[Info-vax] GS1280 wants a home

[JF Mezei]

Michael Moroney wrote:

> -- if it has the amps.  David T. measured 17 amps, and assuming he plugged
> his into a standard (for commercial buildings) 120/208V 3 phase system,
> that's 6120 watts. 

Not much worse than an electric central furnace. Should do fine to heat
Mr Vaxman's home !

Seriously though, can one not turn some CPUs off on such a system and
thus reduce power consumption ?  Or are the CPUs always on, but the OS
just don't give them any work when they are "disabled" ?



And one must be weary of the rating son the plugs. An All Mighty
Microvax II required a 30 amp socket (L5-30R). But that was because the
cabinet could accomodate two RA80 family disks as well as the MVII.