[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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