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moosemanmoo
Jan 6, 2007
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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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moosemanmoo
Jan 6, 2007
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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

moosemanmoo
Jan 6, 2007
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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???

moosemanmoo
Jan 6, 2007
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Olivil posted:

i have two half working Mac Plus (should be able to combine them) with a second drive + mouse/kb but im still not sure what i'm gonna do with them because i have no way of writing the 800k mac floppies

this is how you end up buying a second old Mac with a SuperDrive + Ethernet

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