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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote: Were basically in the preliminary feasibility study stages of building a massively parallel vintage computer. The point? To demonstrate that old hardware that can be picked up for pennies can be combined to attain amazing amounts of computing power. Hans Franke is the project leader. Currently we are talking about the architecture of such a thing. The current wisdom from Hans is to use 1541 drives instead since they would be easier to network and are self-booting, not to mention plentiful and cheap. As we get closer to actually deciding to implement this I'll keep you posted. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always being hassled by the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 01/15/99]