[Acm] Tested momentary switch & supercomputer in a box

Cameron Jordan McInally cameron.mcinally at nyu.edu
Sun Mar 16 17:33:38 PDT 2008


> I tested the momentary switch I connected to a pre-exisiting power 
> plug on a Pentium II which I am prepping and it worked.  Also, I will 
> buy 3 from the computer store for $3 each.  I have 3 momentary 
> switches left, so I will make some more for the future.

Sounds good.
 
> Also, we may want to consider putting this in next year's budget 
> request to the Student Government (ha, ha, ha):
> 
> Armari's project means that almost everything is custom-designed for 
> the purpose, including blocks, monitoring PCBs, piping, wiring and, of 
> course, chassis. In fact, there's nothing much which isn't grounds-up, 
> which is cool, if you'll excuse the pun.
> http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12299&page=2

Fancy stuff. Looks like someone is trying to follow in Cray's eccentric footsteps; which does not sound like that bad an idea.



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