[AusNOG] Sad retirement day...

[Bradley Amm]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/server_retired_after_18_years_and_ten_months_beat_that_readers/


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On 13 Jan 2016, at 5:27 PM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net<mailto:ausnog at rossw.net>> wrote:



On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Mark Smith wrote:

An interesting question would be when would it have become cheaper to
replace it just on the power savings alone.

In the last 7 years, it's run entirely off renewable energy, so "cost of power" has been basically zero.

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

I bought one of these a few years ago for around $60 just to play with
after loading up OpenWRT on it (and haven't actually really done anything
with it.)

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.

It was only after buying it did I realise it had a more powerful CPU, more
RAM, more storage and ran on far less power than the first computer I ever
bought - a 80486 for around $4k in somewhere around 1990.

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!

R.
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