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Tolka was initally owned by CSD (DCU's Computer Server Department). It was the student login server till it got replaced with Camac. CSD then kindly donated Tolka to RedBrick on 11/02/2003. | Tolka was initally owned by CSD (DCU's Computer Server Department). It was the student login server till it got replaced with Camac. Whenever the Redbrick login server went down, there would be a rush of logins on tolka :-) CSD then kindly donated Tolka to RedBrick on 11/02/2003. On Monday 23rd October 2006 Tolka was removed from the server room, to make room for new hardware. It has since been donated. | ||
On Monday 23rd October 2006 Tolka was removed from the server room, to make room for new hardware. It has since been donated. | |||
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Revision as of 14:31, 14 November 2006
Tolka
Details
| Type: | Digital Alpha 2000A |
| OS: | Debian |
| CPU: | 2 x SuperSPARC 75MHz |
| RAM: | 160MB |
| Storage: | Onboard SCSI controller |
| Disks: | 2 x 1GB SCSI disk |
| Drives: | Internal SCSI CDROM |
| Network: | le0 (onboard) |
| le1 (expansion) [currently unused] | |
| Extras: | Sun 256 colour graphics card [currently unused] |
| The Name: | The name Tolka was chosen after the River Tolka which runs close to DCU. |
Description
Tolka was initally owned by CSD (DCU's Computer Server Department). It was the student login server till it got replaced with Camac. Whenever the Redbrick login server went down, there would be a rush of logins on tolka :-) CSD then kindly donated Tolka to RedBrick on 11/02/2003. On Monday 23rd October 2006 Tolka was removed from the server room, to make room for new hardware. It has since been donated.
Services
None at present.