27 Aug
2009
27 Aug
'09
3:44 p.m.
I had one of my kid sister's friends tell me I shouldn't be running
the KS10 because it's so old that it is "ecologically irresponsible"
to run it.
(This person is the daughter of two PETA activists and also believed
that farmers had to kill cows to extract the milk.)
On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:59 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Al Kossow wrote:
Also, are you just talking about the CPU, or
including peripherals?
I was wondering this myself. This is an interesting topic, but it
might be
difficult to define a "standard" configuration for these machines.
Even the
contents of the CPU boxes can vary widely. I suspect that many on
this list
are like me and tend to limit what what boards are in our CPU's to
just what
we need. How many people really need the CIS (Commercial
Instruction Set)
portion of the CPU in their PDP-11/44's or 3 Serial boards for
terminals? I
also limit the drives to what I need typically (I've even been known
to
unplug CD drives on PC's).
Zane