Thanks! As I mentioned in that post, 8KB of core memory (for a Data General Eclipse S/200) was $22,000 in 1976. That system had a whopping 10MB of disk, too!Just wanted to say thanks for the write up(s.) I especially liked looking at your first build, the original RAIDZilla. In that 11yr old article you commented on how amazing it was to have 2GB DIMMs in such a small physical space! I guess I'm just used to it by now but it's truly amazing how much can change over a decade in IT. Anyway, thanks for documenting your systems!
I just finished building this kit. The CPU for it is a Raspberry Pi, and it is something like 20x faster when emulating the PDP-11/70 (complete with the front panel) than the original 11/70. The original cost $80,000 for a stripped-down unit (CPU only, minimal memory, no disk) in 1975. The Raspberry Pi 3 B+ is $40.
NTP. It is from CSS Time Machines (now just Time Machines). It is running custom firmware they made for me - believe it or not, their "normal" idea of military time doesn't have the leading zero!Just saw some pics of your setup..is that rackmount clock linked to NTP? Or just a "regular" clock. Got a link for it?
If you go to this page, you can follow my servers all the way back to late 1999.