Oops. Big packages.

I had to get a CPU for one of my customer machines back to the office and got
the courier company to sort it out. I should have told them that the CPU (with
its box) was about 9" x 2'6" x 2'6".

Poor bugger's just turned up on a 125...

 

Nine and a half inches by 2 'n' a half? Wont that just fit down his jacket?

 

I think you mean 2 ft 6 inches. I've taken more stuff on less bike
before.

 

That's 9 inches by 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet, YTC.

 

Thats a meaty CPU. What is it ?

 

Ahh, OK. I stand corrected and accept the compliment.

 

You should have had a pizza delivery guy come for it on a scooter.

 

And the machine's only about 5 years old. This meaty server costs in
the region of $1,000,000.

It's a Stratus Continuum 7100 model.

 

The processor maybe, not the complete unit.

 

...and? I've just brought a microwave oven back from Curry's on the
DT. Followed closely by a 50 l bag of compost from the garden centre.

Dinner's gonna be lovely tonight!

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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:05:04 +0200,

The 72 MHz or the 96 MHz model?

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96Mhz model. Why?

 

Just thinking it ironic that something that slow was once
so expensive (a bit like my paying CHF17,000 for a 500 MHz Alpha that
my £1700 laptop probably runs rings around nowadays).

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Heh, very true. The newer models that run on Intel architecture are
half the size (if you're not using X25) and about 2/3 the price. But
anything between 4 - 10 times faster than the 1229. The thing is
customers pay for the OS, just as much as the hardware, hence the price.

The one thing that the company I work for has got going for it and
that's a very loyal customer base. Mickey Mouse in France just changed
their two 1229's for V200's recently, as they won't go for anything
else.

We've still got customers running old XA/R's, XA2000's, etc in the
field. They're just so robust, that customers don't want to change
them. Even if they do run at the speed of a ZX Spectrum.

 

African - or European?

 

Mmmmm. Nuked compost - to be eaten with Hot Pete, perhaps?