[rescue] Graphics on a E450

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/2/25 12:05, Stephen Conley via rescue wrote:
> You could do this to have a true monster of a workstation.  It was my 
> 'desktop' machine back in the early 2000's for quite a large number of 
> years.  Long enough that I had to replace fans in it and went through 
> several hard drives for which I was thankful to have a drive cage and 
> tons of redundancy :D
> 
> Is it a good idea?  I'd say objectively no.  But I was a young guy with 
> money to burn, a fascination for multi-processor machines, and little to 
> no common sense so there you have it. That said, I wouldn't judge anyone 
> who wanted to do it ... like I said in my other post, it's the machine I 
> have the fondest memory of.  Nothing I had that came after it had that 
> same like 'omg my desktop is a supercomputer' vibe :)
> 
> Even if objectively the laptop I'm typing this email on is way more of a 
> supercomputer than that E450 ... Ah, hardware just isn't as much fun 
> anymore :)

   Well....yeah.  I can't disagree with that.  For a long time my main 
desktop workstation was a 4/600 processor board with two SM61s two CG6s 
in a 3-slot VME chassis (a "4/110" chassis). B-)

   Not so different from an SS10, but I didn't have an SS10. ;)

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA