24 May
1999
24 May
'99
8:21 p.m.
Hey, are these Apollos the ones with the *GIANT* SMD disk units?
The ones I saw were *HUGE* 9" CDC's that had been refurbed by
Seagate! They were mounted in a big tray (kinda like a SABRE,
but bigger), with a powersupply, and some controller electronix.
This whole mess was about a foot square, by maybe 2 feet deep.
DOes that sound like it?
On Mon, 24 May 1999 23:00:55 -0400 (EDT) "R. Stricklin (kjaeros)"
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, James Willing wrote:
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Anyone care to offer any insights? And... anyone
care to offer it a
home???
(I'm just NOT sure I'm ready to branch
down the Apollo line...)
I can offer insights, if you prod me with specific questions. Or
alternately adopt it if it comes to that.
And perhaps even a tour thru the 'Garage'
for those with even more
of an
'Indiana Jones' bent...
I could be interested depending on scheduling...
ok
r.
25 May
25 May
5:31 a.m.
On Tue, 25 May 1999 jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote:
Hey, are these Apollos the ones with the *GIANT* SMD
disk units?
The ones I saw were *HUGE* 9" CDC's that had been refurbed by
Seagate! They were mounted in a big tray (kinda like a SABRE,
but bigger), with a powersupply, and some controller electronix.
This whole mess was about a foot square, by maybe 2 feet deep.
DOes that sound like it?
Yep, that is pretty close to the truth... But what can I DO with it? B^}
-jim
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6:50 a.m.
As I remember the DSP-90 was a rockin' machine for its time...the
'king of servers' machine. Mentor Graphics had a bunch of these sitting
in a room with LOTS of Air Conditioning in it...to act as a simulation
farm for their logic simulation software. As I remember...I think that
the machine used all ECL logic for the CPU. It sucked up a lot of juice,
and made a lot of heat.
I seem to remember, but not completely sure, that the CPU was essentially
an ECL implementation of a 68000...a comparatively very fast 68000.
It should be preserved if possible...Apollos in general *could* have been
the engineering workstation of choice had Apollo not made some silly
'closed architecture' blunders. Their OS and Network environment has
solid features that today are still not real solid in the Unix/NT worlds.
Rick Bensene
8:53 a.m.
As I remember the DSP-90 was a rockin' machine for
its time...the
'king of servers' machine. Mentor Graphics had a bunch of these sitting
in a room with LOTS of Air Conditioning in it...to act as a simulation
farm for their logic simulation software. As I remember...I think that
the machine used all ECL logic for the CPU. It sucked up a lot of juice,
and made a lot of heat.
I seem to remember, but not completely sure, that the CPU was essentially
an ECL implementation of a 68000...a comparatively very fast 68000.
It should be preserved if possible...Apollos in general *could* have been
the engineering workstation of choice had Apollo not made some silly
'closed architecture' blunders. Their OS and Network environment has
solid features that today are still not real solid in the Unix/NT worlds.
Rick Bensene
Apollo also OEM'd Alliant Computer's FX/8 and FX/1 68020 looking multiple
processor mini-Super. These things had Vector opcodes like a Cray
and ran a BSD looking Unix called Concentrix. AT&T also used 'em
at Bell Labs and Morgan Stanly used 'em on Wall Street.
Slick box with up to 8 cpu's and a number of 68010 or 68020 front end
processors on Multibus or VME bus.
(I worked for Alliant for about 8 months).
Bill
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