I had everything plugged in to one 15A circuit, that's all we got. "Everything", is a 19" CRT (probably used the most power), two Dual-CPU systems with several hard drives each, and about a half dozen pentium based machines. I never had any issues, even with the microwave running. I'm sure it was close though. I'm not sure if the lights were on the same circuit or not, I think it was just bad shielding in the stereo that made it hum when the lights were on.
But given the condition of that guy in the pictures and the fact that he was cleaned off the road with a fire hose, I don't think his organs were going to anybody.
I can't believe it took to page three to get to milk crates. I currently have roughly a dozen milk crates in my room storing stuff. And they were all free. I got them all at school from behind the dining hall. Stack them on their side for book shelves and clothes. They'll hold anything that won't fall through the holes.
Well, right now as in I started almost 24 hours ago compiling stuff. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea; so great in fact that I'm building it on a P-III 500. Which is something I'd strongly recommend against if you're in any sort of a rush. Of course, GCC gets compiled 4 times i think (three when it's bootstrapped, and again when it's built using the new toolchain), glibc gets compiled and tested twice. Compiling doesn't take so long compared to testing it. Later on I'll be building Perl, X, KDE (at least the libraries), Gnome, OpenOffice. Yeah, I think that covers the really big packages. I fully expect this whole process to take every bit of 48 hours. Nothing like sleep between compiles.:-) This must be what it was like installing Linux 10 or 11 years ago.
It's late and I can't think of a better title for this post. I remember long ago when you could buy video RAM chips and plug them into sockets on your video card and add more memory. The idea never really caught on, the chips were hard to find and no one seemed to bother (that I recall). However, now with the amount of attention video cards get, I think it's time to bring that idea back. I just can't see spending 400 - 500 USD to buy a new video card just so that I can get another 50MHz and another 128MB of RAM. I want to be able to swap GPUs on my video card when new ones come out, add RAM and update the firmware without buying a new card.
I know this will never happen, because it would be a huge loss for the card manufacturers. Or maybe it will. Once upon a time, you bought computers with the CPU and RAM soldered to the motherboard (think pre-386 and some 386's). True, the was a socket for a math Co-processor, but often upgrading the CPU was out of the question. This is where we are with video cards now. The upgrade path is rather steep.
I'm waiting for the day when you buy a video card and then have the option of buying the fast processor, the really fast one, or the processor-thats-so-fast-it-melts-the-card, and then have the option of buying lots of RAM, a lot more RAM, or way too much RAM. Of course, I'll take option 3:-)
Anyway, I know I'll update my video card a lot more often if that ever happens.
Well, lets see. There's the two US Army Signal Corps field telephones that serve as a intercom between the house and the shop. Circa 1944. The only actual date I have on them is a sticker that reads "moisture and fungus treated Aug '44 by CCN". They're model EE-8-B. These aren't "radio-telephones", they're the real run-a-wire type with the hand crank to ring.
The next oldest piece of hardware is the Sun IPX that is my mail server. That's what, early '90s?
That's about it really, I used to have a rotary telephone, but I upgraded to a cordless and they don't come in a rotary version (it does have a rotary emulation switch though).
Oh, wait, there's this neat serial line diagnostic tool made by Hard Engineering out of Huntsville, AL. It's called a ByteBug 645. It's basically a little serial terminal that works inline. It does a lot of other stuff, but that's about all I know how to use it for. I figure it's probably circa mid-80s. Anybody know of these things?
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I had everything plugged in to one 15A circuit, that's all we got. "Everything", is a 19" CRT (probably used the most power), two Dual-CPU systems with several hard drives each, and about a half dozen pentium based machines. I never had any issues, even with the microwave running. I'm sure it was close though. I'm not sure if the lights were on the same circuit or not, I think it was just bad shielding in the stereo that made it hum when the lights were on.
But given the condition of that guy in the pictures and the fact that he was cleaned off the road with a fire hose, I don't think his organs were going to anybody.
I can't believe it took to page three to get to milk crates. I currently have roughly a dozen milk crates in my room storing stuff. And they were all free. I got them all at school from behind the dining hall. Stack them on their side for book shelves and clothes. They'll hold anything that won't fall through the holes.
Well, right now as in I started almost 24 hours ago compiling stuff. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea; so great in fact that I'm building it on a P-III 500. Which is something I'd strongly recommend against if you're in any sort of a rush. Of course, GCC gets compiled 4 times i think (three when it's bootstrapped, and again when it's built using the new toolchain), glibc gets compiled and tested twice. Compiling doesn't take so long compared to testing it. Later on I'll be building Perl, X, KDE (at least the libraries), Gnome, OpenOffice. Yeah, I think that covers the really big packages. I fully expect this whole process to take every bit of 48 hours. Nothing like sleep between compiles. :-) This must be what it was like installing Linux 10 or 11 years ago.
I know this will never happen, because it would be a huge loss for the card manufacturers. Or maybe it will. Once upon a time, you bought computers with the CPU and RAM soldered to the motherboard (think pre-386 and some 386's). True, the was a socket for a math Co-processor, but often upgrading the CPU was out of the question. This is where we are with video cards now. The upgrade path is rather steep.
I'm waiting for the day when you buy a video card and then have the option of buying the fast processor, the really fast one, or the processor-thats-so-fast-it-melts-the-card, and then have the option of buying lots of RAM, a lot more RAM, or way too much RAM. Of course, I'll take option 3 :-)
Anyway, I know I'll update my video card a lot more often if that ever happens.
The next oldest piece of hardware is the Sun IPX that is my mail server. That's what, early '90s?
That's about it really, I used to have a rotary telephone, but I upgraded to a cordless and they don't come in a rotary version (it does have a rotary emulation switch though).
Oh, wait, there's this neat serial line diagnostic tool made by Hard Engineering out of Huntsville, AL. It's called a ByteBug 645. It's basically a little serial terminal that works inline. It does a lot of other stuff, but that's about all I know how to use it for. I figure it's probably circa mid-80s. Anybody know of these things?