Re: FREE TO A GOOD HOME

From: Lord Isildur (isildur_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 05/23/03 

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:53:18 -0400 (EDT)

hehehe the only hardware i have that uses 3-phase is the vax 6000.
ive never run it, since i have the guts of one, but no cabinet, and
i never did the sinlge phase conversion. Others have, though.

my power bill isn't too high. i dont actually _run_ most of this gear.
At the height, when vaxpower.org was hosted on machines at home, i had
a DECstation, 2 VT320s, a VT420, a vax 4k/600, an alpha 3000/600, and lots of
disks running public access 24 hours a day, and occasionally had a vaxstation
4k60 and a microvax-3 up a lot, too.. when i was hacking 4.3bsd to run
on the 4k/600, i did builds on the uvax-3, ftp'ed kernels or boot blocks
to a vs3100/48 that was sharing its second scsi bus with a CMD cqd443 on
the 4600, and write test code to the dual-homed disk to try booting from
on the 4600... avoided power cycling and hardware rearrangement that way.. :)

But yeah, i never intended to accumulate this much stuff.. just you know,
you see a vax sitting on a loading dock, or in the hall being thrown out,
you take it home.. you see a vax 200 miles away being junked, you rent a
truck and bring it home *grin*
I'm planning on moving in th enext year or so, and i dont want to take huge
amounts of stuff with me. All the computers heavier than i can carry with
ease are going away. Some i've put on sort of permanent loan to the cmu
computer club.. the bulk of it just went out on the list you saw,
some more of it is being sold (notably the lisp machine, since i actually
bought that), and im looking to trade the 4000/600 for a 3100/9[56] or a 4105A
with similar specs (128 MB, SCSI)..
In the winter, i dont mind keeping more machines on- i pay for the heat
either on the gas bill or the electric bill hehehe

Isildur

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Chris Olive wrote:
> Not only did Isildur not throw the One Ring back into the fiery mountain
> of doom, he couldn't bear to ever part with a machine that he came into
> possession of as well... 8-) (Until now, ergo this posting to c.o.v...)
>
> Good grief. The local power company must LOVE you, dude. Are you
> actually running 3-phase in your home????!!? This makes my 10-node
> network at home look like a starter pack.
>
> Chris
> -----
> Chris Olive
> Systems Consultant
> Raytheon Technical Services Corporation
> Indianapolis, IN
>
> email: olivec(AT)indy(DOT)raytheon(DOT)com
>
>

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