27 Nov
2014
27 Nov
'14
7:57 a.m.
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran AIX and were pretty large machines.
I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no avail. Considering they were only
produced for a year should i assume that they have all be crushed?
27 Nov
27 Nov
8:27 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:57:34AM -0500, Alex McWhirter wrote:
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran
AIX and were pretty large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no
avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume that they have all
be crushed?
I saw one in the flesh (metal?) about a decade ago, someone in the local
Unix group owned it. Haven't since one then.
--
Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/
8:35 a.m.
Only in pictures, never in the flesh. I am pretty sure at least a few of
them made it into private collections at one point... didn't the
Applefritter guy have one?
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Alex McWhirter <
alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran
AIX and were pretty
large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no
avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume that
they have all be crushed?
8:39 a.m.
We had one kicking around ANS (the backbone people) while I was there
in the late 1990s, but I never used it - it belonged to a different
department. I do not know what happened to it.
Good luck trying to pry one out of an Apple collector!
--
Will
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Alex McWhirter
<alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran
AIX and were pretty large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no
avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume that they have all
be crushed?
8:54 a.m.
On 11/27/14 8:39 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
We had one kicking around ANS (the backbone people)
while I was there
in the late 1990s, but I never used it - it belonged to a different
department. I do not know what happened to it.
Good luck trying to pry one out of an Apple collector!
I know someone was talking at some point about getting one, and getting the
rom set that would let you boot MacOS on it (which I never even saw a copy
of). I only ever saw them in the server group development lab. There were all
sorts of weird things going on associated with Shiner, including a port of
portable Netware that never saw the light of day. The plastic "didn't quite
work in a rack" packaging was probably the most stupid thing about it. What
actually made it out the door was a scaled-down version of the original design.
An interesting bit of trivia was one of the main Shiner hardware guys (Dennis Yarak)
brother (Keith) was project lead on the XServe. They almost figured out how rack-mounted
equipment should be packaged on that. Dennis went over to portables and did a bunch of
the work on the G4 powerbooks onward.
10:07 a.m.
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran
AIX and were
pretty large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months
to no avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i
assume that they have all be crushed?
Not in person however in the past few years at least two have come up on eBay for sale at
ungodly prices ($1500 - $2000 AFAIR). So no they are not all crushed but they are pretty
hard to come by.
-Ali
10:46 a.m.
I know that Cameron Kaiser has, or at least had, one or more at home. Is he still on the
list, in thinking about it, I can't remember when I last saw a post from him.
Zane
On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran
AIX and were pretty large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no
avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume that they have all
be crushed?
9:18 p.m.
A fellow over at nekochan has one:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/
/P
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Zane Healy wrote:
I know that Cameron Kaiser has, or at least had, one
or more at home. Is he still on the list, in thinking about it, I can't remember when
I last saw a post from him.
Zane
On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net>
wrote:
This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The
ran AIX and were pretty large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months
to no avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume that they have
all be crushed?
11:41 p.m.
And I now realize I just linked to Cameron Kaiser :) Sorry Zane.
/P
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 06:18:12AM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
A fellow over at nekochan has one:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/
/P
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Zane Healy wrote:
> I know that Cameron Kaiser has, or at least had, one or more at home. Is he still
on the list, in thinking about it, I can't remember when I last saw a post from him.
>
> Zane
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net>
wrote:
>
> > This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran AIX and were pretty large
machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to no avail. Considering they
were only produced for a year should i assume that they have all be crushed?
>
28 Nov
28 Nov
8:46 a.m.
Neat site, thanks for the link. The MkLinux/WGS 9150 page really brings
back some memories. I ran MkLinux on my PM 7200/90 for a long time when I
was in high school... first UNIX implementation I ever had running on my
personally owned equipment! (it took a little longer, living in an all-Mac
household). Still got the original media for it. This was a few years yet
before the tap really started running on the golden age of UNIX workstation
collecting and Sun, DEC, SGI, etc became available to me. I'll never forget
the excitement of running through the install and actually booting up my
own "UNIX" workstation for the first time.
Back about then I actually had the opportunity to pick up a WGS 9150 but
passed on it; I didn't really consider it to be noteworthy at the time. I
did grab the WGS 95 that was sitting next to it, though (and I've still got
it).
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
And I now realize I just linked to Cameron Kaiser :)
Sorry Zane.
/P
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 06:18:12AM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
A fellow over at nekochan has one:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/
/P
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Zane Healy wrote:
> I know that Cameron Kaiser has, or at least had, one or more at home.
Is he
still on the list, in thinking about it, I can't remember when I last
saw a post from him.
>
> Zane
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Alex McWhirter <
alexmcwhirter at
mojovapes.net> wrote:
>
> > This were produced by apple in the mid 90?s. The ran AIX and were
pretty
large machines. I?ve been looking for one for a couple of months to
no avail. Considering they were only produced for a year should i assume
that they have all be crushed?
>
12:14 a.m.
On Nov 27, 2014, at 9:18 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Zane Healy
wrote:
That is the aforementioned Cameron Kaiser.
I also have one.
More than a few are out there.
ok
bear.
--
until further notice
I know that Cameron Kaiser has, or at least had,
one or more at home. Is he still on the list, in thinking about it, I can't remember
when I last saw a post from him.
A fellow over at nekochan has one:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/
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