OT: Dark Tower

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Oct 15 13:32:27 2001

--- Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:00:14PM -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
> wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Iggy Drougge once stated:
> > >
> > > Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner skrev:
> > >
> > > > -spc (And my colocated server is called tower ... even though it's
> > > > not in a tower case ... )
> > >
> > > Then it must be an NCR, right?
> >
> > Yes, you are correct.
> >
> > Not many people get the joke though.
>
> Including me. Can you explain it?

NCR had a line of multibus-based 68K-family UNIX machines called "NCR
Towers" that were deeper and taller than today's full-sized towers
and weighed about 3x as much (got a pair of 'em myself). I haven't
opened mine in years, but ISTR there's a Multibus 68010 board,
a couple of RAM boards and an ESDI controller with two full-sized
5.25" ESDI drives in the base.

-ethan


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