Re: low-MHz server [OT]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:16:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/04/08 22:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]

The problem is real. There is no placebo effect to worry about.

Currently, Athlon64 box is as far from my wife as possible (70 feet).
Based on our experience of other high-MHz or GHz devices, she would have
to be at least 250 - 500 feet away. To avoid this problem, we have to

If you live in an urban or suburban area, you *probably live less
than 75m from your neighbors and their high-MHz PC, and *definitely*
150m from them.

Well, we're in farm country, The houses are 70' from the edge of the
road. Our nearest neighbour is across the street: 70' + 70' + 40' =
170' to their front door plus however far to their microwave and PC. It
is a factor over which I have little controll. I do have control over
my own server.


Besides, EM radiation drops in intensity with the square of the
distance.

How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines?


With a head ache, of course.

Or stand it when the neighbor turns on the microwave oven?


:)

Are you stocking up on incandescent bulbs? They'll be going away
"soon".


It will be a few years.

[big snippage]

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Boxes and their limiting specs which I have looked into (in no
particular order).

AlphaServer 2100 min 250 Mhz

God those are ancient... We had those back in the mid-1990s.


I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520.

Right. Its ancient, mid-1990's technology for which I am looking. One
that will take the memory and drives to handle today's software and
data-set size. Unfortunatly, that was during the shift from propriatary
busses to standardization on PCI. For example, by the time IBM RS/6000
PPC boxes used PCI, they were just over 200 MHz. They were nice looking
boxes, able to keep three PCI busses busy: two full scsi busses feeding
two gigabit networks while running around 300 MHz with 4 PPCs. They
still command a high price. I've never heard of anyone having one die
on them.

Ron, what other ancient hardware do you remember that may be suitable.
I can browse eBay, search eg: "166 MHz -GHz" for each MHz about which I
am aware, but I can't do that for the wider Google-land. Are there big
server boxes that I am overlooking?

I'm also going to look into scsi drive holders in case I end up with a
server with few bays.

Thanks Ron,

Doug.


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