--- Alex White <meltlet_at_fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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...
We used machines like this at Lucent (since AT&T owned NCR at one time).
I was the Solaris dude, so I didn't get into them much, but they were
largish (larger than a VAX-11/750, anyway) with differential SCSI,
MicroChannel for the older boxes, PCI for the newer ones, typically
4-way Pentia in the models we had, but slow - 4xP-90 in one case, for
example. If someone blurted out a model number, I might recognize it,
but I can't recall what we used; as I said, I didn't take care of them;
I just walked past them to the aisles of SPARCserver 5000s and 3000s
I _did_ take care of.
Our group stopped buying them as soon as the suits stopped making us.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 00:05:09 GMT