[TenTec] OT Something to think about as we start the New Year:

[Gary Jacek]

Fled?  Who fled?

We're still running those "big, old" IBM "mainframes".

The processor is now much smaller than your household fridge, black and
built on CMOS
just like your PC.  And it's air cooled, just like the legions of Sun
servers and the
armies of administrators that manage -that- platform.

The disk storage is on arrays of small drives, just like the ones in your
PC.
Our entire mainframe disk array would fit several times over in my 8 by 10
foot shack,
with room to spare for an Argo V or two.

And we also run a herd of LINUX on the back 40, in our "big, old" IBM
mainframe.

So, when you walk up to an ATM to get some cash, or pay for your  next
TenTec
purchase with a credit card, don't forget that you just used a mainframe.

Tracking your next TenTec toy to your door on the FEDEX web site?  Yep,
another mainframe!

Mainframes are still out there.  You just don't notice them because they
(still) work so well!

73
Gary



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NJ0IP" <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Something to think about as we start the New Year:


> Five 9's is marketing and not obtainable in an "open" environment, but
four
> 9's is achievable.  To reach five 9's one would have to go back to
accepting
> a total solution with ALL hard and soft components out of one and the same
> house (e.g., IBM, DEC, HP, etc.) and that's what people fled from 10 years
> ago.  Today's reality is four 9's, but that's till pretty good.
> 73
> Rick