Slow day today, so here is another poll to have fun with. Let’s see what hardware most geek readers around here desire!Note: The poll is now closed.
Poll: Vote for the Hardware You Always Desired
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Eugenia Loli
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Let’s see, what I have… SGI O2 with 1600SW, Mac G4 Cube w/17″ Studio Display, dual-processor Wintel box w/1600SW, dual-processor Ultra 60 w/21″ monitor. 64-bit Alpha system cobbled up from bits off of eBay. What should I get next???
Erik, Hush is about the coolest (pun intended;-) thing since the Apple Cube which, unless you have processor and graphics card upgrades with fans, is also silent because of the convection cooling. Do you know if there are any things to be sure to know about, such as the voltage (because of the differences here and over there), odd monitor problems and that type f thing? Thanks!
your own scrapyard
Let’s take some Cray hardware and cram it in a BeBox, patch that 1GB ram limit in BeOS, and BAM – a machine so responsive, it may warp time-space itself! Imagine a SMP machine running 16 CPUs peaking at 204.8 Gflops on the most responsive OS there is… ….Oooooooh.
The geekport (BeBox) was the most amazing little idea – the last sign of real innovation I’ve seen in ages. Not new, fancy, bells&whitles technology, but simple end-user techno-junkie friendly features. It had something like 16 digital I/O ports and 8 ANALOG I/O (I think, never had a BeBox). C’mon THAT is cool! Doorbell, coffeemaker, alarm clock, remote control, thermometer, whatever your little heart desires. I’ve been looking for a ‘geekport’ expansion card for a regular PC, but alas – this animal lives no more.
And a CPU-usage LED meter on the case SHEEAAT!! How could we have let them go out of business?
Matthew, what do you think of the inexpensive 150 Blade Workstation for someone to get intoduced to Solaris, etc.?
I would just pickup a Ultra 5 or 10 from ebay if your just using it at home to learn, it would save you some $.
mmm… watchen das blinkenlichten
I’ve always wanted an Alpha, why was there no “other” option on the poll?
hmmm, or maybe an UltraSParc
I 100% agree with you nitrile, Sparcs have something. But well I use mine as my main workstation, I’ve been using CDE (hate it), E16 (quite nice, not quick), and Sun Gnome 2 (slow but I’m still using it).
The reasons why I love this kind of machine ? Beside its look, it never behaves unexpectedly, it is simply running, no surprise, no “unexplained” behaviour that PC hardware is so fond of.
But I really find Solaris slow, I mean I have a NetBSD 166Mhz pentium/128Mb ram that feel more responsive than my Solaris9/USparc II350Mhz/768Mb ram .
May be is it some latency settings …..
Regarding Alphas well one of those quadri-EV5 … why not, I ran AlphaLinux for sometime on an old Mikasa some years ago, quite fun.
But they do not have this Sun caché.
I want a Cray, a really big one always wanted a computer that would take up the space of a whole room.
But what i´m really dreaming about is a new amiga with a 2Ghz Motorola 68k CPU, not any of that PowerPC flamewar(AOS vs MorphOS), and 4GB ChipRam.
…a difference engine.
There’s just something about brass cogs that makes all these “electrical” things look so ameteurish.
Reminds me of the time I saw a used Cray for sale on early usenet (make offer). I wrote the guy saying that as a CS student in the dorms there was no way I could afford or store it (much less run it), but details? He said he and a buddy put in a comically lowball offer at his company’s auction and won (he said they paid between $5000 and $15000, this was when they originally cost millions). Said it, the terminals, diskpacks, and cooling plant would fit in half a standard boxcar if I wanted it
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These days I occasionally check Ebay for Crays, but as historic antiques they aren’t cheap. Thanks for the fun poll Eugenia! =)
-MG
Solaris 9 on POWER 4+, only if….
I want an iMac!!!
i want hardware which make another hardware!!!!
so i will be free from money, only except money wasted for first the machine!!!
then i will have any hardware that i want..