Item 51. Minutes from the 1/8/97 Special Board Meeting Valerie Mates (valerie) Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (08:55). 56 lines, 1 response. Minutes from the 1/8/97 special board meeting: Present: ajax, aruba, drew, janc, robh, scg, steve, valerie, and, briefly, telephonically, scott. (Of those people, the board members are: aruba, janc, robh, scg, valerie, and scott. The missing board member was mta.) The official text of the motion we passed was: Motion: (valerie, scg) To allocate $2500 for a Sun 4/370, a Sun 4/600 motherboard, 2 SM41 CPUs, 128 megabytes of RAM, a Sun 4/600 memory expansion board, shipping, and, if possible, an internal CD-ROM drive. The motion passed unanimously (5-0-0). That was it -- it was a brief board meeting, because its only purpose was to allocate funding for this purchase. Here's more detail that Jan posted about the thoughts behind the decision: >Item 30, #103 Jan Wolter(janc) on Thu Jan 9 18:48:39 1997: > Last night the board gave approval to purchase: > The Sun 4/370 from property disposition > we already have this. We mainly plan to use the case from it. > A Sun 4/6xx motherboard > this plugs into the case and has sockets for CPUs. > Two SM41 CPUs > The 4/600 is a multiprocessor architecture. We can run using either > both CPUs or one, so having two gives us some redundancy if one > fails and a lot more speed if both work OK. > 128 MB of ram in 4 Meg 30-in SIMMs. > This goes on the motherboard. We'll buy one spare SIMM too. This > will give us the same amount of memory as Grex would now have if > we could convince it to run reliably with all its memory cards in. > Expansion Memory Board > This is for future expansion. The boards we want are a bit rare (you > can put a lot of memory on the mother board in these systems so not > so many expansion board for them were ever sold), and we thought we > saw a good deal on one, so we'd like to go after this. > > We estimated a total price for this around $2400. The actual price will > depend on what Rob can locate and negotiate. He's good at this. > > We will use our old ALM cards (serial interface for modems) and, I suppose, > the old SCSI controllers (I don't remember if there is one on the Sun 4/6xx > motherboard), which we already have plenty of spares of. Other than that, > this is a whole new computer, which would probably be (wild ballpark guess) > eight times faster than our current system, and will have much more > expandability. It should be a system we can grow on for a fair amount of > time. > > We will also be keeping our eyes open for a spare case, motherboard and other > equipment. We would prefer to have spare parts for everything. But in the > short run, our main backup system would be the current Sun 4/260 system. ----------