Guys take a look at this qbus cpu board on Ebay :-)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Apr 19 04:27:26 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> There is no shortage of real PDP-11's around here, the biggest problem I
> have with them is a lack of air conditioning, and the cost of electricity.
> I've been using my /73 enough this month that I'm scared to see what the
> electric bill is going to be (thanks to the idiots in California, our rates
> up here are sky high).

I hear that.

> As for PDP-10's, I'm happy emulating them, though I wouldn't say no to a
> TOAD-1 :^) What can I say, I don't like big old disk drives.

With a little bit of doing, you can make a SCSI 10.

> Something certain people on this list need to consider is that a
> properly constructed PC with a decent OS (of which there are many) is
> rock solid. The only reason the system I'm running the emulators on
> has had any downtime is for some power problems a month or so ago
> (since I don't have an UPS, my G4/450 PowerMac and Alpha's went down
> as well). If I move the emulators to better hardware it will probably
> be to a dual processor Xeon system I'm putting together. I just wish
> I'd had a spot to put the quad Xeon I passed on yesterday!

You do I have a point. I have a bunch of really nice PC's here, and they
all hold their own versus various workstations. But, on the whole, the
world of the PC definitely caters closer to the LCD than a lot of other
kinds of hardware.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 04:27:26 BST

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