19 Dec
2001
19 Dec
'01
1:13 p.m.
> My wife recently got a job at a bridal retail
chain that uses NCR 386/486
> UNIX for the POS terminals and financial matters relating to the operation
> of the store.
>
> It's running on what appears to be an NCR 386 (or 486?) with a tape backup,
> and services four WYSE terminals and a printer. Seems to be a standard
> setup for the stores in this chain.
application that used to run on a NCR unix box (aka
UNISYS machine) (and a
mini from NCR,
which I cant seem to remember the name) to the 486-based NCR
unix machine. Great stuff then! In fact, the NCR unix is just a repackaging
Wow! This reminds me of a machine i've got sitting in storage for me in
scotland - must remember to collect it sometime... Apparently it's a
4-way 486 SMP box with passive backplane, which ran NCR UNIX. Came out
of bank though, hard disks had to be physically trashed - the whole 2
cabinets of SCSI disks all were put thru with a hammer...