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-====== Notes ======
-This physical machine has been retired. Its data/OS install etc have been moved to a new box for ease of transition. See [[piper]]
-Piper.tardis.ed.ac.uk (originally kerouac.weegie.net, then kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk, then fante.weegie.net)
-This machine was bought in around 2000 (I'll get the original date later, I still have the original
-receipt somewhere). It was hosted initially by [[ednet]] (now [[lumison]]) in a rack in their
-assembly street datacentre, whilst I was being employed by them. Having left ednet in (date), it
-was moved to [[caladan]] where it became the main hosting machine for [[projectcolo]]. After growing
-more and more unhappy with Caladan's service, and following the stagnation of [[projectcolo]], the
-machine was moved up to [[scolocate]] where it was hosted by [[sowood_and_co_ltd]] (date). There it
-continued to run the same setup it previously had, but running as a [[uml]] instance. The disks were
-replaced at this point as the previous disks had started showing signs of age (occasional IDE resets).
-The system was replaced Jan 2006 with a [[supermicro]] which could cope far better with the load from
-the number of UML instances. The UML instances were also slowly replaced with XEN instances for
-improved performance.
-The system has been surprisingly stable throughout its lifetime for a budget system. Various other
-broadberry systems purchased by edNET at the same time suffered faults, mainly due to dying fans or
-hard disks. It has never locked up due to a hardware failure to my knowledge.
-This system was the main node for the imaginarynet irc network since 2000.
-I'll clean these notes/placeholders up later
-One [[http://www.broadberry.com|link broadberry]] server
-u in height, could do with some measurements on here for depth
-Oh, and I'll get some photos up!
-Motherboard schematic is shown on the inside of the case
-Case is missing quite a few screws.
-Looks like a 150W PSU
-Two x 200GB disks
-Western Digital WD2000BB-22GUC0 (WD2000)
-RPM 8GB cache
-These will still have a 3 year warranty. I think they may be from silicon group.
-I'll dig out the receipt later and file it in case it is needed.
-Max 512MB Ram is installed on the system (1 PC133 DIMM)
-Motherboard is an i810 based D815EEA
-Dual ethernet card on PCI bus
-Fans are in a bad way, but they system does work. They should be replaced if possible.
-CPU fan blows up (no shit) through a grate at the top. Machine will still function
-with this covered.