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To: HKMk23; ThomasThomas
HP BladeCenter. 7 2-node Intel QuadCore half height blades with 4GB of DDR2-667 and internal 73GB 15kRPM SAS RAID1. FC to a MSA2000. Twin 300GB RAID1 partitions on 300GB 10kRPM SAS drives. Another 16 750GB SATA 7200RPM drives finish out the storage cluster.

We'll have expansion room for 7 more half height blades and 28 drive slots for either SATA or SAS drives.

w00t!

1,347 posted on 07/22/2008 12:14:40 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse

Rock ‘n’ roll!

Long story, but I ended up with an old Presario (450MHz P3, 224MB RAM) sans HD. I dug into my closet and found an old Maxtor 400MB HD and 5.25 floppy drive, which I installed. HD is blank, and formatted FAT16.

I’m thinking I’ll use it to show the kids what life was like in the dark ages a decade ago. Maybe load up my old copy of Turbo Pascal and let ‘em bang around with that.

God knows I want ‘em to have SOME appreciation for the level of technology that surrounds them.

“Here. You write a program that says “Hello” in yellow letters centered on a dark blue screen, and then I’ll let you play your favorite game on the XP box for an hour.”


1,352 posted on 07/22/2008 2:40:14 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Tragedy?! To Hell with tragedy! If it's tragedy I want, I'll read the newspaper!)
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