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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello all,
----------------------------------------Just wondering, would it be possible to post some specifications and, even better, pictures of the hardware which is used for the WCG?? I've always been interested in all kinds of technologies and, for some reason, I found it always very interesting to see the specifications and pictures of the machines to which my pc was communicating. I would expect that the WCG servers take up quite some space and electrical power. So if possible, please give us a small sneak-peek??    |
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Former Member
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Maybe some smiling faces in those pics too? Come on guys, toss out all the pizza boxes, coffee cups, etc. and show us what ya got.
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David Autumns
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Hi depriens, Dagorath
----------------------------------------I've always suspected, with the lack of any evidence to prove otherwise, that knreed has this whole gig running on a dusty old 386 under the stairs somewhere in the depths of IBM. You remember, back in the days when 100Mb was a big disk drive and 4Mb of RAM cost as much as a small car   |
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Former Member
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I believe there could be some truth to that. One knreed has been poking around the retro forums looking for floppy drive cables with card edge connectors and a turbo switch for an old Packard Bell chassis. Could it be the same knreed?
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Former Member
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Hello all, Just wondering, would it be possible to post some specifications and, even better, pictures of the hardware which is used for the WCG?? I've always been interested in all kinds of technologies and, for some reason, I found it always very interesting to see the specifications and pictures of the machines to which my pc was communicating. I would expect that the WCG servers take up quite some space and electrical power. So if possible, please give us a small sneak-peek??  Hi Depriens A very timely request Sir!I have passed this on to the powers that be and they have advised me that they already intended to include it in the next Newsletter [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 20, 2006 3:20:58 PM] |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ah, great! Always interesting to see some technical specs. Especially something so big as the WCG. Thanks a lot!
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