17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
8:37 p.m.
I should add to the list of hard to find stuff early
Intergraph
workstations. Clipper based, and pre-clipper (were they VAX?) Intergraph
systems.
The early big servers were VAX based. In fact, they were mostly just
rebadged. RCS/RI has an Intergraph VAX 8550. It has some really strange
custom hardware in the disk controllers - something about these things
could do searches thru files on the disks for specific graphics entities
(for CAD) without bothering the processor. Odd.
There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged
Indigo, that's
relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale.
CDC was rebadging IRIS 3000 machines as Cyber 910s.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org