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Well, I did say 1987. Not 1947.... : P<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:49 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<BR>
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You had an os choice!? All I had was a row of 8 toggle switches and a separate "insert/commit" switch. <BR>
Oh. And it could write to paper punch tape but not read from it. The reader was on a plotter in another building.<BR>
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On Dec 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Scott Castaline" <<A HREF="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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CP/M or DOS?<BR>
On 12/15/2011 03:39 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:<BR>
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Rich,<BR>
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256k, 512k or 1Mb of RAM??? And don't forget an IBM Color Graphics Card and a CGA monitor to go with!<BR>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Rich Faulkner <<A HREF="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</A> <mailto:<A HREF="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</A>>> wrote:<BR>
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I remember back when my dream machine included dual 5-1/4"<BR>
floppies and a dual 10MB HDDs! Big thinking for 1987.........the<BR>
rest of the spec has been lost in layers of dust in time....<BR>
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I'm holding out for my quantum computer...forget the flying<BR>
cars....RinL<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:23 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<BR>
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Heh, heh. I'm holding out for a quad socket magney-cours box with<BR>
12 cores each chip and 512GB RAM and x8 3TB drives.<BR>
:-)<BR>
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On Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM, "JD" <<A HREF="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</A><BR>
<mailto:<A HREF="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</A>>> wrote:<BR>
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On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:<BR>
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote:<BR>
>> Hi,<BR>
>><BR>
>> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1<BR>
>> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.<BR>
><BR>
> I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers<BR>
on the table<BR>
> as well.<BR>
><BR>
> Downsides:<BR>
> MCA SCSI Drives<BR>
> 2U Form Factor<BR>
> Needs rails<BR>
> Noisy (belongs in a rack)<BR>
><BR>
> Upside:<BR>
> Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs<BR>
> Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed<BR>
> 4096MB Ram<BR>
> Dual Power Supplies<BR>
><BR>
> Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.<BR>
><BR>
> I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number<BR>
crunching. Between<BR>
> the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my<BR>
office and one<BR>
> is already buried in a rack.<BR>
><BR>
> We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.<BR>
><BR>
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Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a<BR>
libvirt box with a<BR>
few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.<BR>
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