Phred's Hardware and Software Configuration

Phred.org current consists of two machines, one running FreeBSD (phred.org) and one running Windows NT (catfood.phred.org). The picture above was taken with the primary phred.org partially disassembled, and while catfood.phred.org was installing Windows 2000 RC1. There is a third machine shown as well (the one that phred.org is sitting on) which is used as a NAT/Proxy server for other computers in the house.

Each of the computers has its own keyboards, but there is only one monitor for the three machines. I manually switch it between machines when necessary. I generally don't need to do this very often, as all three machines can be administrated remotely.

phred.org

• Hardware:
  • Motherboard: Tyan 430VX-based w/ 256k cache
  • CPU: Intel Pentium 100
  • Memory: 2*32meg EDO SIMMs (64 megs total)
  • Video: Some crappy ISA VGA card
  • SCSI: Adaptec 2940U
  • Ethernet: Intel Etherexpress 10/100
  • Disks: 2 Seagate 2G Barracuda
  • Tape: One Archive Python DDS-DC DAT drive
  • CD-ROM: SCSI Sanyo 4x
• Software:
  • FreeBSD 2.2.x
  • Sendmail
  • UW IMAP/POP servers
  • Apache
  • ssh 1.x
  • yabbs
  • nntpcache

catfood.phred.org

• Hardware:
  • System: Dell Optiplex GXM133
  • CPU: Intel Pentium 133
  • Memory: 4*16meg SIMMs (64 megs total)
  • Video: Onboard PCI S3
  • SCSI: Adaptec 2940
  • Ethernet: Linksys PCI 10/100
  • Disk: 1 Seagate 2G Hawk
• Software:
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • IIS 5.0, including Windows NT SMTP Server
  • Terminal Server

Misc support hardware

• Cisco 675 DSL Router
• 4 port 10base-T hub
• Tripplite 400VA UPS
• Teknika 14" really old monitor (designed for EGA and the Amiga, with a homemade cable that kind of allows it to do 640x480 VGA)

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