19 Mar
1997
19 Mar
'97
4:19 a.m.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:55:54 -0700, Jim Strickland spake thusly
unto us:
[...] sounds like an interesting collection... but an
expensive one
to power up.
All in all, the minis aren't that bad on power. The Novas only draw
a couple hundred watts and usually aren't powered on at the same time.
The pdp11/34a is a hog, though; the month I started working on that one
the power bill went to $75.
I believe the largest amount of computer power running in the
house at once was the time when my wife had both PCs up and I had my
DECstation, VAXstation, and InterAct fired up at the same time. The
LAN took a beating that day.
I assume you've read Soul of the New Machine about
the Data General
push to a 32 bit response to the VAX?
What DG "head" hasn't?
Cheers.
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