[rescue] SS10/20 death

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Robert Rose wrote:

> OK, I'll play too...

Here goes:

> > >>  First video game console: Fairchild Channel F
> Um, I never owned one.

ColecoVision.

> > >>  First computer: TI-99/4A
> Commodore VIC-20 (might also count as first video game console if you want)

DEC PDP-11/70

> > >>  First computer that I really got into: Amiga 1000
> An original IBM-PC that I rescued in 1990.

DEC MicroVAX 3200

> > >>  First Sun: 3/50 with 19" mono monitor. 1995.
> 4/370 surplus from work in 1996.

3/80

> > >>  First SPARC: SPARCstation 1 that I paid $700 for in 1995
> Sparc 10/512 that I paid $1k for in 1997.

SPARCstation IPX

As an aside, a Sun 4/370 is a SPARC machine...

> > >>  First SMP machine: Dual-66Mhz BeBox
> Sparc 10 as above.

RS/6000 F30

> > >> First SMP SPARC: SS10, dual SM41s
> And again.

Sun 4/690MP dual SM81

> > >>  Favorite machine:  Probably that first SS1.  It kicked ass.
> Surprisingly, not the Sparc 10.  At the moment the O2.

S/390 G5

> > >>  "biggest" computer I've had an account on: E6500 at work.
> E10K, 40 x 400MHz.
> Do mainframes count?  If Sridhar plays then I guess so.  In that case, I
> should probably mention that I work for a sub-contractor to IBM and have an
> account one one of their internal systems.  Mmmm.. big!

The biggest machine I ever had an account on was fshvmdc.fishkill.ibm.com
which is a parallel sysplex of 16 machines, each of which is a
10-processor IBM z900 with many many GB of primary storage a TB of
secondary storage and 10's of TB of disk.

Peace...  Sridhar