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   Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal   
   life ?   
   13 Feb 20 22:40:06   
   
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   Hello Maurice!   
      
   30 Jan 2020 22:41, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    MK> Yes.  Speaking for myself java died when Sun Microsystems went out of    
    MK> business but to be honest java was never doable on any of my systems    
    MK> ever.  Why would you want java?   
      
   without java there would not be any android devices   
      
    BP>> so 3 raspberrypi with ssh ?   
    MK> I only have one and at the moment it isn't running.   
      
   yes same happend with all my devices, lost time and spirrit with them   
      
    MK>  The 3 that I am    
    MK> using are all x86_64 although I am keeping an eye on the risc-v    
    MK> development but so far it is only out of curiousity.   
      
   good or bad ?   
      
    MK> As for the    
    MK> raspi3b+ I have, my plan is to get it working with pure DC input    
    MK> sometime this summer.   
      
   it can be simple as a power bank imho but to make it redudendant power banked   
   is not that simple   
      
    MK>  I am toying with the idea of using the new    
    MK> lithium iron phosphate batteries which are very expensive at the    
    MK> moment.   
      
   will explode ?   
      
    BP>> it have nice hardware such as a sas lto4 tape streammer   
      
    MK> Too expensive.   
      
   more likely too expansive to use :)   
      
    MK>  Also I haven't messed with tape drives since the early    
    MK> 1990's and did have access to external scsi exabyte drives but mostly    
    MK> worked with ye olde 9 track tapes.   
      
   i got a sysquest drive, looked like it was a new 8" floppy disk in cartridge   
   design :)   
      
    MK>  I'll stick with sata drives for    
    MK> now since they are way cheaper than tape.   
      
   yes maybe   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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