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Humphreys posted:Yesterday I actually was part of a Sneakernet!!! What was the capacity of the hard drives??? Don’t leave us hangin! Also how fast did you drive?
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
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My dad used to work for a private software company, and if some customer from a bumfuck town in the sticks, like Helsinki, needed a software update pronto, he would hop in a taxi (or later his SAAB) with a stack of tapes or discs (not diskettes). Or he'd go without any media and just correct the program by hand.
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May 8, 2023 07:31
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Bargearse posted:Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes How's the QoS on that?
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namlosh posted:What was the capacity of the hard drives??? Don’t leave us hangin! 12x 16TB and 8x 8TB I most definetly drove at the posted speed limit on 100km/h  Bargearse posted:Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes  It actually was in my stationwagon too!
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May 8, 2023 08:47
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Latency sucks rear end though, and retx’s?
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Data Graham posted:Latency sucks rear end though, and retx’s? There's also a congestion problem, and while there is a protocol for priority transfers, it's not really accessible to non-governmental users.
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Computer viking posted:There's also a congestion problem, and while there is a protocol for priority transfers, it's not really accessible to non-governmental users. And the hazards of out of spec traffic data rates.
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Collisions are especially concerning in that specific media configuration.
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May 8, 2023 15:21
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Amazon still does something similar to move around hundreds of petabytes at once, they load a containerised data centre onto a truck and physically drive it around. They call it Snowmobile.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Collisions are especially concerning in that specific media configuration. Tapes might be a little bit more robust in a prang than platters, amazingly they seem to have managed to push the latest lto tapes into holding up to 18Tb uncompressed.
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May 10, 2023 05:23
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Bargearse posted:Amazon still does something similar to move around hundreds of petabytes at once, they load a containerised data centre onto a truck and physically drive it around. They call it Snowmobile. Was it them or Google that did it where the truck trailers are actualyl connected directly and moved around and then dock as expanded storage whereever needed?
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May 10, 2023 08:29
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Humphreys posted:Was it them or Google that did it where the truck trailers are actualyl connected directly and moved around and then dock as expanded storage whereever needed? AWS Snowmobile is a containerized data center(filled with mostly storage arrays and a bit of compute to manage ingest). The container part is done by VertiV (https://www.vertiv.com/en-asia/solutions/prefabricated-data-center/) and is reselled by HPE or Dell, it costs a pretty penny(milion euro range). If you need to start from scratch, doing container modules is cheaper than build your own(OVH attempted to make a container pile as a datacenter but it burned down due to ghetto wiring).
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I discovered that a division of Saab, of planes and cars fame, also used to make minicomputers back in the day. I doubt you'll learn much from these unless you speak børk børk børk, but the 70s visuals are relics indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLQeh0kcbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubNs2bpdB8 Bonus fun fact! quote:After a series of mergers, the name Datasaab became connected with an incident of illegal technology transfer to the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. A 1973 bid for tender for a civilian air traffic control system at the airports in Moscow, Kyiv, and Mineralnye Vody was won by Swedish supplier Stansaab. A contract between Stansaab and Aeroflot was signed in September 1975. However, parts of the delivered system relied on components from the US, for which the Swedes couldn't get the necessary export licenses. So they bought U.S. components, relabeled them and smuggled them to Moscow using Soviet diplomats. Datasaab separated from Saab in 1978 and joined Stansaab in a new company, Datasaab AB. Allegedly the air traffic control system did support the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The smuggling operation was uncovered in October 1980, known as "the Datasaab affair" (Datasaabaffären). In early 1981, Datasaab was acquired by Ericsson and became its computing division Ericsson Information Systems. In April 1984 Ericsson was fined US$3.12 million for breach of U.S. export controls, and agreed to pay.
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May 11, 2023 05:10
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Imagine being as stoked as these guys that a technology you own now longer functions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYpxZ-YSN4
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May 11, 2023 05:38
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It's not like they couldn't watch tv anymore, you could just get a digital tuner.
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The Wurst Poster posted:Imagine being as stoked as these guys that a technology you own now longer functions... That CRT is massive...
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Oh hi there. Why two lenses? I could understand one or three, but two seems weird.
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May 11, 2023 11:26
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It's black and white, obviously.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's black and white, obviously. Nope. 
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I believe you'll find that there's one projector for black and one projector for white 
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KozmoNaut posted:I believe you'll find that there's one projector for black and one projector for white 
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Yes, in order for black and white to look right to the human eye they actually used purple and green, like how Mr. Ed was actually a zebra because horses didn't appear on film or in mirrors
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flavor.flv posted:Yes, in order for black and white to look right to the human eye they actually used purple and green, like how Mr. Ed was actually a zebra because horses didn't appear on film or in mirrors Hah, I bamboozled you! That's not the projector that's Gwyneth Paltrow's chair!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Hah, I bamboozled you! That's not the projector that's Gwyneth Paltrow's chair! Ahem….. Throne
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Trabant posted:
I love this so much, of course that’s the Swedish word for that
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I like how Datasaab AB is short for Data Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget Aktiebolag, or Data The Swedish Aeroplane Limited Company Limited Company. e: Then again Assa Abloy AB is short for August Stenman Stenman August Limited Company L Limited Company Limited Company, where L is short for both Lock Factory and Lock Factory, but in different languages. ee: And, completely unrelatedly but since this is off-topic already I don't care I'll post it any time I think of it: Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen named his son Yrjö Koskinen Yrjö-Koskinen. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 14:21 on May 11, 2023 |
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KozmoNaut posted:It's black and white, obviously. Your joke was not lost on me, have a cookie.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Hah, I bamboozled you! That's not the projector that's Gwyneth Paltrow's chair!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I like how Datasaab AB is short for Data Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget Aktiebolag, or Data The Swedish Aeroplane Limited Company Limited Company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
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I sometimes wonder about my great-grandparents. They got together in NYC back in the 1920s, and had one son who as a toddler. Some years later they moved back to his native Norway, and had their second child, my grandfather. They named him Norman - literally "Norwegian".
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LimaBiker posted:Prisencolinensinainciusol Here's a version with the lyrics... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuXudaGHGs
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What hath science wrought? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXlZXH4aQ5k
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Oh man, I remember when that case came out., It seemed dumb because it just had a big fan on top.
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Obtained another "Casio did massive amounts of blow and came up with this" calculator: https://i.imgur.com/aQnz81h.mp4 As another goon pointed out, it looks like the proto-tricorder.
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I am currently trying to figure out this mystery machine: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve_g5_2.3_dp.html Its an Xserve G5, which shipped without a video card, straight from apple. I dont have the original drives for it, so the OS is long gone. How is one supposed to reinstall MacOS on here with no video output? It doesnt have a mode where it can work over serial, does it?
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You can just install whatever flavour of OSX headless with ARD or SSH from another machine iirc but it’s been fuckin years since I played with a headless mac so I could be wrong
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Trabant posted:Obtained another "Casio did massive amounts of blow and came up with this" calculator: 
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Beve Stuscemi posted:I am currently trying to figure out this mystery machine: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve_g5_2.3_dp.html Pretty sure this era does have a serial mode. Also target disk mode or NetBoot. NetBoot of this era is wild and not PXE. It has been a long long time since I have seen one of those. I would try target mode, install OS X and boot it and ssh in.
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