On two occasions I have been asked [by
members of Parliament], ``Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the
machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'' I am
not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
This hardware is in kuchchh.s2.org. It is not very much in use.
- a 486 AT motherboard and a 486/100 processor (1995)
- 3 PCI slots
- 3 16-bit ISA slots
- 1 8-bit ISA slot
- 4 72-pin SIMM slots
- a 16-bit ISA I/O board (1995) with
- an IDE channel
- a floppy controller
- two serial ports (9-pin and 25-pin)
- a parallel port
- a joystic port?
- a PCI Trident TGUI9440 video card with a megabyte? of video memory (1995)
- 3 8 megabyte 72-pin SIMMs, 70ns, FPM
- a 16-bit ISA 3c509b-tpo network interface card which is only slightly broken, the I/O address is hardwired to 240 and the IRQ to either 5 or 7, and the 3com program for reconfiguring the thing seems not to work any longer... (1999)
- a baby-at minitower with a non-original power supply
- a 3.5" floppy drive
- a 3.5" 2 gigabyte Maxtor IDE hard drive (1997)
Kuchchh runs OpenBSD 2.6, 2000-03-19 current version.
This hardware has not been assembled into anything even theoretically usable.