I call this site “Household Enterprise Computing,” because I first entered this realm within the context of my private tinkering. I never worked in a company that exposed me to any of the equipment I work with. Rather, in college, I had access to a lot of exotic equipment. While most people were tweaking their PeeCees, I was in the Electronics Club at RPI rebuilding old IBM RS/6000 POWERstation 320’s, learning the intricacies of some Sun 3/280’s, and figuring out how to boot some VAXstations.

In time, I had also aquired a personal collection of equipment quite unlike your average college student. I’ve taken it with me out into the real world now, albeit with some upgrades.

I soon realized that I had aquired a personal wealth of knowledge in the area of working with these machines, and figured it would be a good idea to assemble a site to bring together those like myself. I had also assembled a poor prototype HEC site, which never went anywhere.

Then, a few months ago, I got myself an SGI FibreVault (CLARiiON FC5500) RAID box to play with. Of course information on these units is not very well published. So I set out upon the web and dug out as much information as I could. As a benefit to others, I collected this information in a web page. I had no idea how popular and helpful this page would become. Though with the inrush of e-mails, I figured I had finally found the content to kick off a good and useful HEC site. I took in some content from the old page, such as the intro text and geek colors, added more content, and here we go!