Free NCR tower in Miami FL. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Dec 1999

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:35:04 -0000 Julian Richardson
&lt;JRichardson(a)softwright.co.uk&gt; writes:
...
  Unisys also made the same machines at one point but
with different
 badges on the front apparently, plus NCR had 'internal' model 
 numbers (I guess that's what 1632 is!). 
Okay, so now I have to go into the basement, and re-read the serial
plate.  NCR's numbering scheme is *not* intuitive.

...
  I've hooked one of these things up to a 10Mbps LAN
before along with 
 a Linux box and run remote X programs and stuff, so they do talk 
 TCP/IP quite happily.  
I think that mostly applies to the '020 machines and higher.  When I
first got my machine, I was told that it didn't really support
TCP/IP.

...
 Not sure about the MMU - I think by the time things
had
 progressed to the 68030 the MMU was built in?? (I easily could be 
 wrong there; aside from the Amiga 500 I haven't had much dealing with 
 68xxx chips). 
I'm pretty sure that's the case.  The 68010 was kinda like the 
80286-- some memory management was there, but it was considered
kinda brain-dead.  The 68020 was the real breakthrough.  Operating
systems for the 680x0 really took off after that.

...
  The system boards on these things are huge though -
something like 
 1x4 feet if I remember correctly.  
That's about right.  I have a complete set of spares in my closet.
The system board is *huge*.

...
  My system had sat idle for a while and
 didn't boot the last time I tried it about a year ago; I'm hoping 
 that's something simple rather than a crack in one of the boards 
 somewhere. 
Now you've got me worried.  I really ought to take time to fire 
up the thing.

Jeff
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