The machine names

I started with 'heroes of the computer revolution'. The subtitle of the book 'Hackers' by Steven Levy. I gathered names and information about the people from that book. I later added names which are part of computer and Internet history but not described in that book.

• gosper Named after Bill Gosper from the early years at MIT AI lab.
  gosper is the new shell server.
  Previous: gosper was the old router, nfsserver, webserver, samba server, mailserver, newsserver and was once X terminal boot server.
• greenblatt Named after Richard Greenblatt from the early years at MIT AI lab.
  greenblatt was workstation with X, a tv-card and sound. The name was in use again for the home server.
• morris Named after Robert Morris ✝, Unix security expert.
  morris is now the network attached storage (NFS/Samba).
  Previous: morris (hardware retired) was router, firewall.
• felsenstein Named after Lee Felsenstein, the first person to envision public-access systems bringing information to a lot of people.
  felsenstein is the webserver for wordpress. Previous: felsenstein (hardware retired) was a HP X Terminal.
• jobs Named after Steve Jobs ✝, founder of Apple Computers.
  Previous: jobs is workstation with X and sound and a CD writer.
• minsky Named after Marvin Minsky ✝ from MIT.
  minsky is the development webserver. Previous: minsky (hardware retired) was a laptop used to copy pictures from CF cards to the fileserver.
• wozniak Named after Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computers.
  wozniak is the router with haproxy and a few basic services. Previous: wozniak was a system for testing OS installs and demonstrating firewall capabilities for the PCgg. Retired.
• metcalfe Named after Robert Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet networking.
  metcalfe now holds the tape drive for backups to tape. Previous: metcalfe was a system mostly playing router, sometimes wireless access point, webserver, asterisk pbx and general server for the PCgg.
• stallman Named after Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation.
  Previous: stallman (hardware retired) was a Sun Sparcstation20 running solaris 2.6 used for testcompiles.
• moore Named after Fred Moore ✝, co-founder of the homebrew computer club.
  moore is currently a laptop. Previous: moore (hardware retired) a Sun Ultra-1 running solaris 8 used for testing stuff.
• turing Named after Alan Turing ✝ who played an important role in the development of computer science and in the Enigma codebreaking in the second world war.
  turing is currently the production webserver. Previous: turing is now running X and the tv-card.
• jacobson Named after Van Jacobson, primary contributor to the TCP/IP stack and well-known for the traceroute program.
  jacobson is a Cisco switch with layer-3 capabilities in use as network switch and for me to learn stuff about IOS, especially about IOS and IPv6.
• ritchie Names after Dennis Ritchie ✝, co-creator of Unix, did a lot on the C programming language.
  ritchie was the weatherstation in the shed.
  Previous: the wardriving box which automatically finds and logs wireless networks.
• thompson, named after Ken Thompson, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of Unix.
  thompson is a desktop system with audio editing and amateur radio software.
• kernighan, named after Brian Kernighan, the K in K & R and co-creator of Unix.
  kernighan is a multi-purpose laptop.
• joy, named after Bill Joy, the creator of the vi editor and one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.
  joy is a Raspberry Pi3 doing some radio stuff.
• neumann, named after John von Neumann ✝, one of the founding figures in computing and computer architecture.
  neumann is a Raspberry Pi3 reading data from the smart meter.
• henkp named after Henk Penning ✝ who got me interested in ntp time synchronization.
  henkp is a Raspberry Pi3 ntp server, using gps reception.
• perlman, named after Radia Perlman, computer programmer and network engineer who has done major work in computer networks, especially known for the Spanning Tree Protocol.
  perlman is a desktop system with amateur radio software.