[Info-vax] VSI Hobbyist licences

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/15/22 08:45, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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
> 
> :-)

Probably no worse than the Apollo I used to run at home.  Made a great
heater in the winter time but couldn't really run it in the summer.

And then there was the 11/24 with 4 RA80's.  Used to dim the lights
spinning up the disks.  Good think they were sequenced and didn't all
start at the same time.

bill