Tandem Minicomputers

[Diane Bruce]

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:
> > 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.

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.

> 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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