Limm 

Limm is an upgraded Sun 3/160: it has a Motorola 68020 running at 16 MHz, 24 Mb of RAM, 600 Mb of SCSI HDD (after I removed the original two, 5.25-inch MFM drives totalling 170 Mb). This machine is normally kept off because of its power consumption. It comes with a power supply the size of a normal PC mini tower case. The PSU is rated at 1.2 KWatts. 400 Watts of this power is converted to heat right in the power supply ― instant space heater! The remaining 800 Watts are enough to power around 1000 Palm Pilots (each of which, incidentally, packs as much CPU power as the 3/160). Limm is made up of 9U VME cards. It takes up to a dozen of these 5kg, 40x40cm beasts. The machine runs SunOS 4.1.1 (retronamed Solaris 1 by Sun) and various flavours of BSD. This machine is used for learning. These days, it's mostly a support for our makeshift desk (it's twice as wide as a max tower PC case, and a good 15cm taller). It came with gazillions of huge VME boards, heavy enough to be used for medieval torture ('Cardinal Fang! Tie her to the Helios 12 Mb board and give the Ciprico Rimfire a twist!'). STR.

Limm (along with Vennëa) are deities from a recent mythology (I'm tempted to say ‘artificial’, but then again...). They're the two deities of Zuchroshtala, a concave world where the sun hangs in the centre of everything and the moon rotates around the sun. It's a weird world. People at the poles get year-long full moons rotating around the zenith, where the North Star would be on Earth. The equator is treated to total eclipses of the sun once daily. This is from a role playing world I devised years ago. It was very thoroughly specified, but we never really got to play more than a couple of game sessions in it. Limm is the sun god of the place (appropriate for a Sun machine). He's associated with such seemingly unrelated activities as wanton destruction, reaching goals, endings, chaos, but also the arts. Along with his consort Vennëa (or vice versa ― Zuchroshtan society is matriarchical), they form a balance of power and are more or less associated with every possible behaviour and activity of their worshippers.