[ale] server troubles (again)
Lightner, Jeff
JLightner at water.com
Thu Dec 15 17:03:27 EST 2011
Reminds me of the old (Dilbert maybe) comic where one guy claims they had to do everything with ones and zeros. The next guy says they only had zeros. The last guy says "You had zeros? We had to work with capital ohs!"
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Scott Castaline
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:56 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] server troubles (again)
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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