I found our old RaQ550 in a stack of servers we never got around to sending to 
recycling.  Along with a DS10 Alphaserver (ran OpenVMS) that we used as a 
RADIUS server.  I know the Raq550 was followed by BlueQuartz on a 1U server 
with an LCD panel maybe from MSI but I can’t find the server or any paperwork 
on it.  Since 2014 we’ve been running BlueOnyx on a Supermicro 4 core Xeon 
server.  We only ever used them as webservers.

 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dan P via AF
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2026 2:02 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan P <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cobalt RaQ

 

Seems like a lifetime ago that I worked on those little blue boxes.  Current 
cellphones have more memory and cpu power than those oldies 

 

From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf 
Of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2026 12:45 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cobalt RaQ

 

i think that was our mailserver when I started

 

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 7:40 AM Richard Strittmatter <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

No, but we did use a bunch of them for a long time!.. I still own raq.net 
<http://raq.net> .. lol

 

Richard Strittmatter

 

From: AF [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On 
Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2026 11:13 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: [AFMUG] Cobalt RaQ

 

Anybody else still using a derivative of the RaQ hosting appliance from Cobalt 
Networks?

 

We had a RaQ, a RaQ3, a RaQ550, then BlueQuartz, and now BlueOnyx.  Looks like 
Cobalt Networks was founded 30 years ago and released the original RaQ in 1998. 
 Sun bought them, shut them down, and released the software under an open 
source license.  Oracle then kind of did the same thing to Sun.

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