[ale] server troubles (again)

[Jim Kinney]

Ha! It didn't have tubes at least! It was an industrial computer that was
used on the production floor of the GE mid size transformer plant in Rome,
Ga in 1977.
I hacked on the tape reader so it worked to load the "OS" instead of 12
hours of toggle switches. So GE bought a four word switch bank and a screen
output since they didn't have to buy a tape reader. Saleman was PISSED! IBM
or Wang. Don't recall.
On Dec 15, 2011 4:55 PM, "Rich Faulkner" <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:

> **
> 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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