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Sort-of-a-Conquest: ThinkPads, Mobility, UNIX Iron.

If I was independently wealthy I'd have a sweet data center full of Sun and SGI gear.

And and army of undead minions at my command, but that is another story entirely. :evil:

 
I see your undead minions, and raise you an army of flying monkeys.

Fly, my pretties, FLY!

 
I'm still searching high and low for one of these:

ThinkPad 800 series

The ThinkPad 800 series (800/820/821/822/823/850/851/860) were unique in that they were based on the PowerPC architecture, rather than the Intel x86 architecture. They all used the PowerPC 603e CPU, at speeds of 100 MHz, or 166 MHz in the 860 model. The 800 may have used a 603, and it is unclear if the 800 was experimental or not. All units used SCSI 2 instead of IDE hard disks. The units are believed to have all been extremely expensive, as the 850 cost upwards of $12,000. The 800 series can run Windows NT 3.5 (probably 4.0 as well), OS/2, AIX 4.14, Solaris Desktop 2.5.1 PowerPC Edition, and Linux.

I will find one someday!! I swear it!!!

 
I think defor has two 820s.

Anyway, any iron bigger than the U60 I want is probably going to be something that's single-image. A huge SGI ORIGIN or Onyx system would be perfect.

Alas, I'm more likely to get a macpro than an Origin or an Onyx. [:P] ]'>

 
I hear ya on the MacPro.

With 8 cores, huge RAM pool, PCI-e and SATA2 it's a ridiculously fast UNIX box. I want to get one and slap NetBSD on it.

Mmmm....speed.

 
I'd probably keep OS X on mine, but I can imagine simultaneously running every major x86 OS inside VMware Fusion virtual machines. That or a lab's worth of Vista VMs, plus a Server2008 or two.

And to think of how many NT4 VMs could potentially run comfortably with that much power.

And heck, it'd make a great photo processing box too -- but such power is out of the question for a few years yet.

 
I'm still searching high and low for one of these:
ThinkPad 800 series

The ThinkPad 800 series (800/820/821/822/823/850/851/860) were unique in that they were based on the PowerPC architecture, rather than the Intel x86 architecture. They all used the PowerPC 603e CPU, at speeds of 100 MHz, or 166 MHz in the 860 model. The 800 may have used a 603, and it is unclear if the 800 was experimental or not. All units used SCSI 2 instead of IDE hard disks. The units are believed to have all been extremely expensive, as the 850 cost upwards of $12,000. The 800 series can run Windows NT 3.5 (probably 4.0 as well), OS/2, AIX 4.14, Solaris Desktop 2.5.1 PowerPC Edition, and Linux.

I will find one someday!! I swear it!!!
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Sadly I used to have one of those. It was password protected and I damaged it trying to clear it out. I ended up giving it to a friend who was a bit of a tech packrat. He had so much stuff in his car I swore it would flip over if he ever cleaned it out. :)

I don't remember the exact model number, but I do remember the PowerPC logo on the case.

 
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