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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14896
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 - 2:58 pm: | 
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TarPit Coder
Citizen
Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 79
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 9:38 am: |
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Hey Tom, I remember you saying you had an iMac beastie. Did you put OSX on it or something more lightweight?
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14950
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 10:13 am: |
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I did. It's a 233 MHz Bondi Blue iMac. I had to load MacOS 10.3 on it several times to get it right. It was really hard with a 4 GB disk, so I dug up a 40 GB disk and used that.
Noticing I still wasn't using the machine, I loaded Ubuntu Linux on it. That works fine, though I can't say it's much faster. And after finally having changed my habit from using the ctrl key for everything to using the Apple key, I had to switch back with Linux.
And now I notice I'm still not using this machine. It's slow and noisy and uses about 100 watts. Maybe one day I'll find a use for it. It sure looks handsome.
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TarPit Coder
Citizen
Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 84
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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I have a dual processor Sparc clone that is much the same - Tatung U2MP. It has a gig of ram, dual Ultrasparc II 360 cpu's (4megs cache on each), and is in general a pretty good sparc box. Trouble is it is insanely loud and a power hog. It's probably on a par than a Dual core P4... you get the idea.
It is a machine suited to keeping an arctic research lab warm - If they had excess electricity available from say a spare nuclear-reactor.
When I'm not crunching data I really want a box that uses say 1W, is all solid-state and has say battery backed up RAM.
At least your Mac power usage includes the monitor. My Tatung gets toasty headless.
--Tarp
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TarPit Coder
Citizen
Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 85
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 12:56 pm: |
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I have a dual processor Sparc clone that is much the same - Tatung U2MP. It has a gig of ram, dual Ultrasparc II 360 cpu's (4megs cache on each), and is in general a pretty good sparc box. Trouble is it is insanely loud and a power hog. It's probably on a par than a Dual core P4... you get the idea.
It is a machine suited to keeping an arctic research lab warm - If they had excess electricity available from say a spare nuclear-reactor.
When I'm not crunching data I really want a box that uses say 1W, is all solid-state and has say battery backed up RAM.
At least your Mac power usage includes the monitor. My Tatung gets toasty headless.
--Tarp
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15003
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 1:08 pm: |
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How much power does it consume?
A colleague of mine is giving away a four-processor sparc 20. Interested?
You may want to restore an old laptop for your purposes, if "crunch power" isn't that important. The battery is almost like a UPS.
Do you have a wattmeter? I like my Kill A Watt which measures watts, volts, kilowatt-hours, and maybe more.
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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1430
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 2:57 pm: |
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Whoa whoa...id like to chop shop that one and create a gaming rig |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15014
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 2:59 pm: |
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Actually, there are TWO systems, each a four-processor sparcstation 20. Are you interested?
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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1431
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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Sounds like a deal. How far would it be to pick them up? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15015
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 4:40 pm: |
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I'll find out. Please email me at noglider@pobox.com
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TarPit Coder
Citizen
Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 86
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 6:05 pm: |
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Tom,
I need to exercise restraint collecting the beasties. I don't actually have a wattmeter here - been meaning to get one for ages.
Dunno how much juice they suck but judging by the heat I would guess that doing a nice big compile or raytrace on it (both CPU's loaded up) it's GOTTA be > 300 watts. It has respectible memory bandwidth if I remember rightly - about half my Duron 1200, which isn't bad considering the vintage.
I wonder if your mate has upgraded those 20's to 4 x 200 Mhz Hypersparc CPU's - that would officially make Glocks chopping em into peecees a truely wicked crime.
Glock - Dunno if you could cram everything into the '20 case. You might get somewhere if you started with a laptop...
--Tarp |
Politicalmon
Citizen
Username: Politicalmon
Post Number: 212
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 6:27 pm: |
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Why are there no Apple G4 or G5 machines used?
Still in high demand? I'd love to get a used one for desktop video to replace my ancient Quadra 840AV w/ Radius VideoVison digitizer. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 15016
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 7:06 pm: |
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Politicalmon, check out: http://www.lowendmac.com/deals.shtml
Glock, I hope you realize that the sparcstation is 100% PC-INcompatible.
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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1432
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 11:17 am: |
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I sent an email this morning. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1434
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 1:02 pm: |
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Ah if they're gone that's ok. We were gonna take em to my friend and his dad and see what we could do. They work on computers in their basement (we're talking 5 or 6 computers sitting down there right now being worked on...each one serves a different purpose...hardware testing, software testing, OS testing etc etc) |
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