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From: ccplumb@watmath.UUCP
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Subject: Re: IBM mainframe for sale
Message-ID: <14944@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 23:17:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.14944
Posted: Mon Sep 28 23:17:03 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 01:20:43 EDT
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Reply-To: ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <177200006@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> crayops@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Written 12:58 am  Sep 16, 1987 by rdm@cfcl.UUCP (Richard Morin)
>>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.
>
>Well then, you won't be getting a Cray soon, will you?  Maybe the
>Cray-4 will fit your needs, but by then, it'll be a laptop anyway.
>
>Could I be biased?  Naaaaaaah.

For those of us making do with VAXen and things, what does a cray
require?  I know it has its own heavy-duty cooling (that bench-thing
around it), so it should be able to cope with a reasonable temperature
range, and it would seem odd if it didn't take reasonably standard
voltages - even if you need to run a new feeder cable in to supply the
hundreds of amps a cray draws.

So, except for the fact that "wall current" usually passes through a 15
or 20-amp fuse on its way to the computer, why doesn't a cray fit this
description?

Just curious.
--
	-Colin Plumb (watmath!ccplumb)

..  I think I'll KILL myself by leaping out of this
 14th STOREY WINDOW while reading ERICA JONG'S poetry!!