# A peek inside the SDMB server room **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574 "2008-03-08T07:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/41 "2008-03-09T04:10:54Z")
I thought [this](http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5753/macgyver2rs.png) was Jerry. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/42 "2008-03-09T04:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace] Looks quite different from [my last tour](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/401727121_dc13303b85_o.jpg)! [/QUOTE] What was **that**? Please tell me it isn’t in use anymore! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/43 "2008-03-09T05:31:16Z")
Apparently everyone missed the 2008 server [upgrade](http://img1.imageshack.us/img1/9611/beerpc2fh.jpg). Pretty much explains everything IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/44 "2008-03-09T05:32:54Z")
I thought [this](http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ZX81-doorstop.jpg) was the new server. Apparently I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/45 "2008-03-09T05:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Actually, the SDMB has four or five of [these](http://www.otherpower.com/hamster.html) working in tandem. Scroll down to see all the workings. [/QUOTE] You _know_ somebody on the Dope is going to want to build that now ( **Gorsnak** , I’m looking at you. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/46 "2008-03-09T05:46:58Z")
[The awful truth](http://oldcomputermuseum.com/digicomp_2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/47 "2008-03-09T05:52:37Z")
[Spare Parts](http://www.gstube.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/48 "2008-03-09T06:35:25Z")
WTF is this [server](http://www.dubuquerotary.org/meetingfolders/Rotary11-01-05/Waitress.jpg) business? _Everyone_ knows that Jerry’s got the latest [Telecalculograph](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwhilde/sets/72157594363814399/) running this place! Sheesh! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/49 "2008-03-09T16:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=Will Repair] [Spare Parts](http://www.gstube.com/) [/QUOTE] I love the THYRATRON!!! If I ever write a science fiction novel, it will have a robot named THYRATRON in it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/50 "2008-03-09T16:35:31Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I love the THYRATRON!!! If I ever write a science fiction novel, it will have a robot named THYRATRON in it. [/QUOTE] And you can have a robotic Suzanne Somers hawking a Thyratron Master. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/51 "2008-03-09T17:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=TPWombat] [Oooh! Oooh!! My Turn!](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/sinclair/h/zx80.jpg) [/QUOTE] Ah, hell. I threw that away twenty years ago. Wish Jerry would stay out of my trash. Enough of the server, already! Here’s the [router](http://www.antiqueradio.com/images/Sep01-Crocker-WERT-Fig1.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/52 "2008-03-09T18:04:09Z")
[Router?](http://z.about.com/d/woodworking/1/0/t/3/-/-/RidgidRouter_Gallery.jpg) Jerry asked for a new one, and this is what purchasing came back with. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/53 "2008-03-09T18:42:24Z")
I wonder if they’ll upgrade their current [network connection](http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/hardware/pet_acc_coupler1.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/54 "2008-03-10T00:41:03Z")
Yarr, the pirates have seized control of the Dope, me hearties: [http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/davemarkowitz/pirates/pirate\_keyboard.jpg](http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/davemarkowitz/pirates/pirate_keyboard.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/55 "2008-03-10T00:51:42Z")
We wouldn’t have so much trouble if [these guys](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/posters) would stop trying to [hack the Gibson](http://binrock.net/permanent/2004/1005_sniffy/gibson.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/56 "2008-03-10T01:01:45Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Yarr, the pirates have seized control of the Dope, me hearties: [http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/davemarkowitz/pirates/pirate\_keyboard.jpg](http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/davemarkowitz/pirates/pirate_keyboard.jpg) [/QUOTE] I have it on very good authority that [this is the official SDMB keyboard.](http://www.terrencemiao.com/funny/2005-09/tn/gifjzJDr6BuQQ.gif.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/57 "2008-03-10T03:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] I have it on very good authority that [this is the official SDMB keyboard.](http://www.terrencemiao.com/funny/2005-09/tn/gifjzJDr6BuQQ.gif.html) [/QUOTE] I hear it also has one of [these](http://www.ravib.com/images/funny/anykey.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/58 "2008-03-10T03:15:50Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I wonder if they’ll upgrade their current [network connection](http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/hardware/pet_acc_coupler1.JPG). [/QUOTE] [They did.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Switchboardof1924.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/59 "2008-03-10T04:22:07Z")
No matter which one we think it is, I’ll bet Vin Diesel and Keanu Reeves are the sysadmins. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574/60 "2008-03-10T06:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] I think that is the work station at Jerry’s desk. [/QUOTE] Speaking of which, have you seen the guy’s [desk?](http://www.core77.com/hack2school/img/dr_furniture.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-peek-inside-the-sdmb-server-room/440574.md?page=4)