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What's New - September 6, 2002
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New Server Donated to PCFA.ORG
One of PCFA.ORG's friends, Brett Wish, has contributed a new server to
the Prescott Community Freenet Association.
Brett has donated a complete Dell 6100 server built on December 20, 1997, and recently
removed from production at a data center. The unit is very clean -- not a spec of dust --
although the white case is slightly bent up. It has (4) Pentium Pro 200 CPUs, (4) Seagate
8+GB hard disk drives (it can handle 6) in hot swap trays and configured in RAID-5 (16+GB),
a Gigabyte of RAM, redundant 700 watt power supplies, an Intel EthernetPro 100 board, a
SCSI CDROM, and a Sony SFT-9000 12GB digital tape drive. It's 21" tall, 16" wide, 23" deep
and weighs about 140 pounds. There are (3) 5" cooling fans in the front and another on each
power supply. This system, when new, was about $25,000.
The new server went online around noon on Friday, October 4, 2002. The old Pentium 166
did NOT go down during that time, so the 531 day record it had achieved continues to build.
The new server reports "one of the PCFA.ORG servers" when it refers to the uptime.
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