Subj : Re: book: The Year-Round
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri May 09 2025 01:09:00

KW> The "Greenhouse Mounted Homelab", or powering your garden with computer
  > waste heat...

RM> Not sure how much waste heat my Windows 7 Dual Core Laptop would
RM> provide for such things...    B)

KW> Yeah, most of my compute workloads are running on a Thinkpad. Not much
  > heat there, just an annoying buzz when it gets dusty inside.

KW>Now, if you buy one of those cheap Dell 1u rack mount servers I see on
  >Craigslist, you've got some serious heat.

Ha, sort of reminds me of my 'old days' back when I first got into
IBM PC systems. (I started off the first few years running Apple's)
When I built the IBM from parts I bought a big server rack so that
any goodies I wanted to add into it would fit. It was way bigger than
needed since I was really just running a single motherboard with lots
of cards and such and multiple drives.. But it's all a sort of joke
now when you think back to horrendously expensive systems running
Windows 95 or 98 and paying $400 for a floppy drive or up around
$1500 for a 10 *MEG* hard drive.

And if that sounds expensive now, converting to todays dollars you
can just about triple those figures. Back then a medium level
computer would cost about as much as a really nice used car..   B)

But these days, every time I update my main computer, it gets
smaller and smaller, and costs less each time.

I've gone to eliminating a separate Desktop computer and getting
all the adapters so I can run a big monitor, keyboard and mouse
off of my Laptop, and then everything is on it if I want to travel,
I just unplug the extras and it turns back into a Laptop.

I so often her my sister saying when she's up here that something
she needs isn't on her Laptop, it's on her Desktop system at home.

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 * SLMR Rob  * Not saying I'm old but my first computer was an ENIAC
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