Any Pr1me fans out there?

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Wed Sep 9 09:38:42 1998

>
> A previous employer of mine bought a cool mini/PC several years ago: An
> NCR 3000 series. Could handle something like 8 CPU cards with multiple
> pentiums, had a UPS in the cabinet, 50 some hot-swappable SCSI bays, 512MB
> of ram, multiple micro-channel buses and SCSI adapters, SVr4, etc.

We use them at work, here. The model that I have personally seen that most
resembles your description is the NCR 3555. We have those and bigger boxes
like the NCR 4380, which I think runs PPro boards, not just Pentia. NCR's
latest offerings are PCI, not Microchannel, at least. They do have some nice
quad-SCSI cards, fiber serial cards (AT&T Datakit) and more, but no sound
card. :-(

> On the back of the small-refrigerator sized box were a PC-style VGA and
> keyboard connector! It would boot and run MS-DOS ;) hahaha.
>
> -Wayne

I got such a kick out of that when I saw someone boot DOS to run a diagnostic
package that I commented on what a nice Quake server this $100K (new) server
would make. I got such a dirty look. ;-)
Received on Wed Sep 09 1998 - 09:38:42 BST