NCR 386/486 UNIX - Anyone remember this?

From: Alex White <meltlet_at_fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed Dec 19 18:13:45 2001

> > My wife recently got a job at a bridal retail chain that uses NCR 386/486
> > UNIX for the POS terminals and financial matters relating to the operation
> > of the store.
> >
> > It's running on what appears to be an NCR 386 (or 486?) with a tape backup,
> > and services four WYSE terminals and a printer. Seems to be a standard
> > setup for the stores in this chain.


> application that used to run on a NCR unix box (aka UNISYS machine) (and a
> mini from NCR,
> which I cant seem to remember the name) to the 486-based NCR
> unix machine. Great stuff then! In fact, the NCR unix is just a repackaging

Wow! This reminds me of a machine i've got sitting in storage for me in
scotland - must remember to collect it sometime... Apparently it's a
4-way 486 SMP box with passive backplane, which ran NCR UNIX. Came out
of bank though, hard disks had to be physically trashed - the whole 2
cabinets of SCSI disks all were put thru with a hammer...
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 18:13:45 GMT