getting something less antiquidated... (and makes a sysadmin's job all the more difficult when running under a stiff budget...)

We share this room with the IEEE Computer Society, and the pieces of the systems are owned by the two societies. Currently, we have three functional "modern" systems. Our general purpose systems:

Intel PentiumIII 733-133 with 30 GB of hard disk space, 128 MB SDRAM PC133, a 32x Creative CD-ROM, a generic Yamaha-based soundcard, a D-Link 10Base2/T combo network card based on the RT8029 chipset, ATI 3D Charger 8 MB AGP with a 15" monitor capable of 1024x768x60Hz, hooked up to an Okidata OL400e laser printer.
AMD K6-2 300 with 4 GB of hard disk space, 128 MB SDRAM, some ATI RageIIc PCI video card, a generic 10Base2/5/T network card, an HP 8100i 4x EIDE CD writer and a 15" TTX monitor capable of 800x600x75Hz.

Our dedicated web/mail server:

PentiumClassic 120 in an Intel430VX-based motherboard with 4 GB of hard disk space, 48 MB SDRAM PC66, a generic 10Base2/5/T network card, an 8x Acer CD-ROM,3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive, a Cirrus Logic ISA video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible ISA network card.

Looking around, we also have a lot of discarded equipments picked up from the other departments, including, and more or less limited to:

A trio of Sun 3/50 (MC68020-based monochrome 8 MB systems, shared framebuffer)
3 huge Sun 17" monochrome monitors (which go with Sun 3/50s)
half a dozen VT420s
a few 286 and 386 motherboards
a few internal modems
a semi-functional 486 with 16 MB of RAM
an HP Paintjet without a power supply
an Epson 9-pin printer
an old Okidata 24-pin printer
a few power supplies
a modern Sun monitor with Sun connector
a few VGA monitors
a few keyboards
etc.