Re: low-MHz server [OT]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On 02/05/08 08:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
>
> I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520.
Amber screen?
Get a DECserver and then the F5(?) key lets you break to a terminal
server prompt and log into another machine. The VT lets you switch
between 4 different logins.
> Right. Its ancient, mid-1990's technology for which I am looking. One
> that will take the memory and drives to handle today's software and
> data-set size. Unfortunatly, that was during the shift from propriatary
> busses to standardization on PCI. For example, by the time IBM RS/6000
> PPC boxes used PCI, they were just over 200 MHz. They were nice looking
> boxes, able to keep three PCI busses busy: two full scsi busses feeding
> two gigabit networks while running around 300 MHz with 4 PPCs. They
> still command a high price. I've never heard of anyone having one die
> on them.
>
> Ron, what other ancient hardware do you remember that may be suitable.
> I can browse eBay, search eg: "166 MHz -GHz" for each MHz about which I
> am aware, but I can't do that for the wider Google-land. Are there big
> server boxes that I am overlooking?
Geez, that's sooooo long ago. The slowest active machines that we
have are AlphaServer 4100s running at 300MHz, and they were rolled
in by Sungard as replacements for systems destroyed in 9/11.
Even the older AS100A machines were upgraded quite a few years ago
to 400Mz.
I strongly urge you to create EMF shield cages around modern systems
and run old X Terminals as displays. The VXT 2000 and a 19" monitor
was a sweet system, but only had 4MB RAM. Maybe an old PC with a
beefy PCI video card would be better.
> I'm also going to look into scsi drive holders in case I end up with a
> server with few bays.
>
> Thanks Ron,
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFHqI9MS9HxQb37XmcRAvdaAJ9uI2JwDtM4F3AI6xtJyGgH4tGp5wCfYaOg
EXe1JFUPi/1cx7OK7dzdlvI=
=lHw0
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: