Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:51:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Bret Ford <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO offers Ancient Unix Source Code License Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518004432.5978C-100000@fnur.3skel.com> In-Reply-To: <355FB8AD.E2779CDB@softweyr.com>
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Aaah, the caps, eh? I also worked on 80GTs. I once had to fix one of those squirrel cage fans at 2:00am (yes fix). In the cool eves of the summer, when I was still in shorts from the day I would sit on the machines while they were rendering to keep warm. Fond memories. Every see a PVS? It is (was) an IBM box with 32 i860 procs and 1GB mem. GREAT lights. 3 phase power necessary. Oooh, heat. An array of HiPPI disks that would do a little dance (little) when playing uncompressed 2K movies on the HD monitor. Now a dodo (sp?), bird that is. Dan On Sun, 17 May 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > I cut my 3D teeth on a 4D/60GT, later upgraded to a 4D/70. The > funny high pitched noise actually came from the capacitors in the > power supply; the current draw of the Geometry Pipeline would pull > enough current through them to start the squeal. I helped install > these machines in South Dakota; on cold (COLD COLD COLD!) winter > days we would come into work, take our shoes off, and fire up the > 'drip' demo to warm our toes and ankles. The 4D's had an 18-inch > long squirrel-cage fan that would blow 180F air when the drip demo > was running. ;^) > > > Where did the days of lights and sounds go? > > Sad, isn't it? No more blinkenlights. The actual hardware is becoming > a complete mystery, not only to the users, but to most of the programmers. > That's what the 'Dumming down of programming' article mentioned here > a couple of days ago was lamenting. > > -- -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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