Original Google!

[size13]

http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040406/http://google.stanford.edu/mvc-043f.jpg
The Original Google Hardware

main website: http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/google.stanford.edu/

[Zod]

seven years ago and it feels like ancient history!

[scared but happy]

Love it! Looks like my spare room.

[Plotloss]

Given the choice of working for anyone in any field I am probably quite embarrassed to say that for me, it would be Google.

Brilliance in accessible form...

[size13]

We have two of those server bottom left in our machine room. 7 Years ago when I started work here they were fantastically fast - now my laptop has faster processors and more ram and hdd space!

>> Edited by size13 on Thursday 15th September 11:48

[rico]

Plotloss said:

Given the choice of working for anyone in any field I am probably quite embarrassed to say that for me, it would be Google.

It would be good fun! Heard rumours they encourage their staff to spend one day a week working on their own projects and they have a team of girls that go around giving massages.

[schueymcfee]

There's a video you can download off the site which gives you a trip around the Californian base, looks fantastic - just like Microsoft by all accounts, with it's own shops, dry cleaning, parks, restaurants, tennis courts, etc.

They were advertsing for a position not so long ago and one of the requirements was at least TWO Phds!

[GregE240]

Ack!

IBM Model 95 server in that lot....

<shudder>

Bloody horrible things.

[malman]

Err I think thats thats an IBM F50. I have one in my server room

[agent006]

size13 said:

We have two of those server bottom left in our machine room.

Thank god for that, it's not just us then.

Although i have still got a Mk1 Dell Dimension running 2k server (far right in the pic). A raging P133 and 64mb ram. Feel the power.

[malman]

I can trump your p133 with a p120 running NT4 (so to be retired - at last)

[Plotloss]

malman said:

Err I think thats thats an IBM F50. I have one in my server room

F50?

Thats an AS/400 model if its the same thing.

The boxes are a wee bit bigger usually.

F50 and DASD would be the same size as two 32U rackmounts or thereabouts.

[Plotloss]

Just noticed the Lego in the original picture

One of the Google inventors reached the Geek hall of fame for building a working Lego inkjet printer.

[malman]

Plotloss said:

malman said: Err I think thats thats an IBM F50. I have one in my server room F50? Thats an AS/400 model if its the same thing. The boxes are a wee bit bigger usually. F50 and DASD would be the same size as two 32U rackmounts or thereabouts.

Nope its an RS/6000 F50 (7025 model code) with some power pc 604e in it.

Better view of it here

The lego turns out to be a home made scsi disk enclosure

[FourWheelDrift]

No, this is the original Google