Talos II

Anyone who is interested in the Talos II? It's a POWER9-based system, with fully open firmware. They tried crowdfunding a similar machine a while back, but it didn't take hold. Now they're making one direct to market, and cheaper this time. I would love to have one if I could afford it.
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I looked. Really hard. For any peripherals that still used an rs-232 port. I couldn't find any, other than rs-232 to USB2 converters. Why bother including the port on the back panel? Why not just a UART pinout if they wanted a hardware terminal? Also, it could have done with an m.2 pcie slot or two, to maximize that coreboot boot time.

I'm considering buying one, but I'm going to wait for a review or five of the board before i make a decision, because i'd have to drop around 4k-4.5k making a PC around it, considering e-atx cases and ddr4 ram prices.

Also, why the fuck did they give it 16 ddr4 ram slots? you can get 128g ddr4 ram sticks.

For 2 TB RAM support, dumbass

ok I wrote that then checked the spec

Holy shit

wtf is Power9? Why would I want that? I might if most languages run/compile on it and the laptop has a mech keyboard

I would be if I wouldn't have to take out a second mortgage to get one.

I'd buy one no question if I wasn't unemployed.

are you stupid or something?

just Holla Forums my man

>>>/g/

I managed to find a couple old keyboards that use rs-232 connectors. Other than that, nothing. I was hoping i could find an old terminal screen/keyboard combo, but nothing usable turned up. I found one or two old keyboards that used the proper port, but why bother? Why the hell did they include 2 rs-232 ports? It seems like an utterly deprecated standard to me.

any industrial equipment made for past 30 years, hardware debug
Like proprietary intel cut dick much? NVMe bringup firmware is non-free and needs UEFI, thus mitigating estonishing coreboot boot times.

will buy if its still available when i have enough money