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On 13 Jan 2016, at 5:27 PM, Ross Wheeler <<a href="mailto:ausnog@rossw.net">ausnog@rossw.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span>On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Mark Smith wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>An interesting question would be when would it have become cheaper to</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>replace it just on the power savings alone.</span><br>
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<span>In the last 7 years, it's run entirely off renewable energy, so "cost of power" has been basically zero.</span><br>
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<span>But it's still a valid point. It was never a particularly hungry beast - I couldn't have run say, a DL-380 here because of the power it would have consumed - but this box (no kb, no monitor) took (from memory) under 50W</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I bought one of these a few years ago for around $60 just to play with</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>after loading up OpenWRT on it (and haven't actually really done anything</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>with it.)</span><br>
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<span>I've got a bunch (30 or 40 or so) WRG54GL devices reflashed to openWRT, running all over the country doing all sorts of things. They're remarkably robust, but lack several things I specifically needed on this old box.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>It was only after buying it did I realise it had a more powerful CPU, more</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>RAM, more storage and ran on far less power than the first computer I ever</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>bought - a 80486 for around $4k in somewhere around 1990.</span><br>
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<span>It's amazing. I look at some of the tiny little PIC chips I embed in things. Not much more than 5mm x 3mm, run on a milliwatt or so, with processor speeds around 80MHz, and including a bunch of IO and A/D channels... and cost about $2 each!</span><br>
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