Found a NCR system 3400 BoatAnchor

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Sun Oct 13 19:43:02 2002

BTW, for all you microchannel-heads out there. I have quite a few 100Mbps
Ethernet cards for microchannel new in box.

Peace... Sridhar

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sipke de Wal wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Found a NCR system 3400 BoatAnchor
>
>
> >
> > I used to work in a group at Lucent (in Columbus, OH) that
> > maintained Suns and NCR 34xx machines. How many MicroChannel
> > SCSI cards does yours have? Ethernet?
> >
>
> 1 x SCSI, 0 x Ethernet although i may have an IBM one somewhere
>
> > /snip
>
> > If you want to run multi-processor UNIX (NCR's MP-RAS) on what
> > are probably P-90 chips, it's a fine little beast. Otherwise,
> > it's an I/O-heavy desktop machine. A giant PeeCee, really.
> >
>
> Hmm, was afraid of that, more or less .............
> I'll propably will salvage usable parts from it and turn to
> more vintage stuff like Sun or Intergraph stations for projects ..........
>
> If somebody is in dire need of a low weight part of this machine ?
> Let me know (soon! ;-)
>
> >
> > I was told that you could stick in a DOS boot floppy and play
> > DOOM on one. Never got the chance, though. :-)
> >
>
>
> Sipke de Wal
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Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 19:43:02 BST

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