Subject: Re: VAX 8650 ...
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/17/2001 11:41:58
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:52:36PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> well, 22000 btu/hr is a bit less than most furnaces... which range in the 
> 100000+ realm.. but it is still a respectable amount of heat for a 
> Digital Electric furnaCe.. :) 
> 
> i would install a LOT of filters and actually run it using a small room not
> much bigger than the vax as a heat exchanger, to not have the VAX's fans be
> in series with the flow of air through the house- it would put more 
> strain on the VAX even if you helped them out with other fans.. the heat will
> not be lost anywhere, since youreheating the house one way or another.. :)
> 
> now... liquid cooled VAX? 
> a VAX 9000 would be even better for heating a whole house.. 8-)

The VAX 9000 is not liquid cooled.