3 Jul
2002
3 Jul
'02
5:16 a.m.
Definiatley NCR. I saw a couple at the UofM property disposition a year ago.
Those had 486 boards in them as I recall. If anyone needs power supplies
grab one of these, the entire bottom half is full of power supplies and
fans.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: big IBM on Ebay??
--- g(a)kurico.com wrote:
Looks like an AT&T logo on the front.
Probably an NCR if it has MCA
slots.
George
On 3 Jul 2002 at 2:37, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> Don't really know what it is, but it claims to have MCA slots??
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2036499330
ISTR "3555" is a model of NCR box. We used them when I was at Lucent
(they were bought before AT&T "trivested" into AT&T, NCR and Lucent).
They typically run SYSVr4, but I was told that you _could_ boot them
to DOS and play DOOM on them (I didn't ask ;-)
Big ones like that were MCA. Newer NCR servers were 1/3 the size and
PCI. I think most of ours were quad Pentium-90 boxes.
The thing of it is, I was brought into the group because they wanted to
move to Sun SPARC hardware and Solaris and all of their expertise was
with NCR (and older) UNIX platforms. I think when I left, they were
over 50% Sun (in the data center our group ran.
OK boxes, but nothing special unless you have a Dayton, OH, fetish (NCR
headquarters).
-ethan
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