• jpkiwigeek

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 23 03:36:25 2024
    Originally from NZ, he lives in the US somewhere with a huge barn, full of vintage computing hardware, plus a small corner where his wife can do her scrapbooking <https://www.youtube.com/@jpkiwigeek>.

    The channel hasn’t been inactive in some years. Somewhere in there you
    will see his attempts at getting a monstrous SGI server cluster,
    consisting of 5 graphics/video units coupled to 5 computing units (each
    the size of, say, a hotel room minifridge), to start up properly with one computing unit always consistently in control, until he has to give up
    because the power supply has failed.

    Still trying to understand the point of that 1990s hardware with
    multiboard graphics units positively bristling with video connections--I
    think they were to do real-time graphics rendering direct to videotape.

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  • From David Goodwin@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 25 17:58:52 2024
    In article <utlinp$3dr1h$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid says...

    Originally from NZ, he lives in the US somewhere with a huge barn, full of vintage computing hardware, plus a small corner where his wife can do her scrapbooking <https://www.youtube.com/@jpkiwigeek>.

    The channel hasn?t been inactive in some years. Somewhere in there you
    will see his attempts at getting a monstrous SGI server cluster,
    consisting of 5 graphics/video units coupled to 5 computing units (each
    the size of, say, a hotel room minifridge), to start up properly with one computing unit always consistently in control, until he has to give up because the power supply has failed.

    Still trying to understand the point of that 1990s hardware with
    multiboard graphics units positively bristling with video connections--I think they were to do real-time graphics rendering direct to videotape.

    Meanwhile I believe Mike Ross at some point moved *to* New Zealand
    bringing some part (all?) of his collection with him: http://www.corestore.org/compute.htm

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to David Goodwin on Mon Mar 25 05:42:06 2024
    On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:58:52 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:

    Meanwhile I believe Mike Ross at some point moved *to* New Zealand
    bringing some part (all?) of his collection with him: http://www.corestore.org/compute.htm

    That’s a pretty terrifying collection to bring to such a small country ...

    Any idea where he’s ended up?

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  • From David Goodwin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 26 18:39:58 2024
    In article <utr2re$tgsb$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid says...

    On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:58:52 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:

    Meanwhile I believe Mike Ross at some point moved *to* New Zealand
    bringing some part (all?) of his collection with him: http://www.corestore.org/compute.htm

    That?s a pretty terrifying collection to bring to such a small country ...

    Any idea where he?s ended up?


    Wellington area IIRC

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to David Goodwin on Tue Mar 26 06:15:01 2024
    On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:39:58 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:

    In article <utr2re$tgsb$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid says...

    Any idea where he’s ended up?

    Wellington area IIRC

    Hmm, wonder what’s happened to the building in Paraparaumu that used to
    house the (sadly gone) Len Southward Motor Museum ...

    ... that might be big enough ...

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