Sponsors
Compsoc has been fortunate in finding a variety of organisations who have been prepared to help us in one way or another. Here we list a few of the major donors.
AMD
AMD donated a computer in Hilary 2002. Read the full report.
In Hilary 2007, they donated another computer, after the previous one lost its magic smoke.
Department of Astrophysics
In Hilary 2005 the Department of Astrophysics in Oxford donated a server to Compsoc.
CI-Net
CI-Net, formerly Community Internet, is an Oxford based internet service provider which provides colocation outside of the University network for Stanley, and used to provide a secondary DNS server.
Black Cat Networks
Black Cat used to provide web hosting and domain names to small users. They sponsored our termcard on several occasions, provided secondary DNS for us, and used to provide our primary DNS server.
Energis Squared (formerly Planet Online)
Until April 2007 Energis Squared provided a secondary DNS server, hosting outside .ox.ac.uk for stanley, and handled secondary MX.
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
In late 2002 IMM donated Compsoc a Compaq Proliant server and RAID array.
US Warburg (formerly Warburg Dillon Read)
WDR became involved with the society in 1998. They attended a few talks as guests, presented their own talk on "Big Brother" and subsequently donated a substantial amount of equipment to the society. This donation included two Sun UltraSparcs, a Hewlett-Packard C110 and a range of SCSI disk and tape drives. Read the report on this event.
DecisionSoft Ltd
DecisionSoft provided the entire funding behind our old Intel based user machine and have also given several talks about XML and Cold Fusion. More information on DecisionSoft's contributions is available.
Progress Computer Systems Ltd
Daffy, which was our main server for a long time, was donated by Progress Computer Systems in 1995.
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford University
In a clear-out of parts, the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics allowed a group of mad Compsoc members to pillage a room of old computer equipment. In the two car loads removed there are a lot of parts which might have got into use by our members if not the Society.
Mondus
Mondus made a substantial cash donation of £500. This was used in the celebrations of Compsoc's twenty first anniversary in 2000 as well as to cover general running expenses.