Nothing wrong with that, you simply suffer from retrocomputing.

Careful about the power bill though. Large SGI stuff (e.g. Onyx) can go in the kilowatt range under load, and an AlphaServer idles at around 200W last time I checked.

IT was no green back then :)

> you simply suffer from retrocomputing

I love the way you phrase that! (I do suffer from that condition, too, in a way, if "suffer" is the word I want - but in my case it is select pieces of obsolete equipment sitting on my bookshelf. My favorite is an ancient IBM ISDN adapter (it still says 1TR6 instead of EDSS1 somewhere on the case) that once hooked up a mainframe to the outside world... ;-)

A friend of mine had an old Alpha years ago; was running NT4 on it. You'd watch the lights dim slightly when it turned on. I don't know the model, but the thing was huge.

My ES40 (4 x 667MHz 21264s) consumes 16A @ 110V. Most 110V US circuits are 10A.

I blew at least three fuses between that and the RX5670 (4 x Itanium), which consumed a similar amount of power @ 110V.

On the upside, depending on where you live, you probably save a lot of money on heating... ;-)

Is there a EnergyGuide heating furnace efficiency score for the ES40?

Resistance heating is pretty poor compared to heat pumps.

That's the joke that I was trying to make.

I think I remember reading or overhearing that Intel's chips somewhere in the Pentium 4 era were more efficient at converting electricity to heat than a typical hotplate. (Ratio-wise, at least.)

Household circuits are generally 15A or 20A AFAIK. Never seen one as low as 10.

Hmmm. Maybe it was 15A. A 16A ES40 plus other stuff plugged in to the same circuit would have happily blown 15A under load, I guess.

> An octane running irix is another expression of this problem

I dreamed of having a SGI after watching Jurassic Park as a child. I also remember my dad bringing me home a VHS of SIGGRAPH circa 1995 and dreaming about time on a SGI. Time to check Craigslist, I think. :)

You would have liked Snakebite. (http://web.archive.org/web/20121031190851/http://www.snakebi...)

AFAIK Theo de Raadt still has a bunch of racks of vintage hardware working as an OpenBSD build cluster in his basement (old photo circa 2009: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg). VMS-related, OpenBSD discontinued the VAX port in the 6.0 release this year. Never touched a VAX but from what I read the OpenBSD 5.8 VAX port is a lot more recent and better maintained than the NetBSD port.

We had very similar setups :-)

Then you will like this YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/user/jpkiwigeek?

I just bought an 1989 HP48SX, hi.