30 Sep
2019
30 Sep
'19
8:57 a.m.
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.
Jon