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Back when my Bride and I were living in a one bedroom apartment, she looked at my jumble of computers around my desk and asked "why not just get one big box?".
by heelix 4y ago
Back when my Bride and I were living in a one bedroom apartment, she looked at my jumble of computers around my desk and asked "why not just get one big box?". I was browsing/shopping at Lockheed's outlet store, and stumbled across a glorious Sun 180 server with a 19", 8' tall rack. Only $25! Who could resist! We picked it up and my Bride was horrified to discover the refrigerator sized machine next to my desk. It is still used today - though it is holding a bunch of servers in the basement rather than front and center in my office.
- neilv 4y agoThe 3/180? Awesome score. That's the "one big box" version of the 3/75 and pair of Sun shoeboxes that I once bought for home. (Bought used, from the local Sun office, which would occasionally email out of list old gear to sysadmins at customer sites, but for quite a lot more money than $25, unfortunately.) Hopefully the 3/180 isn't as crazy-loud as the big old 4/390 that my employer was still using for email and some NFS.
- heelix 4y agoThe model showed 180, but the part was 3/280s-8r1, with all the upgrades! The actual hardware was dead - but it had all the panels and covers for the rack including the SCSI access. The original 180 chassis has housed everything from a pentium 90 to a 32-core threadripper. A fun bit of history. Hanging a mini-itx board in there was a bit comical for a few years, when folks were asking to see what was inside that monster. Giant box to the right of the desk :) https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg