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posting itt on my brand new rig 
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atomicthumbs posted:
fault tolerant nightstand
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Jan 13, 2016 02:36
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eschaton posted:fault tolerant nightstand 
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Jan 13, 2016 03:53
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i got a thing for little clamshell organizers that run dos. here's one of my faves: xt compatible that runs off two AAs and has ms-dos 5 on a rom. fun for serial stuff and ethernet works with an old enough card
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Jan 13, 2016 04:05
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PleasingFungus posted:use every part of the workstation
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Jan 13, 2016 07:55
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eschaton posted:fault tolerant nightstand
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Jan 13, 2016 07:55
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Jan 13, 2016 07:55
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im curious, old workstation-havers: how noisy are they? are the hard drives loud?
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Jan 13, 2016 07:58
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crusader_complex posted:im curious, old workstation-havers: how noisy are they? are the hard drives loud? remember that one time you heard your dad really giving it to your mom down the hall
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Jan 13, 2016 08:05
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My Octane is like having a jet engine on your desk. Fans running at full bore the instant you hit the power switch, etc.
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Jan 13, 2016 08:06
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Doc Block posted:My Octane is like having a jet engine on your desk. Fans running at full bore the instant you hit the power switch, etc. did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product
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Jan 13, 2016 08:31
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crusader_complex posted:im curious, old workstation-havers: how noisy are they? are the hard drives loud? my SS20 isn't that loud relatively speaking, the first drive was but adding the second drive actually made it quieter there's still plenty of chunka chunka noise when it's actually touching the disk though, it startled my wife because she'd forgotten what that sounds like you can get SCSI adapters to more modern storage if you want quiet (and speed and capacity), I have a SCSISD on the way which will do a couple MB/s and let me have a lot of storage emulating several different targets each with exactly the disk geometry I want there's also the Stratos Technology stuff which is available for SD, CF, and even loving SATA holy poo poo conversion and even supports hot swap and poo poo and there's even a competitor to Stratos focused primarily on CF-backed SCSI emulation of specific drives, for synthesizers and samplers and (other) industrial equipment
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Jan 13, 2016 10:10
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product why would you ever want it to slow down? you didn't spend more than an engineer's annual salary on a system just to have it go slow gotta go fast !!
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Jan 13, 2016 10:12
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product The Octane weighs 54 pounds and is made of cast iron or some poo poo. SGI's engineers didn't do anything halfway.
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Jan 13, 2016 10:18
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Jan 13, 2016 17:03
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At work they have these big cardboard bins along the hallways that people use to throw away all their old stuffs. Usually its CRT monitors and 20 year old books. Lots of really worthless poo poo that you couldn't even give away to people anymore.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:05
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Peanut and the Gang posted:At work they have these big cardboard bins along the hallways that people use to throw away all their old stuffs. Usually its CRT monitors and 20 year old books. Lots of really worthless poo poo that you couldn't even give away to people anymore. A lot of cheap Chinese developers still push around MSVC 6 and care so much about performance they must use some rear end backward version of gb2312 instead of Unicode. Except it is more like a cargo cult of Russia in the Cold War as despite all the performance attention their apps are terrible in every way possible. A lot of Chinese print tech books are simply translations of Japanese books with the same diagrams, so everything is old. The Japanese really love writing really long and quite nice technical articles, they still publish a lot of monthly magazines with oodles of detailed content it is an amazing contrast to a UK or US Linux magazine that has retarded articles about learning ls.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:17
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product I seem to remember 13W3 repeaters and keyboard cable extender cables being a thing
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Jan 13, 2016 17:36
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I used an Ultra 60 on a daily basis for about 3 years, it was pretty loud. At the time however, everything was loud. You just kind of expected a computer to be a loud thing that helped you get work done, like a wood chipper. It wasn't uncomfortable to be around, it was actually nice in a way. the noise masked ambient conversation mumbles really well. i hear some offices pump in artificially created pink noise to produce the same effect.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:40
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Jan 13, 2016 18:00
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? lol were you born in 2000?
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Jan 13, 2016 18:02
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product fuckin lomarf
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Jan 13, 2016 18:22
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yeah seriously, designing computers to actually be quiet is a recent development everything used to be noisy. i miss the sound floppy drives would make when you'd boot up a computer
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Jan 13, 2016 19:19
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when did hard disks stop making that cool drrrrrr-dr-drrr-drdrdrdrdr sound anyway 
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Jan 13, 2016 19:21
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Barnyard Protein posted:I used an Ultra 60 on a daily basis for about 3 years, it was pretty loud. At the time however, everything was loud. You just kind of expected a computer to be a loud thing that helped you get work done, like a wood chipper. It wasn't uncomfortable to be around, it was actually nice in a way. the noise masked ambient conversation mumbles really well. i hear some offices pump in artificially created pink noise to produce the same effect. I had a SS20 and an Ultra 1, neither seemed especially loud to me at the time (2006-2007). My MicroVAX was quieter than my primary desktop at the time, too!
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Jan 13, 2016 19:27
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its easy to make ur compy loud. put a baseball card in your case fan.
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Jan 13, 2016 21:57
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remember back when getting online required the sound of a robot orgasm to loudly reverberate your house?
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Jan 14, 2016 00:34
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product The Octane was introduced in 1997. Nobody cared about making computers quiet in 1997, especially not one that cost more than a car.
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Jan 14, 2016 00:40
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when you spend $30k on a workstation, you want the fan blaring full speed. if the CPU drops below %100 usage ur face gets hot.
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Jan 14, 2016 00:56
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if a loud super-expensive unix workstation seems weird, that's because you're thinking of it in the context of a home where it is weird. imagine walking into someone's kitchen and seeing a 200 liter industrial mixer, kind of the same thing. recently the line between "professional" grade and "consumer" grade computer equipment has been blurred, but it still exists in computing and other industries.
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Jan 14, 2016 01:06
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my old computers are an Indy and a SGI Visual Workstation which was terrible except for the 1600x1024 monitor. it ran Windows NT 4, had "Cobalt" graphics (still made by SGI at least) and had some unified memory thing where the CPU and Cobalt could share the system RAM. it's still heavy as poo poo like any other SGI system. i forget if it was that or the O2 that came with a VRML demo of itself, where you could click around and see the internals 
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Jan 14, 2016 03:17
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absolutely fair points, and i do miss the dump truck transmission like sounds of old macintosh hard drives. the concept of a silent environment being helpful for work isn't exactly new though and there were viable quieter cooling options that could have been adapted from vector supercomputers
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Jan 14, 2016 04:19
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who wouldn't want to live in a world where sgi workstations were silent and cooled by refrigerated fluorinert in an illuminated waterfall???
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Jan 14, 2016 04:22
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SO DEMANDING posted:yeah seriously, designing computers to actually be quiet is a recent development I really want to make a fanless computer because I think it would be cool. can't really justify dropping the $$$ on another expensive computer that I don't need just because it would be cool tho
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Jan 14, 2016 04:32
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MrMoo posted:A lot of Chinese print tech books are simply translations of Japanese books with the same diagrams, so everything is old. The Japanese really love writing really long and quite nice technical articles, they still publish a lot of monthly magazines with oodles of detailed content it is an amazing contrast to a UK or US Linux magazine that has retarded articles about learning ls. Its a shame that english language technical writing mostly sucks, and barely ever extends beyond the documentation 
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Jan 14, 2016 04:34
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I think the only old computer I have rn is my tandy pc-3 it's programmable
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Jan 14, 2016 04:35
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vodkat posted:I really want to make a fanless computer because I think it would be cool. can't really justify dropping the $$$ on another expensive computer that I don't need just because it would be cool tho my 486/dx 33mhz didn't have a fan or even a heatsink the power supply was super loud, but at least it had this huge red toggle switch on it.
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Jan 14, 2016 05:45
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I have a SGI ATH-101 keyboard that I have no use or want for and I don't want to just throw it away, I'll send it to someone for shipping costs.
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Jan 14, 2016 09:14
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vodkat posted:I really want to make a fanless computer because I think it would be cool. can't really justify dropping the $$$ on another expensive computer that I don't need just because it would be cool tho These are probably expensive: http://airtop-pc.com Fanless barebones systems: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/solutions/fanless_mini_pc.asp
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I have one of these the glass is cracked but it works fine also an Apple IIe
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