Otter

Otter is a Sun 3/160 in a 12 slot VME-Bus case with 12 MB main memory and a Hitachi DK515S SCSI hard drive (670 MB).

The following (older) rear view shows the different cards in the slots (from left to right):

1. Sun 3004 CPU
2. (empty)
3. (empty)
4. (empty)
5. 4 MB memory (Original Sun)
6. 4 MB memory (Original Sun)
7. Sun2 SCSI Controller (internal)
8. Sun2 SCSI Controller (external)
9. Empty slot with SCSI connector
10. (empty)
11. (empty)
12. (empty)

Stations of the machine

• Day of Birth: 10.09.1986
• One of two (later three) servers of the computer centre of the c.s. deptm. (IRZ) of the university of Kaiserslautern, Germany for the undergrad education (domino.informatik.uni-kl.de)
• Since 1995: "Borrowed" to Peter Koch, Upgrade to a 3/260
• Jul. 1999: Rebuild of the Sun 3/160
• Since then: Retirement (nashorn.pz.pirmasens.de)
• July 2001: renamed to Otter

Copyright 1999-2007