[HECnet] Humour - Unix Haters Guide now up on CHIMPY:: !

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 10/03/2013 10:35 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Yeah I may. I don't really have much o a place for it. A year or two
ago I was walking around through old datacenters on site and found
much of a buried 11/780. I wiped off the broken flourscent bulbs that
were laying on top of it, petted it in a joking amber (well, mostly
jokingly) and left the room. Not sure if it was scrapped or is still
there.

Yow.

Go check.   I'll show up with a truck.   (assuming you're in the USA)

Anyhow I did cart off a micro pdp 11/87 (?!?) that looked like it had
never been powered on (racked with about 20 others). Got a gate pass
for it but never brought it home hoping id soon be able to find a pdp
/ Vax implementation on FPGA soon and forgo the storage and power
(fire hazard?!?).

Fire hazard??

And I assume you mean 11/83.   But that's a very small, relatively
low-power-consumption machine.   Go grab it!

If it's low-power like a VS4000/60 grab me one too!   You said you found
several! ;)

It's not quite THAT low power, but it's close.   Probably less than
3x...i.e., nothing to worry about.   Mine pulls something like 275W.


That's not bad at all.   My V210s pulled more than 3x 60W or so.

                            -Dave



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