Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

> After more than 10 years of service my first ever Linux system
> died yesterday. The original configuration was P4, 0.5G memory,
> two IDE HD of 60G each, and it pretty much stayed like that.
> Two years ago the power supply blew up and was replaced by an
> external one (too big to go inside). Last year the first HD
> failed, and yesterday evening the second.
>
> This was the system on which I developed almost everything I
> ever released, so it carries lots of memories... Maybe one
> of the reasons it decided to go to the eternal processing
> fields was that it couldn't really cope with A3. I've mixed
> 20+ tracks using A2 on that system, but 350MB resident memory
> for an empty session was just too much...
>
> The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the
> reasons being that this is one of the few still having at
> least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any
> suggestions for alternatives are welcome !
>
> More CPU and memory will in the end make me less frugal, but
> I'll resist the tendency :-)
>
> Ciao,
>

Another one bites the dust... Should've run Non on it instead. Seriously
though, it's a shame. Fortunately, there are still quite a few
motherboards out there with at least one PCI slot. I trust you had
everything backed up!

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Received on Fri Sep 6 08:15:06 2013