1 Jan
2022
1 Jan
'22
1:19 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:47 PM Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
At 07:50 PM 1/01/2022 +0000, you wrote:
True. But if you're trying to get > $5000 for something, it doesn't seem
unreasonable to suggest that investing a bit in getting an extension cord
run to the location of the machine would be a good idea. The absence of
that effort makes me wonder if the owner knows what the outcome of such a
test would be and doesn't want to have to report it.
But what would that accomplish? I think testing something like this requires a lot
more effort than plugging it in and hitting the circuit
breaker. To test this to see if some ODT comes up probably requires quite a
lot of effort (locate a terminal/pc, wire it up, figure out where to plug
it into the 780, etc. If this guy is a bulk dealer I would be surprised if
he has the knowledge to do anything more than a power test which, again,
would not be very useful and could even be detrimental.
Exactly. The machine has a 3-phase 208/240V plug, they don't have such an
outlet. Their efforts stop right there.
But you're all focussed on that, and missing another important detail. The
machine has a liquid cooling system.
Some of the hoses look like they are Tygon, in the age-decayed brittle
stage. Touch them and they crumble away.
Running the machine without cooling would utterly wreck it. Even if they
solved the mains power problem,
they would be very unwise to actually power it up.
For clarification -- the 11/780 is not liquid cooled. The seller mixed up
some photos between the TU77 listing and the 11/780 listing (the TU77
listing has photos of the 11/780's backplane in it just to make things more
fun). Agreed on all other counts, though, powering this thing up blindly
is a dumb idea.
- Josh