some serious retro here!

[stj]

http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/0.htm

the RADON system is cool - 2 systems that can share each other's ram!

[momaka]

Re: some serious retro here!

^ I guess that's the great great grandfather of the dual core CPUs today

I think this one is even more interesting, though:
http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/strela.htm
Power consumption: 150 kW
Beats my Pentium D 830 in that regard, I suppose .

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: some serious retro here!

Lol

[stj]

Re: some serious retro here!

Power consumption: 150 kW
Beats my Pentium D 830 in that regard, I suppose .

that's an unfair comparison, the cpu-unit is only 150kW
having said that, with an area of 150 sq. m that would need a shitload of arctic silver!!!

[momaka]

Re: some serious retro here!



*gets out a floor mop and bucket of Arctic Silver*

If you think about it, though, 150 kW spread over a 150 sq. m area won't produce that much heat. That's basically 1 kW for every square meter... or 1000 Watts per 1 000 000 square mm, if you like. An average CPU and GPU these days has 100-300 sq. mm core size. Let's take it to be 200 sq. mm - a size 5000 times smaller. That means the heat dissipation of the above CPU would be about 1000 Watts / 5000 = 0.2 Watts per 200 sq. mm area.

So the conclusion is, you won't even need a heatsink!

Now solve this problem:
Imagine you take enough Pentium D CPU cores and put them side by side to cover an area of 150 sq. meters. If a single Pentium D core is rated for 130 Watts TDP and has an area of approximately 200 sq. mm, what would be the power consumption of this CPU?

*Hint 1: Assume the power supply is not a PowMax

[keeney123]

Re: some serious retro here!

Yes, this actually goes back to the 1930's with tube computers that would do a couple of operations. Some of the tubes were 30 feet high. In 1948 when the transistor came out, Westinghouse got 6 electrical engineers together and put up 2 million dollars to make a transistor computer that could do 9 operations. I was fortunate enough to have one of those engineers for and instructor at PVTI in Clearwater, FL. He explained to me that because he had Boolean Algebra in college it became his job to create the program for the computer. He said he was able to do 8 operations, but they wanted 9. He said he was getting worried because the owner had put in so much money. Then one day when he woke up it came to him. His last name was like Volary. He had a heart condition and could not tolerate the students without getting upset so he only lasted one month as a teacher. He knew his tan., sine and cosine functions by memory. He taught me about radiation of light from a tube.