asciilifeform: (properly fanless, incl. power block)
asciilifeform: fucking fans. been searching for a fanless 486 for years.
asciilifeform: woulda been a nifty thing - 12 inch across, square, solid steel case, 1 isa slot, no fans.
asciilifeform: unless vendor lied, it's likely been cracked (in pcb) in shipping
asciilifeform gives up the would-have-been-very-spiffy fanless 486 he bought, for dead. no output on any port. damnation.
asciilifeform: (though i'd really enjoy hearing some rationale as to why they did this)
asciilifeform: but again i'm not therealbitcoin. if mod6 and ben_vulpes wish to move to 4chan, 8chan, 4096chan - up to them
asciilifeform: and i am also not clear on why we would want to move from a box adminned by an l1 man in good standing to some random thing shared with a million bozos
asciilifeform: it obsoletes all other spam filtration and membership mechanisms
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-05-2015#1132928 << and not remotely close to all the fat has been trimmed, even. within your lifetime, a house (even miniature house) occupied by just one family will become unspeakable luxury, as the sovietization continues☝︎
asciilifeform: i lacked the last two items and so did not buy.
asciilifeform: punkman: but you also must include the cost of transport (even across the street - not cheap!), 3phase mains, and climate-controlled floor to park it on.
asciilifeform: punkman: not far from where i live, one of those things sold (surplus) for 1k or so.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-05-2015#1132555 << had the thought, that a 'future pgp' could easily include a feature for key agglomeration - where an old key remains in continuous use when upgraded with new one, whereby signatures actually include both side-by-side at all times, while enciphering takes them in turn. thus, you get the added key length (and fresh keymat) from new key, while demonstrating that you are th☝︎
asciilifeform: (and, in past few years, a kind of reborn version of it, 'mram')
asciilifeform: the only magnetic circuit item that remained in use, for a while, was ferrite ram
asciilifeform: some work continued for rad-hard/far-space applications, but nothing public came of it
asciilifeform: so for folks who don't read links, u.s. folk were most of the way to fabricating microscale magnetic circuits, when ic was discovered and entire field evaporated
asciilifeform: Namworld: where will you put electron microscope in small space?
asciilifeform: 'the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread' (TM) (R)
