On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Paul Berger wrote:
He converted it from a system pretty much as you
describe at it's peak
it consited of 5 novell severs with a total of 40+ hard drives and over
100 PCs (bare motherboards actually) networked together in racks made ot
of plywood with slots cut in them to slide the motherboards into. It
was an interesting artitechture and the main reason it was as scaleable
as it was.
Wow! That's really cool. Did they ever document it, like with pictures
and stuff? That deserves preservation in some computer history archive.
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