OT: Dark Tower

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Oct 15 17:19:51 2001

Ethan Dicks skrev:

>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.

ISTR reading that very early SUNs used Multibus, too. What kind of bus was
that? What did it look like, and what other platforms used it?
It seems to have been quite popular at some time.

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