> From: Ethan Dicks
>
> --- 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....
>
> __________________________________________________
>
Pretty neat box. Quad Pentium 133 with 256 MB of RAM? Just how much
RAM could that beast take?
It'd be quite the conversation piece as a workstation running NetBSD
(or something) and XWindows... 8-)
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