[ale] server troubles (again)

[Scott Castaline]

On 12/15/2011 04:49 PM, 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.
>
No, actually mine had a choice of chisel point and weight of hammer, the 
early impact printer
> On Dec 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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>
>             <mailto: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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