[ale] server troubles (again)
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 17:03:58 EST 2011
ROFLMAO!
On Dec 15, 2011 4:58 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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