[SunRescue] 3/60 crate

[Paul Khoury]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:16:01 -0500 (EST), Greg A. Woods wrote:
>I'd air-condition the machine room in the basement but that would make
>the power bill even higher -- meanwhile it's not really too hot for
>mostly surplus gear that's had lots of burn-in time anyway....  The only
>thing I really worry about are the UPS batteries -- they're some of the
>most expensive things I've spent cash money on!
>
auction.apcc.com - cheap UPS's, sometimes the price of the batteries themselves.
>Power here is currently $0.0746/kWh.  If it were half that I could more
>easily afford to run a couple of my 3/260's and the necessary
>air-conditioners too in addition to the current equipment, but at ~800w
>each, and all of that converted to heat too I could only run them in the
>depth of winter anyway....
>
>Now if I had free power I'd fire up the PDP-11's in the garage too and
>at least in the winter it could be a nice cosy workspace too!  :-)
>

PDP-11's eh?  Always wanted to play with one of those, and a Vax 11/780.
Then again, I've always WANTED a Vax 11/780... *grin*

Paul