[rescue] Dave M. - Cray curiosity

[Mac MacCorkle]

Dave, what do you use your cray's for anyways?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Dave M. - Cray curiosity


> On August 1, james at foonly.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Joshua Snyder wrote:
> >
> > > Do you run the cray 24/7?  At $.08 per Kw/hour that would be $267.84
per
> > > month... ouch!!
> >
> > I would kill for $0.08/KW-hour.  That's a terrific rate if it's flat.
> >
> > -James [paying between $0.11 and $0.16/KW-hour, depending on the hour]
>
>   Yup, it is a great rate.  That's why I don't complain about it.  When
> I lived up in NJ (Trenton/Princeton area) the rate was $0.12/KWH.
> This was back in 1990 or so.  I was running two MicroVAX-IIs, one with
> a Fuji Eagle and one with a pair of bigger (14") 170mb SMDs.  And my
> old Zilog System/8000, which I dearly miss.  It was a pretty painful
> electric bill.
>
>         -Dave
>
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> Laurel, MD
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