19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
5:44 a.m.
On 02/19/2013 01:43 AM, mc68010 wrote:
On 2/18/2013 11:03 PM, E. Groenenberg wrote:
My 700 with its '030 wasn't too bad, though. It was used by IXI as a
development host for their X.desktop software, so it had a full X release
on there and yet was still reasonably capable. I suppose raw
number-crunching performance was comparable to PCs of only a year or two
later, but the Towers were packed with cache and local processors on the
various boards, so real-world multi-user performance was still pretty good.
cheers
Jules
The label says, Series: 3400 Model:2114 and nothing else. It's a large
skinny steel tower the a massive motherboard with a 68010 on it and uses
multibus boards for all the rest. I think it was called a 'NCR Tower XP'
by what I can find through google. It looks like the second from the
right here http://goo.gl/r3HTl
That sounds indeed like a NCR Tower XP to me. I used to work on those
and in order to complete a project in time I had one at home for 2 months.
Ed
It must have been fun to compile on one of these. I imagine most of those 2
months was was doing something else while waiting on it to finish.