Definiatley NCR. I saw a couple at the UofM property disposition a year ago.
Those had 486 boards in them as I recall. If anyone needs power supplies
grab one of these, the entire bottom half is full of power supplies and
fans.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: big IBM on Ebay??
>
> --- g_at_kurico.com wrote:
> > Looks like an AT&T logo on the front. Probably an NCR if it has MCA
> > slots.
> >
> > George
> >
> > On 3 Jul 2002 at 2:37, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> >
> > > Don't really know what it is, but it claims to have MCA slots??
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2036499330
>
> ISTR "3555" is a model of NCR box. We used them when I was at Lucent
> (they were bought before AT&T "trivested" into AT&T, NCR and Lucent).
>
> They typically run SYSVr4, but I was told that you _could_ boot them
> to DOS and play DOOM on them (I didn't ask ;-)
>
> Big ones like that were MCA. Newer NCR servers were 1/3 the size and
> PCI. I think most of ours were quad Pentium-90 boxes.
>
> The thing of it is, I was brought into the group because they wanted to
> move to Sun SPARC hardware and Solaris and all of their expertise was
> with NCR (and older) UNIX platforms. I think when I left, they were
> over 50% Sun (in the data center our group ran.
>
> OK boxes, but nothing special unless you have a Dayton, OH, fetish (NCR
> headquarters).
>
> -ethan
>
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Received on Wed Jul 03 2002 - 09:16:57 BST