Bison
Bison is a Sun 3/260
server in a 12 slot VME-Bus case.
Its processor is a Motorola 68020 at 25 MHz. It has 24 MB main
memory, one Hitachi DK515C-78 5.25" (full height) SCSI disks
(650 MB) on an internal Sun-2 SCSI controller and a
Sun-3 SCSI controller with an external connector.
The following (older) rear view shows the different
cards in the slots (from left to right):
- Sun 3200 CPU
- (empty)
- 8 MB Memory (original Sun)
- 8 MB Memory (original Sun)
- 8 MB Memory (Parity Systems)
- 8 MB Memory (Parity Systems)
- (empty)
- Sun2 SCSI Controller (external)
- (empty)
- Ciprico Rimfire 3200
- (empty)
- (empty)
Let's have a look at the upper compartment of the 3/260 chassis.
There is enough room for several hard disks and you can place one
(full height) or two (half height) device(s) that are accessible
from the front like tape or CDROM drives.
The brown front panel is so ugly that i painted it blue.
I've attached a thermometer at the front so i could measure
the heat inside (with the outdoor probe which is attached
near the 68020) and the surrounding temperature (with the
indoor probe).
While the picture was taken, the machine wasn't powererd up.
Else the outdoor temperature would have been 10 degrees
Celsius above the indoor temperature.
Stations of the machine
- Day of Birth: 1.11.1987
- One of two main servers of the centre for computing supported
engeneering (ZRI) of the university of Kaiserslautern, Germany
(uklzrib; Yes, this were the times of UUCP and before DNS)
- Renamed to uklzrib.informatik.uni-kl.de
- Renamed to mainz.informatik.uni-kl.de
- Since 1993: private machine of Peter Koch (simmern.informatik.uni-kl.de)
- Since 1994: upgraded to a 3/460 with parts of a 3/470, the 3200 CPU was dropped aside as spare part
- Since Sep. 1995 private machine of Peter Koch at the german research centre for artificial intelligence (DFKI) (exot-305.dfki.uni-kl.de)
- Since Oct. 1996 YP master server of the Pirmasenser Zeitung (carthago.pz.pirmasens.de), a daily newspaper in Germany
- End of 1998: Retirement (bison.pz.pirmasens.de)
Copyright 1999-2007