[ale] server troubles (again)

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 16:00:59 EST 2011


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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