Post #2105205
2026-05-06 18:57 UTC
Replies (16)
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@markmalowany@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 19:06
@davefischer Zowie! 🤩
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos 2026-05-06 19:07
@davefischer they also tend to have 14 weeks of downtime per 3 years and every failure takes 14 days to fix even though you have '4 hour.'
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@nakumorita@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-06 19:34
@davefischer amazing and massive at the same time! Well done 👌🏼
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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk 2026-05-06 20:06
@davefischer I bet that pile isn't light either; a place I worked needed one of those as a performance reference; it was used only a handful of times and lived at the bottom of a rack and was called 'ballast'.
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@phf@dmv.community 2026-05-06 20:11
@davefischer Wait, are you the guy from Office Space? (Sorry, I could NOT resist.)
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-06 20:41
@davefischer be careful, I'd gotten one of the first Sun E3000 (or was is the E3500?) for eval at France Telecom for use on our ISP Wanadoo. It caught fire in our office server room, fortunately rapidly extinguished. We went ahead with SGI Origins 2000 instead IIRC, though we did get a pair of Sun E10K later for our billing system.
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@JBrianCoyle@mas.to 2026-05-06 20:46
@davefischer Since this is #RetroComputing - "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those"!
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@galacticstone@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 20:49
@davefischer I more interested in the collection of old band flyers (punk?) on the wall. Do you still have those?
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@rpardee@hachyderm.io 2026-05-06 20:59
@davefischer "Your authority is not recognized in Fort Kickass" 😆
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@ralfmaximus@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 21:26
@davefischer Care to guess as to total FLOPS?
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@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 03:35
@davefischer Back in the '90s my company went paperless. (Which generated 3x as much paper...) All on Sun workstations. They had them stacked up like cord wood. I figured they were about $10,000 each at the time, so seeing all those lovely things just piled up boggled my mind at how much they spent to go paperless. And that doesn't count the cost of the custom software for our shop floor.
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@masek@infosec.exchange 2026-05-07 17:24
@davefischer@hachyderm.io As former private owner of a functional E10K, I can admire that 😁
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@x2ero@ieji.de 2026-05-09 10:51
@davefischer@hachyderm.io Why where you waering a Bundeswehr Uniform then?
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@fatboy@fosstodon.org 2026-05-10 02:04
@davefischer@hachyderm.io badass!
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@cbleslie@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 03:24
@davefischer@hachyderm.io the aesthetics of these machines are undeniable. I miss when computers had personalities.
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@scottcheloha@bsd.network 2026-05-10 23:53
@davefischer@hachyderm.io ballpark on the wattage for one of these, maximum configuration, running at-or-near full tilt? I always get excited when I see high end RISC hardware like this, and then I see/measure the electrical footprint for the compute and I come down to earth.