30 Sep
2019
30 Sep
'19
10:44 a.m.
SII ( system integrators inc, not System Industries Inc) produced a big system for
Newspaper editing. Could be over 3000 seats. It used Coyote terminals. IIRC, i think it
ran the Guardian operating system.
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On Sep 30, 2019, at 09:45, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 9/30/19 8:57 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Jimmy Treybig was a master marketeer. I recall that when his offerings
debuted, he equip a guest with a pair of diagonal cutters and instruct
them to pick a wire, any wire and cut it.
The system would just keep running.
The old OnSale auction site that featured some really good deals back in
the 1990s was powered by Tandem.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980212000633/http://www.onsale.com:80/
--Chuck
On 09/29/2019 11:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk
wrote:
Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep
finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out of a basement, along
with a few boxes of docs, 9-track tapes and random odd and ends:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/m2N7RKN3JXcmVTUC8
There's such as thing as "so obscure that no one knows/cares about
it". I've had those before. Do I have another? It sure is heavy.
-j
Tandem was hot stuff back in the 1980's. These appear to be the last
gasp of their technology.
Once you had fast networking between processors, the whole Tandem
concept became pretty easy to do on a few ordinary processors, without
special hardware. So, their whole reason for being became moot.