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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark.

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Haul of DEC gear

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Met up with Colin Butcher of X-Delta last night in Manchester to obtain a BA356 and some 36GB SBBs - he also gave me a couple of boxes of SCSI cables and Option cards, including SCSI and fibre-channel cards, HVD->LVD converts, BA rack personality modules, BA power supplies some CPUs (ES40 I think). A box of DEC option catalogs, a load of DEC Technical Journals, some old DEC related technical documentation (including some really nice marketing material for VAXstations and VAXes). I will try and get some of the nicer documentation scanned. I have yet to sort through everything, may take a while, but if anyone has any specific requests I will take those on board once I've cataloged everything. He wants stuff to go to a good home, and I said I would oblige if possible for the bits I don't need or can't use. Regards, Mark.

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 15:45, Kari Uusim ki wrote: The reason for the noise is that a zx6000 has different fans than a rx2600. If you like, you can check the manual. It is mentioned there. My zx6000 is as quiet as other workstations, but at office there are rx2600's which are really noisy. Kari On 5.7.2011 17:23, Sampsa Laine wrote: Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson Oh, and the ZX6000 only has the one power supply as supplied by default.

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by md.benson＠gmail.com

Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Nope. It has always been a Workstation configured machine which means it has the lower speed 'workstation' fan kit installed and the firmware set to zx6000 fan operation. The rx2600 has different fans and a different EFI setting. Docs for converting between the are on the HP site but the fan kits may be hard to find. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 15:23, Sampsa Laine wrote: Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson The ZX6000 has the 'Office Friendly' option installed by default which makes it a lot quieter than the RX2600...

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

The reason for the noise is that a zx6000 has different fans than a rx2600. If you like, you can check the manual. It is mentioned there. My zx6000 is as quiet as other workstations, but at office there are rx2600's which are really noisy. Kari On 5.7.2011 17:23, Sampsa Laine wrote: Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-handItanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by hvlems＠zonnet.nl

Isn't that the difference between the workstation and the server model lines: the attention to lower soundlevels for the first? Hans PS A VAX may be more quiet but when they're all up and running in my attic an I64 is probably quiet in comparison :-) Not that I own one however. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:23:10 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market? Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by neozeed＠gmail.com

And then there is Itanium LOUD.... :) In a room with 50 servers you can tell which one the Itanium is... and shutting it down you can certainly tell with the reduction of noise... I think mine is so quite as it's the 800Mhz (probably downclocked to 733 as part of that disaster...) part. I'd say that reason is enough why small users weren't exactly jumping onto Itaniums. They are too damned loud. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: Gregg, There's loud and then there's LEBANESE FREAKING WEDDING LOUD. I can hear it through three sets of Victorian brick walls if i try hard enough. Sampsa > Hello! > Incidentally folks, there's a reason why your hardware is that noisy. > It happens that the processor inside runs very hot. And the fans > inside are working night and day to keep it cool.

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Gregg, There's loud and then there's LEBANESE FREAKING WEDDING LOUD. I can hear it through three sets of Victorian brick walls if i try hard enough. Sampsa Hello! Incidentally folks, there's a reason why your hardware is that noisy. It happens that the processor inside runs very hot. And the fans inside are working night and day to keep it cool.

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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by neozeed＠gmail.com

mine isn't.... But I did expect it to be, the HP server we have is without a doubt the loudest 1u thing I've ever heard. It's louder than this 8u 8cpu PPro I used to have.. Even the HP 8x p4's ... it's just so damned LOUD. But my desktop is surprisingly quite. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: Is your zx6000 crazy noisy as well? My rx2600 (RHESUS, btw, on HECnet) sounds like a freaking jet engine.. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: > I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! > > Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. > > -- > Mark Benson > > http://markbenson.org/blog > http://twitter.com/MDBenson

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