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haha, remember back in the day when there was heavy computer. its really heavy and bulky. big like xbox. heavy like xbox. weighs 200+ lbs. you can squash bugs with the heavy computer. crush a human skull too. heavy computer is not for the faint of heart. what are some heavy computers of yesteryear and what do u think are some heavy computers of today? 
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i need Big Hands to use android sometimes. android requires man hands
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Nov 23, 2017 04:37
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I got a friend a Sun 386i yesterday, it was pretty heavy the top module has room for two full-height 5.25in SCSI devices
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Nov 23, 2017 04:56
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most heavy computer i ever done was an old HP file server. antique 832 thing with a 25mhz PA-RISC CPU. not a microprocessor, the cpu board has seven chips on it doing addition, multiplication, etc under big heat sinks. had to disassemble and recycle it. good thing it had casters because it weighed 200 lbs. I saved the CPU card with the ROMs and so on.
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Nov 23, 2017 05:12
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I know someone with a pallet with two VAXstations 3100 and two VAXstations 3520 on it, including color framebuffers, in the Bay Area if anyone wants them the VAXstations 3100 will probably just work but the 3520 may need some maintenance; the nice thing is, though, that they can all run VMS (for which you can get a hobbyist license) and the 3520 are dual-CPU you could build a personal-use VAXcluster eschaton fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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Nov 23, 2017 05:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng6THTJW2LY
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Nov 23, 2017 05:27
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eschaton posted:I know someone with a pallet with two VAXstations 3100 and two VAXstations 3520 on it, including color framebuffers, in the Bay Area if anyone wants them i want it, but i cannot take it at least not until sometime this winter
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Nov 23, 2017 05:39
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I may literally try to cram the 3520 units into the back seats of my car (they’re not that big) or maybe even the trunk, if they’ll lay flat they don’t deserve to go to the dump and I’m sure that given time they will find a good home
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Nov 23, 2017 05:41
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comedy option: yosmas miracles I will not pallet ship for yosmas, I will not pallet ship for yosmas…
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Nov 23, 2017 05:42
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Nov 23, 2017 05:57
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https://www.instagram.com/p/36y_adBPK3/
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Nov 23, 2017 06:05
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it's a heavy computer, op you might even say it's...big iron
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Nov 23, 2017 06:11
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eschaton posted:I got a friend a Sun 386i yesterday, it was pretty heavy very cool eschaton, between this and the lispM posting, I think you and I would get along irl
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Nov 23, 2017 06:28
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atomicthumbs posted:i want it, but i cannot take it wuss a 3100 is a microprocessor vax. it’s the size of a very small desktop pc. draws about as much power as a lightbulb.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:30
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Nov 23, 2017 07:17
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big tower big power
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Nov 23, 2017 07:19
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Nov 23, 2017 07:27
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 heavy, but it has multiple computer
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Nov 23, 2017 08:16
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:wuss 3100's fine. the 3250s won't fit into my 8x20 storage unit, a good portion of which is already filled with old and funy computer.
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Nov 23, 2017 09:02
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the VAXstation 3520 isn’t that big, maybe the size of three full-size tower PCs lashed together it’s closer to two-drawer file cabinet size than washing machine size, which is why I’m thinking I may be able to fit two of them in my back seat
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Nov 23, 2017 09:48
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:eschaton, between this and the lispM posting, I think you and I would get along irl well yeah, beards of a feather and all that any time you’re out in the Bay Area beer and/or whisky can be made to happen
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Nov 23, 2017 09:49
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Nov 23, 2017 13:39
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heavy computer is predujiced against disgustingly fat people who arent able to lift heavy computer into their house. only the fittest of people deserve the best and most cores
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Nov 23, 2017 17:31
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can you imagine accidentally dropping heavy computer on your foot? oweeee!
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Dec 2, 2017 06:26
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i moved a heavy computer today with a fork lift
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Dec 2, 2017 06:27
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Dec 3, 2017 02:38
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Bloody posted:i moved a heavy computer today with a fork lift desire to know more intensifies
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Dec 3, 2017 03:37
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i did a spit take until i read the tiny print in the corner hpe bought sgi just to print these ads
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Dec 3, 2017 05:31
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lmao
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Dec 3, 2017 05:36
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i did a spit take until i read the tiny print in the corner yeah that was my first thought when I saw it "HP is really making the most of that SGI purchase"
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Dec 3, 2017 06:13
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i did a spit take until i read the tiny print in the corner so at this point, HPE = HP + Apollo + DEC + SGI + Compaq if only they’d bought Sun too eh? (or realized the problem when “the #2 workstation company bought the #3 workstation company to become the #4 workstation company”)
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Dec 3, 2017 07:26
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eschaton posted:so at this point, modern-day hpe wanted very badly to buy sun microsystems, and the pdfs leaked from the oracle v. hp settlements are amazing. the world which might have been. pour one out for our homies at sun http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/6-1623009.pdf hpe had a hell of a vision with respect to sun assets. and i don't mean that in some kind of sarcastic corporate "vision" sense. i mean that the MBAs at hpe actually had a coherent plan to reshape the industry for the better, both for their own business and for customers. oracle executed the sun acquisition competently, in that they achieved many of the economies of scale and scope they projected, but i feel the industry as a whole is impoverished by that particular outcome. hpe and ibm had more community-centric plans in mind  eschaton posted:(or realized the problem when “the #2 workstation company bought the #3 workstation company to become the #4 workstation company”) forget workstations the #2 commodity server company bought #1. and their fusion created #2. fiorina was queen of scams. the woman left oracle under a cloud of fraud, and destroyed two american giants. (lest we imagine it is strictly misogyny in the business press: meg whitman  )
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Dec 3, 2017 07:38
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:
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Dec 3, 2017 07:47
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Yeah but the Corsair 900 is actually very heavy and large. I mean it's not all trick perspective. I have the 750 and it almost didn't fit under my desk, I got like 2" to spare.
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Dec 3, 2017 09:22
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fond memories of lugging a trinitron CRT to LAN parties  actually maybe not too fond
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Dec 3, 2017 15:15
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in college I had a computer tower that happened to have a handle on the top. not sure if it was ornamental or not, but it worked. I made a custom black denim carrying case that I could carry the whole tower in and also strap kb/m and lcd to the side, so I could lug the thing to lan parties and such.
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Dec 3, 2017 15:42
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Silver Alicorn posted:in college I had a computer tower that happened to have a handle on the top. not sure if it was ornamental or not, but it worked. I made a custom black denim carrying case that I could carry the whole tower in and also strap kb/m and lcd to the side, so I could lug the thing to lan parties and such. i owned some of this crap lol http://www.geargrip.com/
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my pro Macs have had handles from my blue & white G3 through my 2008 Mac Pro the G5/Mac Pro case would cut into your hands though, I know people who sanded theirs down slightly to be less sharp
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