Google on hard drive failures

[Jules Richardson]

Martin Marshall wrote:
> 
>> I seem to recall an article that mentioned that the effects on 
>> "Titanic" were rendered using a room/closet full of Peecees (Dell, I 
>> think)...  Something about the hardware (running Linux, IIRC) cost 
>> less than $50K. 
> 
> 160 x 433Mhz Alpha's for the rendering farm.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2494

There used to be another good write-up about this on the web, but 
unfortunately I don't seem to have the URL any more to even plug into the 
wayback site.

I recall using it as evidence of Linux being used to solve real-world problems 
back in the 90s, when trying to win some people over to increased Linux usage 
at the place where I worked then.