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Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines by samstave on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#36508898)
I really like the idea of permacomputing.

WTF happened to all the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of machines I deployed to datacenters over the decades? Where are the F5 load balancers I spent $40,000 on per box in 1999?

I know that when we did Lucas' presidio migration, tens of millions of SGI boxes went to the ripper. That sucks.

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Re:Fast Machines, Slow Machines by systems_glitch on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @01:52PM (#36510054)
Occasionally I end up with a truckload of gear from things like that. The circumstances that saved it from shredding are usually something like Founding Engineer X couldn't stand to see all that nice workstation stuff go in the trash so he kept it in his garage for 25 years and now his kids are selling it.
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