16 Nov
2012
16 Nov
'12
2:11 p.m.
On 11/16/2012 04:06 PM, Adrian Graham wrote:
I've never heard of one crashing. Bizarre.
We had two 8400s (8x 5/300) in the datacenter at a previous job. They
were really quite nice machines. They did a lot of offline processing
for a pre-Google search engine called Altavista.
I have a
large number of TurboLaser Bus modules here, for
AS8000-family machines. I've been unsuccessful in finding one to put
them in...I want an 8200 or an 8400, but they seem to have completely
disappeared. I haven't seen one on the market for YEARS. I have no
idea of what's up with that.
The only TurboLaser I ever saw in the wild was an 8400 being field tested at
ICI Dumfries (Scotland) while I was installing a TruCluster of 4100s. It
looked very Heath Robinson and the engineer on site swore at it most foul
because of it's tendency to crash. These days I walk past its offspring
every day, we have several large Alphas in the warehouse at work, the
biggest being a GS60e which is the direct descendent.
Very nice! Take them home!
I power 'em up from time to time, the noise of
that, an AXP7710 and a
VAX6200 is almost music to my ears :)
Glorious!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA