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When the univ I went to at Budapest got a second hand VAX cluster (also around '95) for the bargain basement price of only 50 000 CHF they needed to dig up the
by chx 7y ago
When the univ I went to at Budapest got a second hand VAX cluster (also around '95) for the bargain basement price of only 50 000 CHF they needed to dig up the street to the nearest substation and have a new powerline installed. http://hampage.hu/oldiron/vaxen/9000_4.jpg http://hampage.hu/oldiron/vaxen/9000_4.jpg the furthest away cabinet is the power supply. This photo is not even half of the cluster.
A few years before that, at another univ, they put an ancient IBM mainframe in place with a crane, temporarily removing the roof of the building.