On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:38, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > 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-)
There a quad i486 one sitting in a garage in Scotland if anyone wants
it...
Alex
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Received on Wed Jul 03 2002 - 09:34:40 BST