-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 08:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520.
Amber screen? Get a DECserver and then the F5(?) key lets you break to a terminal server prompt and log into another machine. The VT lets you switch between 4 different logins. > Right. Its ancient, mid-1990's technology for which I am looking. One > that will take the memory and drives to handle today's software and > data-set size. Unfortunatly, that was during the shift from propriatary > busses to standardization on PCI. For example, by the time IBM RS/6000 > PPC boxes used PCI, they were just over 200 MHz. They were nice looking > boxes, able to keep three PCI busses busy: two full scsi busses feeding > two gigabit networks while running around 300 MHz with 4 PPCs. They > still command a high price. I've never heard of anyone having one die > on them. > > Ron, what other ancient hardware do you remember that may be suitable. > I can browse eBay, search eg: "166 MHz -GHz" for each MHz about which I > am aware, but I can't do that for the wider Google-land. Are there big > server boxes that I am overlooking? Geez, that's sooooo long ago. The slowest active machines that we have are AlphaServer 4100s running at 300MHz, and they were rolled in by Sungard as replacements for systems destroyed in 9/11. Even the older AS100A machines were upgraded quite a few years ago to 400Mz. I strongly urge you to create EMF shield cages around modern systems and run old X Terminals as displays. The VXT 2000 and a 19" monitor was a sweet system, but only had 4MB RAM. Maybe an old PC with a beefy PCI video card would be better. > I'm also going to look into scsi drive holders in case I end up with a > server with few bays. > > Thanks Ron, - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqI9MS9HxQb37XmcRAvdaAJ9uI2JwDtM4F3AI6xtJyGgH4tGp5wCfYaOg EXe1JFUPi/1cx7OK7dzdlvI= =lHw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
