[Info-vax] VSI Hobbyist licences

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-15, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-7, Steven Schweda wrote:
>
> (snip)
>> but I'm not sure if I ever tried to resolve that, or if it actually 
>> mattered. I haven't run that system lately, due to noise and power 
>> considerations.
>
> More recently I have been working with a Sun T5220 SPARC system, 
> which is similarly noisy and I suspect power hungry.  But I can remotely
> power it up, so I don't have to be close.  It is in the basement, and I am
> usually upstairs.  There is a small fan that stays on when it is plugged
> in, but powered down.  
>
> But I could power up the RX2600 again.

I wonder how power hungry they are compared to this guy's personal S/390:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytMgyrZm87A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrKbh5HwF3Q

:-)

Simon.

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