30 Sep
2019
30 Sep
'19
12:27 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 09/29/2019 11:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
I remember hearing that the credit/debit card database we were talking
to was a Royal Bank Tandem in Toronto when I was first involved
with Point of Sale protocols.
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.
Indeed.
Jon
Diane
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