[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

Tue Nov 26 22:25:44 CST 2002

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:20:28PM -0500, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:09:50AM -0500, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> > > 25-40?  *Any* S/390 can do that.  Even the oldest ones.
> >
> > So, what do they cost, with some amount of storage, say 40GB of disk?
> 
> The smallest DASD's I've seen are an order of magnitude bigger than that.

That is, 400GB, is that correct?

> > Right now I am buying Athlons and quite frankly, things are getting a
> > little toasty in the server room, even though it will soon be freezing
> > here in PA; I have the AC on energy saver cycle set at 69F and that
> > seems to work well.
> >
> > Maybe overall it would be cheaper to run a single S390.
> 
> What is the total power consumption of all your PC's?

Say 20 machines X 100W continuous?  The Athlon 1700XPs especially put
out the heat.

Cordially
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