[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Sep 18 13:36:53 CDT 2005


On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:10:02AM -0700, Isaac wrote:
> Of course, their 6-year-old E4500's that run the databases are reliable
> now, but there was that whole sordid ecache episode. I guess even good
> hardware has its bad runs.

My favorite machine that was ohno.mrbill.net for a while was a E3K with
six 333Mhz CPUs and 3G of RAM.  Unfortunately, it took up too much rack
space and used too much power (I blew the breaker for the rack once).

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
K5WCB Houston, TX



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