<p>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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Scott Castaline" <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
CP/M or DOS?<br>
On 12/15/2011 03:39 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
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Rich,<br>
<br>
256k, 512k or 1Mb of RAM??? And don't forget an IBM Color Graphics Card and a CGA monitor to go with!<br>
<br>
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Rich Faulkner <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>><u></u>> wrote:<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
I'm holding out for my quantum computer...forget the flying<br>
cars....RinL<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
On Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM, "JD" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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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