yeah, i do the same thing.. my uv3, spinning wren 7's, plus decstations 
and a
dec3000 alpha put out a nice whirring hum, on a couple of occasions 
during really bad storms ive powered everythign down except the one 
decstation on a UPS, and the place was _eerily_ quiet. its easy to not 
notice how used i was to fallign alseep to the sounds of the disks 
auto-calibrating themselves every so often and humming and spinning away 
downstairs (and you can hear it almost throughout the place.. :-) 
*sigh* the peecee kiidies dont know what theyre missing!

eagerly awaiting that 4000/600
isildur

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On 26 Jan, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > or i can sneak you all into the computer lab at work and you can sleep while
> > listening to the white noise of a data center.  (alas, no more VAXen)
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I hope there are enough UPSen? Early last year we had the first VAX
> geek meeting at Christophes "VAXcave" (his summer house). It was rather
> could outside - and inside the cave. So we powerd up lots of VAXen,
> DECstations, HP9000, Suns, ... An incredible noise. Especially from the
> MVII in the BA123 with thre RD54... We had a good sleep. ;-)
> But in the morning there was a power outage. The entire crew woke up
> imediately because of the silence. :-)))
> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> tsch|_,
>          Jochen
> 
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