[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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