It's more than that, and the POWER6 in particular and the RAIDs run a bit warm anyway. It may be overkill but it's never failed to keep the room cool even during bad summers.
At least in my own experience, using vintage tech often requires collecting a bunch of ancillary equipment to get it to work, communicate, etc. Often you'll end up needing to keep multiple generations of networking equipment, monitors, peripherals, all only compatible with certain systems due to either age or brand ecosystem.
I've seen a few neat setups where people specialize in one era of one brand. I am not one of those people and my computer room looks a lot like the pictures.
Is it possible to gather non-standard hardware and have a tidy room? (Whether you are developing, collecting, studying, or just using it doesn't seem to matter.)
It works fine. The room stays cool in summer because the outflow duct is wide for good flow, plus insulated and separated from the rest of the room so it doesn't radiate its heat back in. I've seen some bad portable A/C installs and they were inefficient because they did something like make the exhaust tube too long, or reduce the calibre (thereby making it basically a partial blockage), or fail to insulate things properly. They're not a panacea, but they do the job.
More awesome from the remarkable tech monster that ported a modern Mozilla Firefox port on the PowerPC Macintosh MacOS "Classic" (pre OS X) platform, for at least a decade the lone developer.
Windmill tilting boss level.
Classic will always have class.
("Have class" is American~ English slang for "sophisticated" or "worthy of envy", as in "upper class" vs "low class". 20th Century Cinema Standard.)
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 224 ms ] threadWe're all different, I guess.
Also didn't know WG could snoop USB, a neat trick!
I've seen a few neat setups where people specialize in one era of one brand. I am not one of those people and my computer room looks a lot like the pictures.
It would certainly oppose all of my expectations.
So, on the right from the Mac, is that fire extinguisher or bug spray?
:)
It's what I use for my "server room."
Windmill tilting boss level.
Classic will always have class.
("Have class" is American~ English slang for "sophisticated" or "worthy of envy", as in "upper class" vs "low class". 20th Century Cinema Standard.)