[AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I purchased exactly two computers in my life, the first was an Epson PC-XT to replace my 2nd 
homebuilt computer.  I bought that in 1986 when I was recovering from my motorcycle accident and was 
financed by the settlement from the accident.

The second computer I purchased was a Zeos '386 in 1988 (or thereabouts).

 From that time on I upgraded parts or bought parts and built computers from scratch, a practice I 
continue to this day.

The latest computer I built is a dual socket server (AMD) with (2) 8 core chips (16 cores total), 
and 96 gigs of RAM, an Areca 16 port (SATA II) raid controller hosting (12) 1 terabyte WD Black 
drives for 10 TB of RAID 6 storage, and a terabyte SSD Raid 6 array.  It runs Windows 2008 and SQL 
Server 2008 and is my 'monster in the basement'.  It does earn me a healthy living.

There is something satisfying about building your own.  Not to mention that buying that from Dell or 
HP would have cost me 3-4 times as much and I can upgrade my 'monster' as things age.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 9/13/2012 12:08 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I've still got a 486 in the garage.  Fine machine.  Still works.
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Goodhall
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> Right.  I have a space in the basement that my wife refers to (not
> affectionately) as The Computer Graveyard.
>
> Steve Goodhall, MSCS, PMP
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> -----Original message-----
> From: Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
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> Sent: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 15:44:14 GMT+00:00
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> You have talked me into it I have to through out some of my old computers.
>
> Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia,the free
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> And all you iPhone nerds think you got it bad...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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