[Gllug] Home desktop PC rebuild with Linux?

[Peter Childs]

On 25/11/05, mfaz001-foo at yahoo.com <mfaz001-foo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In the 80's I was project-managing a client site with
> 600+ lawyers
> connected to a Bull DPX box and a largish PC box

Hmm we've still got one The Bull (DPS6 in our case) was (or is) not a
bad machine. We're replacing it slowly with a Linux based system on.
Much as the Bull has it quirks it still does quite a few things
faster, better and more relably than any modern PC based system.
Reasons for replacing it... The need for a gui and colour,  and the
fact that we can't get parts when it goes wrong. Also the lack of
people with the right skills to adminsitrate it.

Peter

> called an equitrack box which connected to every fax,
> photocopier and telex machine so they could enter
> client codes for every little thing. Lawyers have a
> mania for this
> stuff. The client had gone cheap on the machine room,
> it was a
> largish cupboard.
>
> The programmer I was working with suddenly announced
> "oh f**k,
> I've just disconnected the equitrack box!"
>
> In my rush to reconnect it, I brushed past the DPX
> which had a
> left-right on-off switch (bad ergonomincs). In two
> seconds, we brought
> the entire company to it's knees.
>
> As the truth sank in, the phone started ringing. The
> programmer went
> out for a cigarette and I started making weak excuses.
>
>
> Mark
>
> --- "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > This sounds like a promising new thread !  hehe
> > How about some some tales of near disaster and
> > mayhem ?
> >
> > I can offer (off to the top of my head, not very
> > disastrous):
> >
> > Many years ago, our new 16-bit mini was equipped
> > with a nice programmers
> > front-panel - lots of lovely flashing lights.
> > (Mercifully before it was
> > 'live') my boss demonstrated to a customer how he
> > could cause the machine to
> > reboot by shuffling his feet hard on the carpet and
> > touching the front panel
> > with his finger   - amazing stuff static!
> >
> > Tim
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