[rescue] Personal Progressions

[Al Potter]

First video game console: Game console?!?, WTF? I have COMPUTERS, why do I
	need one of those?!?
First computer used: DEC PDP8 (1979)
First computer owned: Timex Sinclaire, bought it, did the numerical analysis
	homework that I needed it for, and returned it within 30 days.  It
	sucked rocks, but I have regretted getting rid of it ever since.
First computer that I really got into:  My NEC Multispeed laptop, circa 
	1987-88.  It saved my ass many times over, and AFAIK, is still in		service 
with the person I sold it to
First Sun used:  Gee....., J. Random DARPAnet host...
First Sun owned: 4/370, circa 1993
First SPARC owned: see above
First SMP machine: Sun 4/670, circa 1997, courtesy of some PHB in Rational		
Software, who decided NT was the better enterprise computing platform.
	I still have this beast.  It was my first rescue, BTW...
Favorite machine used: My SMP linux box (2x 550s).  Soon to be my NEW SMP 
linux
	 box (2x 1G).  Cheap, screaming horsepower is hard to argue with....
Favorite machine owned: A hybrid.....  It's a 4/610 (a 4/600 board in a 4/110
	chassis).  I have two of these running now (always looking for donor
	110 chassis....).  Best-est one is a quad SM51 rig I got from Big Mike
	w/ 128 smegma-bytes of RAM...
Biggest machine I have root on: Hmmmm....  your biggest.....
	Seriously, am building a dual athelon honker for one of the projects
	at the office.  Box will have 1 GB of ram, .7 TB of servable disk in
	RAID 5, all for about $4500.  This is a proof-of-concept box, if it
	works well, next one will prolly top out at around 3 TB for about 2x
	the $$.  I LIKE bang-for-the-buck projects....



Wondering about Sparc clustering,.....  I have lots of little sparcs that want to work together.....





AL