Hardest to Find Classic Computers

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue Dec 18 10:22:30 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Donzelli [mailto:aw288_at_osfn.org]

> > workstations. Clipper based, and pre-clipper (were they
> VAX?) Intergraph
> > systems.

> The early big servers were VAX based. In fact, they were mostly just
> rebadged. RCS/RI has an Intergraph VAX 8550. It has some
> really strange
> custom hardware in the disk controllers - something about
> these things
> could do searches thru files on the disks for specific
> graphics entities
> (for CAD) without bothering the processor. Odd.

"Really-strange-custom-hardware" was Intergraph's middle name for the
longest time. That's what makes their systems so interesting.

> > There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged Indigo, that's
> > relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale.

> CDC was rebadging IRIS 3000 machines as Cyber 910s.

*Really*? What are my chances of finding one? I'd love to have an IRIS
3000, if I found that I could fit it in the house. :) Did they run the
early versions of IRIX?

Regards,

Chris


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