Here is another render I recovered from an old drive.  This is one I used about
15 years ago.  I know there are a gazillion 3d renders of PCs, but it was fun to
model.

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On 11/1/25 22:32, Clarence1898 wrote:
> Here is another render I recovered from an old drive.  This is one I used about
> 15 years ago.  I know there are a gazillion 3d renders of PCs, but it was fun to
> model.

Oh my - ISPF! :-)

Bill P.

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"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Here is another render I recovered from an old drive.  This is one I used about
> 15 years ago.  I know there are a gazillion 3d renders of PCs, but it was fun to
> model.

Very nice and detailed.

But the totally wrong operating system.
There are clear point deductions for this, sorry

:)

ma

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > Here is another render I recovered from an old drive.  This is one I used about
> > 15 years ago.  I know there are a gazillion 3d renders of PCs, but it was fun to
> > model.
>
> Very nice and detailed.
>
> But the totally wrong operating system.
> There are clear point deductions for this, sorry
>
> :)
>
> ma
This is what a real operating system runs on.  A pair of IBM z800-2066
processors with 9037 sysplex timers and timer management console.  This is from
about 2005. The screen on the monitor is not the proper image, unfortunately I
don't have the correct one for the timers.  Oddly the application that
controlled the timers was a windows 3.1 app running under os/2.

:)

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"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Here is another render I recovered from an old drive.  This is one I used about
> 15 years ago.  I know there are a gazillion 3d renders of PCs, but it was fun to
> model.

Great! Funny, I never did a model of a PC. You can tell that it's an old model
because of the cords to the mouse & keyboard. I've abandon cords as soon as
cordless came out:)

Have Fun!

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"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:

> > ma
> This is what a real operating system runs on.  A pair of IBM z800-2066
> processors with 9037 sysplex timers and timer management console.  This is from
> about 2005. The screen on the monitor is not the proper image, unfortunately I
> don't have the correct one for the timers.  Oddly the application that
> controlled the timers was a windows 3.1 app running under os/2.
>
> :)

Its not a rendering, but this is MY "workstation".
Raspberry Pi, Linux Debian.

m

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hi,

"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > > ma
> > ...  A pair of IBM z800-2066 processors ...
> Its not a rendering, but this is MY "workstation".
> Raspberry Pi, Linux Debian.

a few of those might give that IBM machine a run for its money :-)
<www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton_web.pdf>


@Clarence1898.  v nice.


regards, jr.

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"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> hi,
>
> "Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > > > ma
> > > ...  A pair of IBM z800-2066 processors ...
> > Its not a rendering, but this is MY "workstation".
> > Raspberry Pi, Linux Debian.
>
> a few of those might give that IBM machine a run for its money :-)
> <www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton_web.pdf>
>
>
> @Clarence1898.  v nice.
>
>
> regards, jr.

You're probably right, the pi is a very capable machine.  The IBM processors
aren't that much faster, I think maybe somewhere in the vicinity of 5 mhz.  The
z800's have a maximum of 4 cpus.  The difference would be in the i/o.  I've seen
these machines do in excess of 10000 i/o's per second and not even break a
sweat.  There is an IBM mainframe emulator called Hercules
(www.hercules-390.org) that I run on my raspberry-pi 5.  For a single user it's
as fast as the real thing.

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>
> > > ma
> > This is what a real operating system runs on.  A pair of IBM z800-2066
> > processors with 9037 sysplex timers and timer management console.  This is from
> > about 2005. The screen on the monitor is not the proper image, unfortunately I
> > don't have the correct one for the timers.  Oddly the application that
> > controlled the timers was a windows 3.1 app running under os/2.
> >
> > :)
>
> Its not a rendering, but this is MY "workstation".
> Raspberry Pi, Linux Debian.
>
> m
Did you ever run Raspian Linux on your pi?  How do they compare?  I tried
OpenSuse on mine but had some trouble with it and went back to Raspian.  I
haven't tried Debian.

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