[ale] server troubles (again)

[Jim Kinney]

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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