Agora consists of the following hardware:

    133 Mhz Pentium(R) processor, 64 Meg RAM
    ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE 
    1.44 Meg 3 1/2" floppy
    Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter
    2G HP DAT tape drive
    2 x Quantum 2G SCSI hard disk
    1 x Maxtor 1.4G SCSI hard disk
    SMC EtherPower 10 Ethernet adapter
    2 x Boca 2016 serial controller

Hermes (the local news server) consists of:

    486-DX2/66, 32 Meg RAM
    1.44 Meg 3 1/2" floppy
    2 x Fujitsu 1G SCSI hard disk
    1 x Quantum 4G SCSI hard disk
    Compex (WD 8013 clone) Ethernet controller

Agora is running FreeBSD 2.1.0 Unix, and is connected
to RAINet (and via RAINet, the Internet) via a Morning
Star Express router and a T1 (1.544 Mbps, 1 Mbps committed)
Frame Relay line.

Standard services include shell, SLIP, email, USENET,
Internet and various games.  The preferred mail user
agent is elm; the preferred newsreader is nn, but rn,
tass, tin and vn are also available.  telnet, ftp, www
and gopher access are also provided.  Users may publish
web pages as well.