On Sat, 7/20/13, Bob Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 87, Issue 56 To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 6:07 PM On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:50 PM, <[email protected]>wrote: > Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories "MicroVAX? Ha! I had a VAX 11/780 system in my suburban living room. " LOL, That had to be one HOT living room....We are dismantling the subfloor ac units now in at work server room since we longer need that kind of cooling for "servers"... Man, times have changed quickly ---------------------------
I've never had the 'pleasure' of working with such old hardware, but I've seen it not even getting one bid at auction for scrap. A complete one of those IBM tape drive arrays, original price almost a third of a million dollars, size of all the machines in a laundromat, capacity not even 2 gigabytes. No Sale. IIRC 2 gig USB sticks were the latest thing at the time. Someone in IT probably remarked "We could replace all this with a single $100 USB stick..." and the bean counters said "Make it so!". Another one was a massive hard drive rack, about half of which was power supplies and cooling fans. The drives were all pulled and stacked inside the scrapyard building. If they'd been something normal like SCA80 instead of weird proprietary IBM I would have bagged a few for the vintage Macintoshes I had. 9 gig is massive storage for Mac OS 8 and older. I counted up the drive slots, times 9.1 gig... it was a one terabyte array! 500 gig single drives had just been introduced that year. That hulk had most likely been replaced by one rack box with a RAID5 array of four 500 gig drives. Imagine the power bill reduction. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
