4 Jun
2016
4 Jun
'16
8:43 a.m.
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Swift Griggs once
stated:
Weren't those old NCR systems MCA-bus? I remember having ... I think it
was called a System 3300 ... I used to have one way back in the day and I
remember the onboard SCSI as well - unfortunately not supported by MCA
Linux at the time, much to my consternation :| Don't recall if it was a
486 machine or maybe a 386? I'm sure there were lots of variants.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, TeoZ wrote:
Sounds somewhat similar to the server (email and web, on the public
Internet co-located) I used up through 2004-5. It was an NCR-3230 system
and was a 486. I used a similar unit at home as a router (fun times getting
three network cards working on the thing).
http://www.flummux.org/images/tower/index.html
-spc (I think I had that for five, six years. And the few times I had to
reboot it was due to moving it, or someone tripping over the power
cord. It was a robust little box.)
The ultimate gaming 486 would have an EISA+VLB
motherboard.
Yes, I would agree on that. However, since I'm mostly interested in
running older Unix variants and DOS, games aren't at the top of my value
system. Don't get me wrong, I love games, and I'd surely have a few loaded
with DOS. However, I'm looking for something special. I have this foggy
memory of a small, white, NEC (or maybe it was NCR, or or or... crap. I
just can't remember) slimline desktop machine that was a 486 and had a
SCSI2 interface right on the mobo and had an external SCSI2 header, too. I
know it had two or three expansion slots, but I didn't get to pop open the
box to look at what kind of slots they were. I've been google image
searching for a while trying to find it again. I saw them while doing some
contract job back in the 90's. The green LED on a SCSI terminator caught
my eye (as well as the fact that I liked the case design).