Donated a SUN workstation which served as server for the
Zoology network during the transition time from the old single-machine
structure of our deparmental computing system. It provided the year
and a half "proof of concept" that was needed for our more modular
network before departmental funds were made available to buy a
permanent server.
Bill Wellington
gave us our first Macintosh when he retired. It was a Mac SE.
It and it's descendants are called "cirrus".
Jamie Smith
Bought a brand new machine (an AT) to be shared by all in the
computing room. It and its descendants are called "bird".
Judy Myers
Bought a brand new machine (an AT) to be shared by all in the
computing room. It and its descendants are called "weed".
Charley Krebs
Gave us Stella software for the Mac. This is really neat
modelling software. Basically, you build a running model by drawing
the flowchart.
Charley also donated "octopus", which was a spiffy '386 in its
time.
Michael Whitlock
gave us the Macintosh 7200/90 called "jackalope" and its 17"
monitor.
Chris Airriess
gave us the 56K modem that is on our line 822-5070. The other
two lines are still 14.4K baud modems.
Bob Adams (Mathematics)
Donated a complete NeXT cube system, which cost $29,000 back
in 1991. Included is a 21" colour monitor, cube, printer, scanner,
and CD-ROM. It is presently on loan to Forestry where they are using its
video digitizing abilities. We call his machine "apple" just for fun.
Unrelated note: for years the mathematicians were big users of our
computing facility until they set up their own departmental system.
Tony Pitcher
has given us several functioning Pentium 133's, which we will
be putting to work as network infrastructure running free UNIX
(FreeBSD).
