IMNSHO, we should stop our quest for quiet HP3000 fans. For we are all 3000
fans on this list, and, at times, we are quite noisy.

Christian, who still can't resist a pun

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de F. Alfredo Rego
> Envoye : jeudi 13 novembre 2003 05:43
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> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] Searching for crippled hp3000 fans
>
>
> At 20:25 -0800 11/12/03, John Burke wrote:
>
> >Alfredo tries to be heard over the noise of his new A-class systems,
>
> ...
>
> >HP's engineers apparently do not know how to do quiet. I've
> got a NetServer
> >E60 I use as a Linux server, and which supposedly was
> designed for an office
> >environment, but makes more noise than all my other machines combined
> >(HP3000 927, IBM AS400 270 and Micron mini-tower PC). Much
> more noise. The
> >fans are so loud I only turn it on when I need to work with
> the box. It was
> >a major disappointment.
>
> Funny you should mention this, because I experienced exactly the same
> kind of noisy ecosystem.  Well, not quite, because I had an hp3000
> 995-500 (which whispers very pleasantly), an hp3000 918, an
> hp3000 928, two Mac PowerBooks (15" and 17"), 3 iMacs, 1 Mac Cube,
> two Mac towers, three Dell laptops (8500, 8600, and x300) and one
> Dell Workstation 350.  Cinderella and Cenicienta made quite a racket
> compared to the other machines.
>
> The most splendid (because of its power) in terms of super-quiet
> behavior is the Dell Workstation 350, which I use to "drive" a
> ViewSonic 2400 x 3840 flat-screen monitor.  The monitor's fan (very
> quiet in its own right) is actually noisier than the fan on its
> assigned Dell Workstation -- Impressive!
>
> Shouldn't HP be able to invent quieter fans than Apple and Dell?
>
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