[ale] server troubles (again)

Rich Faulkner rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Thu Dec 15 16:52:25 EST 2011


Well, I did say 1987.  Not 1947....  : P


On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:49 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:

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