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1. bhtooefr (bhtooefr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 00:34:47 UTC bhtooefr

   Holy hell, I forgot how much power well.bhtooefr.org, my IBM POWER 520 Express, with 2x 4.2 GHz POWER6 Dual Cores, pulled at idle.

   The answer is 465.5 watts based on my current UPS load (62.4%), versus my UPS load without it (14.9%), and my UPS's 980 watt (1500 VA, but, well, power factor) rating.

   But, hey, it gives me pretty green screens like this:

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   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 00:44:25 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     @bhtooefr  is that a #mainframe? You could lease it to a bank…
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:12:29 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bhtooefr  ok, I did not understand everything (no expert here) but the Palm OS comparison is a bit surprising :-)
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:16:27 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bhtooefr I heard IBM mainframes support virtualisation at hardware level… can you run multiple Linux systems simultanueously?
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:23:07 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bhtooefr been using 68k Palm OS for a long time… also have been an Amiga user. IMO the AmigaOS was much superior to PalmOS
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:28:05 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bhtooefr a friend was a dev at a bank,he hated it – the IBM mainframes were (only?) used for old 1970-90s Cobol software. Afaik MVS  system
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:36:01 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
     @bhtooefr I played with an emulator for MVS once, called Hercules or Tur(n)key. Weird. To create a file you had to specify cylinders, IIRC