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From: djl@mips.UUCP (Dan Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM mainframe for sale
Message-ID: <699@winchester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 06:56:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: winchest.699
Posted: Tue Sep 22 06:56:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:35:36 EDT
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Summary: Some small machines are Big on punch

In article <46300008@uicsrd>, kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> > Richard Morin ({hoptoad,ptsfa}!cfcl!rdm) writes:
> > 
> > I made a firm decision a few years ago which has served me well ever
> > since:  Never buy equipment that won't run in an unconditioned room
> > on standard wall current.
> 
> Sounds like you don't use anything larger than a workstation, maybe a
> small Microvax.  Nowhere near the power of a 3033.

Hummm, I am sitting in a room with three machines, each plugged into a
wall socket (standard 110v 15 amp).  The room is pleasantly cool, but
is conditioned exactly the same as the rest of the office space.  The
floor is carpeted.

The machines in this room have a total of 24 Mg. of memory (8 Mg. each,
they are small ones), ~1 Gig of disk space, and combined CPU power of 15
VAX 11/780's.  I call that larger than a "small Microvax".

There is another office in this building with 4 such R2000 based machines in it,
totaling 23 MIPS, over 70 Mg. of memory, and over 3 Gig of disk.  It is a bit
warm, but it also has 4 people and a big window facing South.

Welcome to the late 1980's...

-- 
			***dan

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