On Friday 12 December 2003 22:07, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > > What card? I recently got in an HP Kayak XW workstation with an
> > > HP Visualize fx6 that originally listed for $40,000(!) It takes
> > > up the AGP slot and the adjacent PCI slot. It runs as hot as the
> > > Sun (and consumes amazing amounts of energy).
> > >
> > > They run on eBay for $75-$100 these days.
> >
> > It's an fx4.
>
> That listed for $26,205 in October 1997 (congratulations: you own a
> piece of hardware that cost as much as your car did, but lost way
> more value).
You're just about right on... my '98 Camry in Sept '97 cost about $23k.
However, it doesn't even come close to comparing to the toy I'm getting
next week... don't worry, I'll feel the need to boast about it on the
list once it's in the door. : )
> It's still one bad-assed video card, but again, the problem is that
> they consume megawatts of power (ok, not literally, but you get the
> idea). I ran my server for a few minutes and then went to pull the
> card and it nearly burned my hand. Those heat sinks need a couple
> fans.
>
> By the way, (OT) the BIOS on my HP Kayak XW apparently got zapped.
> I'm trying to run the emergency flash procedure (you set a swicth on
> the motherboard and then it boots off the floppy, loading the flash
> program and running it) but it's not working for me. The computer
> definitely loads the program off the floppy but then hangs. I don't
> hear the beeps I'm supposed to. I verified that the disk has no
> errors.
I don't personally have any experience with them. I avoid anything that
is made by Intel that costs me more than $5. : )
Pat
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Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 22:03:24 GMT