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The first system was a single computer (Nurse), an Intel 386 with 8 MB RAM and 800 MB of disk. A few months later this changed to 2 x 4.6 GB disks. "Mother" replaced this system a year later (Dec 1997). "Enigma" arrived a year after this (October 1998), running FreeBSD. Up to now the systems had been stored in CSD, Henry Grattan Building. A move of the systems took place in September 2000, to the Publications Office in the Hub. A desktop computer donated by CA was used as dax.redbrick for CTYI kids, set up in February 2001. A Sun E450 system (largest donation to a student society in DCU, from Sun Microsystems) arrived in April 2001 and went online as "Prodigy". | The first system was a single computer (Nurse), an Intel 386 with 8 MB RAM and 800 MB of disk. A few months later this changed to 2 x 4.6 GB disks. "Mother" replaced this system a year later (Dec 1997). "Enigma" arrived a year after this (October 1998), running FreeBSD. Up to now the systems had been stored in CSD, Henry Grattan Building. A move of the systems took place in September 2000, to the Publications Office in the Hub. A desktop computer donated by CA was used as dax.redbrick for CTYI kids, set up in February 2001. A Sun E450 system (largest donation to a student society in DCU, from Sun Microsystems) arrived in April 2001 and went online as "Prodigy". | ||
Several years later, Redbrick was running on a Sun T2000 donated by colmmacc, and a pair of Dell Poweredge 2650s. A pair of encom disk heavy boxes were both during 2007, one to take over login, and increase users quotas, and one to finally replace enigma, running backups (although, the only original bit of enigma at that point was the case.). The year after, a pair of sun boxes (morpheus and daniel, named after dream from sandman) were bought, one to take over primary services, and one to allow users to play with VMs. A pair of dell poweredge thingies (that's a technical term) were also bought off adverts.ie to do localbackups (when not refusing to boot) and adminy stuff respectively. | |||
=== Education === | === Education === | ||