nice ibm drive -- but the Sequent is slick

From: ip500 <ip500_at_home.com>
Date: Tue Apr 3 09:50:01 2001

        Hi Bill,
Slick OK but HUGE. It runs 386's [2 per card]. Came out of the Va Tech
computer lab ... along with my best find .. a fairly complete Intel
Hypercube setup [the early one in a 5' silver monolith, iPSC/1] .. runs
32 286 processors in parallel. It came with the Intel 310 front end and
a couple of 9 track tape drives. No terminal however. I've been toying
with the idea of trying to get it up and running. Paul Pierce says he
may have the O/S for it and some info/manuals/etc [which were sadly
missing and sorely needed!]
        regards, Craig
PS: Love those drives ... I'm trying to figure some way to hang one
[chains I guess] over my desk with a tracklight on it. I'd prefer not to
kill myself or my back while doing it though.

Bill Pechter wrote:
>
> ip500 wrote:
> >
> > In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
> > pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
> > http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
> > 1985!
> > Cheers, Craig
>
> The Sequent's a slick find.
>
> I worked for Pyramid their main competition. What CPU's are in the
> box.
>
> Bill
> --
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