[Info-vax] GS1280 wants a home

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

Those RA series disks were power hogs.  ISTR that the RA81 had a 35 
ampere starting surge and drew 7 amperes steady-state!

These days you get a hell of a lot more storage for your money and you 
don't need 4Kw per disk!