1973 |
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1974 |
- UCC Constitution adopted
- UCC acquires an IBM 1620
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1975 |
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1976 |
- UWA Department of Computer Science founded.
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1977 |
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1978 |
- UCC purchases an Alpha Micro, affectionately known as Murphy, for $20,000
- UCC obtains a club room in the Guild Building
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1979 |
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1980 |
- UCC Constitution amended.
- UCC wins a award from the Silver Jubilee Trust for Young Australians
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1981 |
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1982 |
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1983 |
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1984 |
- Marvin, a 'very cool, very powerful' NS32 000 series S100 bus computer was constructed by UCC
- [DAV] arrived. (?)
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1985 |
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1986 |
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1987 |
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1988 |
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1989 |
- The Great 15th Anniversary Carpet Auction held.
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1990 |
- Flame BBS came into existence, running on Remote Access.
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1991 |
- UCC received mullet (a VAX 11/750) and minnow (a VAX 11/730).
- UCC moved from Guild Hall to a room in Cameron Hall.
- The machine minnow died a horrible death.
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1992 |
- UCC bought mackerel. (?)
- Flame became a MUD and found a new home on mullet.
- UCC moved to a specially-constructed room in Cameron Hall.
- The UCC drink machine arrived.
- The machine mullet died a horrible death.
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1993 |
- UCC installed its first gopher server.
- UCC failed to escape UniSFA.
- Accounting software for the drink machine was written.
- Electronic door lock is bought. (?)
- The machine mullet died a horrible death.
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1994 |
- UCC gopher server died.
- UCC installed first web server.
- Jager left. (?)
- UCC bought culler off UWA Centre for Water Resources.
- Our mac machines titanic and exxon appeared.
- Door sensors were given internet access.
- Radio option added to [DAV]tronics amplifier.
- UCC obtained old UWA machine earwax. (?)
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1995 |
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1996 |
- Mac machines bounty and batavia arrived.
- UCC obtained axolotl and mermaid.
- Machine room constructed.
- Doorbell installed.
- UCC Constitution amended.
- SMD drive controller on mackerel died after many years.
- SPARC upgrade bought and installed on mackerel.
- 4.3Gb hard drive bought.
- Cyrix 686 chip bought.
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1997 |
- Snack machine discarded as unsuitable.
- BeBox tinkered with.
- Digital CRO purchased.
- Old Madvax donated.
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1998 |
- Sparc 1 Plus donated by Sun.
- UCC Web pages completely revamped.
- UCC Room cabled with Cat 5 UTP.
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1999 |
- Another snack machine is obtained.
- Several SGI machines obtained from Hammersley Iron.
- mussel, a dual Celeron, is purchased.
- 25th Anniversary dinner held at the Rydges.
- UCC wins "Best Club of 1999" award.
- UCC purchases an ethernet switch.
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2000 |
- erwin, the SGI O2, dies from motherboard failure.
- morwong, an AlphaServer 1000A, is purchased.
- UCC becomes NISed, with dominance (formerly kraken) as master.
- poobrown, an HP apollo, is donated.
- Rhapsody (OS X pre-beta) installed on nautilus
- hydra, the new router, created.
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2001 |
- mussel upgraded to be a dual pentium III 750
- cod, a console box is created from parts purchased and taken from mussel
- cobbler constructed
- mooneye dies a horrible death and is reborn as a dual pentium 90
- kormoran, a Macintosh LC (?) donated and set up for webcam capture.
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2002 |
- UCC clubroom gets a power upgrade, freeing up more than ten powerboards
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2005 |
- [RPS], [AHC] and [LGM], working at UCS work out feasibility of providing unmetered internet access for residential students at UWA and associated groups, including UCC
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2006 |
- UWA resnet comes online, includes provisions for UCC to receive unmetered Internet access from UWA ITS for the first time, though at commercial rates.
- UCC coke expands to service UWA ITS, with coke sales profits covering Internet costs
- [TRS] sets up magic routing + NAT to use fast aarnet link for unmetered peering traffic and slower resnet for commercial traffic
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2007 |
- Many UCCans leave ITS, leading to withdrawal of UCC coke service
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2009 |
- June: The club is robbed. Most of the tools, consoles and gaming machines are stolen
- July: [BOB] joins the club...and starts rebuilding
- The first of the great spartan forkbombs happens
- October: The first of the great projects bench machines, coblet, is born from the ashes of cobbler and velvet
- [BOB] throws out the fishmobile
- A futon couch is acquired, and the old armchairs ragequit
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2010 |
January
- Pinball, to be the best linux clubroom machine for the next two years, is donated to the club
March
- [MRD] negotiates free internet for the club, saving UCC thousands of dollars per year
- UCC gets its first Windows server, Maaxen, a sun V20z running Server 2008
- The Great Storm of Perth hits UCC on March 22, smashing the skylights and all the windows in the clubroom and machine room
- Most of the club machines and equipment get wet, causing over $50,000 worth of damage
- The clubroom is out of bounds for three weeks while the carpet is ripped up, power is checked, and an insurance inventory is taken
- Despite the damage, committee and wheel manage to get mail and core services up in Arts within 24 hours of the storm
- The last CRT screen is retired from the UCC clubroom
April
- Antarctica, a 5.3kW Kelvinator, is purchased for the machine room to replace the aircons that had been destroyed in the storm
- Portaloo, a half-height rack, is acquired for the machine room
- Coconut and palm, Cisco 2948G's, are purchased from Arts
- Humpback updated to Ubuntu 10.04
May
- Lorenzo dies a fiery death when it forgets its entire config, and gets replaced by coconut
- Characid, a core2duo is donated for the clubroom by [SJY]
July
- Catfish, a six core AMD box, is purchased for the clubroom
August
- The club gets an amazing insurance payout from the storm, allowing it to recover from what would otherwise have been a crippling blow
- Napoli, an iMac is purchased for the clubroom. The fanboys finally shut up.
September
- UCC internal network becomes completely gigabit
- A hot-air rework station is purchased for the projects bench
October
- [BOB] starts the incorporation move, not knowing what he was getting himself into. Over 100 emails are sent to the list about the constitution in a month
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2011 |
February
- Someone thought it was a good idea to see if spartan's forkbomb still worked on mussel. It did.
- Motsugo is purchased by the club with member donations, replaces martello as primary user server
March
- Mermaid is retired, and merlo is purchased to replace it
- [TPG] rewrites dispense and deploys it, an achievement that no member had been able to do in 17 years
June
- The machine room gets a complete (internal) rebuild; two new racks, a UPS, cable management, most things put on rails, new power distribution
- [FEL] donates 24G of RAM, completely filling all slots on motsugo
- Nine months after the first proposal, UCC finally gets its certificate of incorporation
August
- UCC camp is revived in the form of an intervarsity camp with ComSSA and CASSA
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