On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>>>>> My 14-cpu machine thanks you :-)
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious: what machine model is that?
>>>
>>> Who cares about model, can I borrow it. :P
>>
>> A UE4500 is quite loud and quite hot. Not a box I would want at home.
>
> Could heat the house during those cold winter nights. :)
I remember my old sparcstation hardware at CMU with some fondness for this
reason -- on a cold Pittsburgh evening, overheating computer hardware was
strictly necessary, even in the presence of decent radiators. However,
with 14+ cooling fans for one machine, it did need to be a couple of rooms
down.
Robert N M Watson