[rescue] Cooling (was S: 512M (4x128M) U5/10 DIMMs)

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Apr 15 16:33:41 CDT 2002


>  > Box/Space ratio?
>
>   Picture a 12'x18' (or so) room containing about nine racks...two racks
>full of Sun3/60 boards in 12-slot VME chassis (six 3/60 boards per
>chassis, three chassis per rack) running netbooted, two Sun4/300
>systems and five Sun4/400 systems, each in a 3/180 rackmount VME
>chassis, about fifteen CDC Sabre 8" SMD drives, two CDC PA1A9A 14" SMD
>drives (9A/ea continuous), and about six Livingston Portmaster PM2E-30
>terminal servers...each with thirty AT&T/Paradyne *external* 14.4Kbps
>modems connected to them.  Oh, and about eight VT220 and VT320
>terminals.

damn.  That is impressive.  This was in '93 you said?  How full did 
the Portmasters get?

>   This was a *FUCKING LOT* of heat.

no shit.

daniel
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