Re: Product idea

On 2/12/25 12:27, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

  A few kW of computers costs much more

than a few kW of nichrome wire resistance elements.

I remember back in the ECL mainframe days the waste heat was used to heat the computer center. When IBM announced a new series with much lower power consumption we proposed a spoof commercial with a bunch of people huddled around their new mainframe discussing doubling their compute power to get enough heat.
My research advisor was telling us when he used an IBM 650 (tube based!) in Montana they had a low heating bill in the winter, but the summer air conditioning bill was high.