On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:36:13AM -0400, bofh wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > But man, E450s are big.  But I'm sure you have noticed that. :)
> 
> 
> With lots of "NON-LOAD-BEARING" stickers all over the power supply handles.
> As a friend of a friend found out.  When I moved last year, I tossed it
> out.  1KW power... man, that sucked a lot of juice.  Other than "because I
> can", I'm not really sure what use is a e450, it's a what, 8-10 year old box
> now.  I went through and thought about what I wanted/needed, and threw away
> the sgi, the hpux, the decstation 3k and 5k, every box under 400Mhz, with
> one exception, my Apple ][gs.  15 computers, trashed.
> 

too bad shipping on those big old boxes is so expensive.  I'm of the
low-MHz CPU thread.  I still have to get a steel case for my dual P-133
Tyan board and try a modern PATA drive on it, but in general it works
just fine.

Doug.

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