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Hm, this reminds me of two interesting tidbits. One is the good old P1 125Mhz router we had like 10 - 15 years ago. The only active cooling in that system was
by tetha 8y ago
Hm, this reminds me of two interesting tidbits.
One is the good old P1 125Mhz router we had like 10 - 15 years ago. The only active cooling in that system was in the PSU and that thing throttled it's fan off during normal operation. It had zero moving parts outside of the PSU. You couldn't even get fans for those CPUs. These old systems were fun :)
And beyond that, this makes me think of the computer requirements of coal mines, and I think mining in general. In a mine, a piece of compute has a defined maximum energy emission per square inch surface. If you exceed that, you risk coal dust explosions, which are rather inconvenient, loud and adverse to throughput. The stuff in the article is very similar to industrial computers in such a setup. Quite interesting.
- kakwa_ 8y agoAt my college, we had a bar with a custom account management system (it managed the credit of each students). The thing was all text/ncurses. The terminal was an under-clocked PII, with all the fans removed and connected to the server using a serial cable and it was kind of necessary since the environment was quite hostile and sticky (spilled beer, some fat deposit, etc). If I recall correctly before the PII, it was a VT-100 console, so even more basic than the PII.