YDAC Facilities

Equipment

The YDAC machine was recently replaced with a server that could host more disk space. The details are given below:

AlphaServer 1000A 5/400 running DEC Unix
- 512 MB memory, 33 GB disks
- Exabyte and DAT drives
- DAT Changer for archive backups
- CD player
- 2 Mbit/s connection to WAN
Other equipment available at MSSL on the LAN
- Laser and dye-sublimation colour printers
- Several PostScript laser printers
- X-terminal access
- CD Writer
- CD Jukebox (capacity 500 CDs)

The old YDAC machine (mssly1), which is a DECstation 3000/400 running DEC Unix with 96 MB of memory, will continue to be available for some time.

Updated: 17-Dec-97
ydac@mssl.ucl.ac.uk