[rescue] advice on rescuing an e10k

Jerry Kemp sun.mail.list at oryx.cc
Mon Dec 4 09:20:18 CST 2006


Same here.  My winter computer is a Sun E4500 with 8*400Mhz cpu's with 
SunRay's.

During winter months, the computer room is the most popular room in the 
house.

Jerry


Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Aaron Finley writes ...
>> I've never understood people who buy old, power hungry 
>> hardware to actually *use*.
> 
> Well, how about "buy" in the sense of "pick it up off the curb?"
> 
> My SGI Challenge L is big, loud, and hot.  It's ten times the mass of my
> experimental dual/dual/hyperhtreaded x86 machine, but it's also ten times as
> much fun.
> 
> I don't worry about the power consumption; we're all-electric, and the
> Challenge heats the house just as efficiently as the furnace.
> 
> -Shel
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