[Info-vax] GS1280 wants a home

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <1fCdnbAtBcyOY_3WnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 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!

I remember my RA8x series disks.  OK in my lab at the University but
actually used to dim the lights at the house when I started them up.

bill

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