I like to have an insane amount of hardware around. In my years of working on NetBSD I've done a ton of different things. Eons ago, I got myself a DEC Alpha, and ported random packages to it. (It was LP64, and back then, everything was written with horrid int->ptr casts that broke 64 bit.) I sent boatloads of patches out to maintainers to rototill their code with 64-bit friendly code. Now everything is 64 bit and stuff doesn't work on 32 anymore.. ha.
I was also the NetBSD PREP and ofppc portmasters. Because of this.. I have a *tonnage* of IBM and assorted PowerPC equipment lying about.
That leads to something like this...
So lets lay out the current inventory:
- Main Systems (stuff I actually use daily)
- alcyone - NetBSD 8.0 - NFS server - AMD 21TB of disk on an Areca array
- wasat - NetBSD 8.0 - External DNS - Intel
- pollux - NetBSD 6.0 - External WWW
- polaris - NetBSD 8.0 - My desktop
- mebsuta - NetBSD 6.0 - Firewall
- PowerPC
- 2 7043's
- 2 7248's
- 3 7009-360's
- 1 7044
- 1 42W
- 1 42T
- 1 Pegasos II
- 1 OpenPower Mac clone
- 1 IBM PowerPC thin client
- 1 Multi-CPU Prep machine
- Sparc
- 1 Ultra-1
- 1 Sparc 1 clone
- 1 Ultra 10 clone
- 2 tadpole laptops
- Alpha
- 2 Alpha's
- Misc
- An HP/700
- An Itanium
- 1 hpcmips NEC MobilePro
- Ancient ARM thin client
- Piles and piles of ancient SCSI disks
It has all served me well over the years.. but it's time to change things up a bit..