11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
10:23 a.m.
On 11/09/2007, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
:?) Indeed. Runs Windows NT 3.51 SP5 really well for its age, too.
But AFAIK, it's contemporaneous with the other Model 80s, as part of
the original range.
It actually came out about a year and a half later. Mid-1989?
Oh really? I didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me!
I did. My apologies; I screwed up when reformatting from a paragraph to a list.
You should at least pick up one of the last-generation microchannel
RS/6000s. Some of them can still be considered reasonably quick today.
Strangely tempting... But I need to get rid of about half a dozen old
PCs and Macs first.
Anyone in SE England want a free 68k Mac? Got 1 or 2 PowerPCs, too.
I'll fix it up & put a clean install of the OS on first...
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Liam Proven wrote:
Wow!
A SCSI *printer*?! What on Earth is that?
It's a continuous-tone dye-sub photo printer. And the serial one is
actually a pen-plotter, but I count it as a printer.
Cool!
M95, eh? That's quite a modern one, isn't it -
a 486 or even a Pentium?
It's an AMD K6-2, believe it or not. I have another
mod 95 as a print
server. I chose it because it has two parallel ports on the
motherboard. I could probably switch to something that uses less juice,
but it's been so freakin' rock-solid that I don't feel I should screw
with it. It's running four printers. Two parallel, one serial and one
SCSI. I am
considering trying to put my old Model 80-A21 - once the LAN
server on my home net - on the Web as a webserver. I like the idea of
a webserver that is significantly older than the Web itself. :-)
I'd consider
an 8580-Axx newish. It has *gasp* CACHE! IIRC:
30 - slimline desktop 8086 (ISA, MCGA)
50 - desktop 286
60 - tower 286
70 - desktop 386
80 - desktop 386
^^^^^^^^^^^
I assume this was supposed to read "tower 386". I have a video editing workstation built out of an
8550. A whole 10MHz!!!
[Boggle]
I've collected microchannel hardware for a
number of years.
I don't have the space, but it was the state of the art when I started
my first job & I still have great affection for it. The only things
I've seen which rival it for build quality are the PowerMac G5s and
later.