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23/12/2001 13:02:57
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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23/12/2001 03:09:12
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>>The only problem there was that it's so cold that most of the processors need the fans to run backward to warm them up.
>
>Oh man, that would be a TechTv special... "Over clocking at the South Pole!"

Actually, something of the kind happened on a PDP machine once in mid-80s (heard it at a training course from the SysOp of the beast). There was a long weekend by the end of November (Republic Day two days off, plus two days weekend) and the heating in the building was turned off. First day in the machine wouldn't boot for several hours, until the room warmed up enough. Could be anything, from the disks being unable to spin up to speed, to thermic dilatation having some contacts broken. The layman's explanation was "it was so cold, that the chips have curled their legs".

BTW, the same guy has come up with the cheapest networking hardware system ever: frizbee network. I immediately saw forty guys in a big room shooting floppies at each other and couldn't stop laughing for quite a few minutes.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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