SS IPC for a casket?

[Ian Finder]

Kinda bittersweet, but I thought you guys would appreciate this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6250033/Geeks-remains-stored-in-computer-casket.html

Which leads me to a really dorky question-- If your remains were to be
stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?

I'm torn between an SGI Indigo2 and a NeXT Cube.

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[Joost van de Griek-3]

2009/10/15 Ian Finder <ian.finder@...>:

> Which leads me to a really dorky question-- If your remains were to be
> stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?
>
> I'm torn between an SGI Indigo2 and a NeXT Cube.

I think it'd have to be my G4 Cube.

Or maybe go all-out and use the SGI Origin 2000... The corpse would
just fit in whole!

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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Ian Finder wrote:
> Kinda bittersweet, but I thought you guys would appreciate this:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6250033/Geeks-remains-stored-in-computer-casket.html
>
> Which leads me to a really dorky question-- If your remains were to be
> stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?
>
> I'm torn between an SGI Indigo2 and a NeXT Cube.

An IBM S/370 CADstation.  I'd take up more space than any 10 other
people combined.

Peace...  Sridhar
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[gsm-2]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:23:19AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> An IBM S/370 CADstation.  I'd take up more space than any 10 other  
> people combined.

Since my religon does not allow for cremation I was thinking of the largest
computer I've actually used which would place it at an IBM 370/168mp
(two 168's with an extra connecting box) or a CDC 6400.

Note that the CDC was remote access only, the 168 was something I actually
got to get my hands on.

Geoff.

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[Sridhar Ayengar]

gsm@... wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:23:19AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> An IBM S/370 CADstation.  I'd take up more space than any 10 other  
>> people combined.
>
> Since my religon does not allow for cremation I was thinking of the largest
> computer I've actually used which would place it at an IBM 370/168mp
> (two 168's with an extra connecting box) or a CDC 6400.

That would be big enough to be a mausoleum, let alone a coffin.

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[Dave Fischer]

ian.finder@... writes:

>Which leads me to a really dorky question-- If your remains were to be
>stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?

>I'm torn between an SGI Indigo2 and a NeXT Cube.

Going purely by cabinet appearance, the most fitting I've seen
would be an Ikos NSIM-64. (Looks like a mini designed by the
ancient Egyptians.)

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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave Fischer wrote:
>> Which leads me to a really dorky question-- If your remains were to be
>> stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?
>
>> I'm torn between an SGI Indigo2 and a NeXT Cube.
>
> Going purely by cabinet appearance, the most fitting I've seen
> would be an Ikos NSIM-64. (Looks like a mini designed by the
> ancient Egyptians.)

Got a picture?

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[Dave Fischer]

ploopster@... writes:

>Dave Fischer wrote:
>> Going purely by cabinet appearance, the most fitting I've seen
>> would be an Ikos NSIM-64. (Looks like a mini designed by the
>> ancient Egyptians.)

>Got a picture?

http://www.cca.org/d/ikos-nsim64t.jpg

The scale isn't obvious from that - it's just under four feet tall.

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[Phil Stracchino-3]

Dave Fischer wrote:

> ploopster@... writes:
>
>> Dave Fischer wrote:
>>> Going purely by cabinet appearance, the most fitting I've seen
>>> would be an Ikos NSIM-64. (Looks like a mini designed by the
>>> ancient Egyptians.)
>
>> Got a picture?
>
> http://www.cca.org/d/ikos-nsim64t.jpg
>
> The scale isn't obvious from that - it's just under four feet tall.

Isn't that Goa'uld technology...?


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[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:26:23 -0700
Ian Finder <ian.finder@...> wrote:

> If your remains were to be
> stored in a workstation, what would you want it to be?
VAXstation 3100. Because this was my fist non-x86, i.e. real computer.
That VAX did permanent damage. I still have more VAXen (+ a few Alphas
and DECstations) then all the rest together.
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[Dave Fischer]

alaric@... writes:

>> http://www.cca.org/d/ikos-nsim64t.jpg
>>
>> The scale isn't obvious from that - it's just under four feet tall.

>Isn't that Goa'uld technology...?

Yes! I usually refer to it as "my Stargate controller". (I only have
an empty cabinet, it was stripped by a recycler just before I got it.)

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[John Francini]

For me it would have to be a DECsystem-10, KI-10 model. But if space  
were at a premium, I could make do with the single-rack DECsystem-2020  
(the KS-10).

j

On 15 Oct 2009, at 7:49, gsm@... wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:23:19AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> An IBM S/370 CADstation.  I'd take up more space than any 10 other  
>> people combined.
>
> Since my religon does not allow for cremation I was thinking of the  
> largest
> computer I've actually used which would place it at an IBM 370/168mp  
> (two 168's with an extra connecting box) or a CDC 6400.
>
> Note that the CDC was remote access only, the 168 was something I  
> actually
> got to get my hands on.
> Geoff.
>
> --
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> 4X1GM
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[Ethan O'Toole]

Two quick questions...

Any thoughts on current sources for replacement idproms for Suns?

And will a PCMCIA hard drive work in a Sun Voyager? A friend has a 500 meg
pcmcia drive and I was thinking.... (Of course 16GB SD card in PCMCIA
adaptor would be wild). I assume the answer is no but you never know!



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[David Griffith-5]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Ethan O'Toole wrote:

> Two quick questions...
>
> Any thoughts on current sources for replacement idproms for Suns?

I've generally thought of this as somewhat moot.  Whenever I have this
problem, I saw open the battery chamber, extract the old battery, and
epoxy a button cell holder to the top.  I don't know what happened to the
battery replacement page at http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/, but it looks
like someone saved a .doc version of it at
http://www.leetupload.com/database/Misc/Papers/MANUALS/SUN/DPROM.doc.
There you can see a picture of what I did with my IPX's idprom.  The fix
works perfectly and nothing is rattling around the motherboard.


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[Ethan O'Toole]

> I've generally thought of this as somewhat moot.  Whenever I have this
> problem, I saw open the battery chamber, extract the old battery, and epoxy a
> button cell holder to the top.  I don't know what happened to the battery
> replacement page at http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/, but it looks like
> someone saved a .doc version of it at

I found that solution as well. I'm going to do it to every one I find.

> http://www.leetupload.com/database/Misc/Papers/MANUALS/SUN/DPROM.doc. There
> you can see a picture of what I did with my IPX's idprom.  The fix works
> perfectly and nothing is rattling around the motherboard.

Perfect. That's what I'm going to attempt.


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[Sandwich Maker]

" I don't know what happened to the battery replacement page at
" http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/

maybe mrbill could use the wayback machine and snaffle the pg to add
to sunhelp...?
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[Dave Fischer]

ethan@... writes:

>And will a PCMCIA hard drive work in a Sun Voyager? A friend has a 500 meg
>pcmcia drive and I was thinking.... (Of course 16GB SD card in PCMCIA
>adaptor would be wild). I assume the answer is no but you never know!

I never tried when I had my Voyager running, but I've had no
problem mounting CF cards in a PCMCIA adaptor in a sbus/pcmcia
card under Solaris 8. The documentation says there's a very low
limit (64 meg?) but I've been using a 512meg card. (I use it to
transfer photos from my camera.)

Speed is not very good though. (500 k/s?)

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[David Griffith-5]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Ethan O'Toole wrote:

>> I've generally thought of this as somewhat moot.  Whenever I have this
>> problem, I saw open the battery chamber, extract the old battery, and epoxy
>> a button cell holder to the top.  I don't know what happened to the battery
>> replacement page at http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/, but it looks like
>> someone saved a .doc version of it at
>
> I found that solution as well. I'm going to do it to every one I find.
>
>> http://www.leetupload.com/database/Misc/Papers/MANUALS/SUN/DPROM.doc. There
>> you can see a picture of what I did with my IPX's idprom.  The fix works
>> perfectly and nothing is rattling around the motherboard.
>
> Perfect. That's what I'm going to attempt.

Here's the source page for that .doc:
http://www.belgers.com/gigawa.lt/Sun_NVRAM.html.  Somehow I thought my
IPX's pic was at bhargavaz.net.

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[Steve Sandau]

> " I don't know what happened to the battery replacement page at
> " http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/
>
> maybe mrbill could use the wayback machine and snaffle the pg to add
> to sunhelp...?

I have used the information here:

http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

several times in replacing batteries and reconfiguring the NVRAM with
necessary info. There is a section on battery replacement, but it
doesn't have pictures like some of the other resources I have seen.

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[Carl R. Friend]

    On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, John Francini wrote:

> For me it would have to be a DECsystem-10, KI-10 model.

    Hopefully you wouldn't be sacrificing a working or restorable
individual for that.  Those were the ultimate -10s that DEC made.

    Cheers!

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