From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 17 21:51:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02896 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 21:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aaka.3skel.com (aaka.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02864 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 21:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3skel.com [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id AAA06542; Mon, 18 May 1998 00:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (danj@localhost) by fnur.3skel.com (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA06028; Mon, 18 May 1998 00:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:51:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Janowski To: Wes Peters cc: Bret Ford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO offers Ancient Unix Source Code License In-Reply-To: <355FB8AD.E2779CDB@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aaah, the caps, eh? I also worked on 80GTs. I once had to fix one of those squirrel cage fans at 2:00am (yes fix). In the cool eves of the summer, when I was still in shorts from the day I would sit on the machines while they were rendering to keep warm. Fond memories. Every see a PVS? It is (was) an IBM box with 32 i860 procs and 1GB mem. GREAT lights. 3 phase power necessary. Oooh, heat. An array of HiPPI disks that would do a little dance (little) when playing uncompressed 2K movies on the HD monitor. Now a dodo (sp?), bird that is. Dan On Sun, 17 May 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > I cut my 3D teeth on a 4D/60GT, later upgraded to a 4D/70. The > funny high pitched noise actually came from the capacitors in the > power supply; the current draw of the Geometry Pipeline would pull > enough current through them to start the squeal. I helped install > these machines in South Dakota; on cold (COLD COLD COLD!) winter > days we would come into work, take our shoes off, and fire up the > 'drip' demo to warm our toes and ankles. The 4D's had an 18-inch > long squirrel-cage fan that would blow 180F air when the drip demo > was running. ;^) > > > Where did the days of lights and sounds go? > > Sad, isn't it? No more blinkenlights. The actual hardware is becoming > a complete mystery, not only to the users, but to most of the programmers. > That's what the 'Dumming down of programming' article mentioned here > a couple of days ago was lamenting. > > -- -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message