OT how much power can you *get* from a windmill?

David Nicol wrote:

> There's this very old and neearly dead daydream of having
> a public internet-login at the Infinite Sun space, 1732 Oak,
> downtown.  That might be a good place to set up the cluster.
> Especially if they succeed in putting a windmill on the roof
> for the electricity.  Anyone feel like putting together
> a general power supply that can switch 24VDC into everything
> you need to make AT* motherboards happy?
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> Duane Attaway wrote:
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>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
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>>> Should we have a contest for the oldest/cheesiest hardware with linux
>>> currently installed?  Anyone got any working 386 stuff?  486-sx?  I
>>> actually bit the bullet and pitched a bunch of ancient machines when I
>>> moved, or I'd be in the running with a 386sx system I used to test
>>> firewall software...
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>> I have an old 386 laptop with a generous 4MB of ram.  There was one 
>> floppy
>> distribution that worked great.  Took forever to boot, but I had a shell
>> to play with.
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>> Once I tried to boot a hard drive with redhat installed on it.  It
>> complained about running out of memory trying to spawn the tty's and
>> didn't do much after that.
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>> Its a neat little laptop.  Easy on the batteries.  Perhaps if I make a
>> really pruned down kernel, it would be useful.
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