Finds in Houston

From: Kent Borg <kentborg_at_borg.org>
Date: Thu Aug 9 08:19:00 2001

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:19:45PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> They're building one of those "video walls" ?

I once toyed with such an idea. A surplus 6-slot Macintosh filled
with 5 video cards and one ethernet card, and 5 original Macintosh
monitors (that was a nice monitor) could be had for pretty cheap.
Several copies of the whole thing could be had for pretty cheap.
Could make a really big data-wall. What fun!

Then I computed how much it would all weigh, how much electricity it
would draw, how much heat it would dump, and how underpowered a mere
Mac IIfx is for so many bits to slop around.

As with my recent purchase of new hardware for my basement server, it
is hard to come up with a computation that makes very old computers
look good against new in price/performance terms.


-kb, the Kent who still wants an ASR-33, but for non-price/performance
reasons.
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 08:19:00 BST