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From: Doug Smith <savant-technopath@cyber-wizard.com>
To: speakup@linux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: small super computer
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:58:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140701145820.GA4643@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B2A81E.8030000@math.wisc.edu>



Well, thank you for the info.  I was just wondering because I was looking for a great research platform.  I was probably going to put talking arch or 
something on there and see what I could find to get into.  You're right.  We have just a room here and it is shared by 2 people.  Imagine the 
consternation when my roommate would have heard that thing start up.  

The loudest computer room I have ever been was the time I was at Western Carolina University and we went into the mainframe room to see what all the 
campus was using at the  time.  

There were VAX-8500's, two of them, daisy wheel or some kind of loud line printers, 3 of them, and terminal controllers with fans on them, I am not 
sure if it was 2 or 3 of those.  Those fans were real howlers as well.  With all that going at the same time and one of the fans shaking the floor as 
it turned, probably because it was out of balance, it sounded like you were in the engine room of a sovereign class starship.  I wish I had had a 
recorder.  You wouldn't have believed the noise.  I was barely able to hear the person telling me about all the things in there and saying "Don't 
touch any of these controls."

Thanks for all the info.  I have always been interested in supercomputers and have wanted one for a research platform and keep this for my system to 
do other work on.  This is really an interesting discussion and that was good thinking to get your shoes and socks dried out.  




-- 
Doug Smith: Special Agent
S.W.A.T  Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology
Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST.


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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 installing slackware on a very fast machine Jude DaShiell
 ` John G. Heim
   ` Doug Smith
     ` John G. Heim
       ` Doug Smith
         ` small super computer (was: slackware) John G. Heim
           ` Doug Smith
             ` small super computer John G. Heim
           ` small super computer (was: slackware) Trevor Astrope
             ` small super computer John G. Heim
               ` Doug Smith [this message]
                 ` Trevor Astrope
                   ` Doug Smith
                     ` John G. Heim

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