[SunRescue] Real ISP -Intergraphs!
Martin Wedel
xsintrk at xsintrk.net
Mon Feb 28 12:30:50 CST 2000
My roomate has a pair of Intergraph 2000's. Nifty looking, slow as
dirt.
How much would you want for a copy of CLIX?
Also, a correction, We run OpenBSD on my Sparc processor-based
systems, and NOT the Motorola system. That runs NetBSD I believe.
: )
>.>> I have just noticed a processor manual for a clipper on a shelf
above
>.>> my desk... from before my time.
>.>>
>.>> Any ideas what one of these may have been installed in?
>.>
>.> An Integraph workstation. They ran a UNIX-ish OS called CLIX.
[gag]
>.>
>.> They were decent little workstations if you were running CAD
software.
>.>Otherwise, take my advice and pick up heroin or something. It's
better
>.>for
>.>you than Intergraph workstations. Quite literally, I'm sure that
the
>.>stress
>.>from such an environment is worse on you that most street chem's.
*LOL*
>.>
>.> I have to admit that the strangest thing about the systems would
>.>either be their monitor connector(a 7-coax version of the 13w3; I'm
>.>unfamiliar
>.>with this sort, could a EE out there gimme a hand with the proper
name?)
>.>or
>.>their keyboard. The keyboard had, if I recall correctly, four rows
of
>.>supplemental keys above the usual QWERTY/F-keys.
>.>
>.> The workstation's that I've been around have always been of the
>.>InterPro line, and came in either a desktop(about like a dual
height
>.>pizza box in size), or a deskside(a 4/260 would be the best example
of
>.>the chassis that comes to mind). The Clippers always had SCSI and
>.>Ethernet
>.>to the best of my knowledge.
>.>
>.> Mind you, the systems previous to the Clipper-era were damned
>.>impressive as far as their appearance goes. *grin* One
workstation
>.>that I've seen quite a number of in my time happens to be a
repackaged
>.>VAX 8350. Now *THAT* is a deskside workstation!
>.>
>.> I've got access to a number of copies of CLIX, tablets for
InterPro's,
>.>etc, etc. should anyone be looking for something, send word, as
one of
>.>Intergraph's higher-up's(seventies to about ninety) is a personal
friend
>.>and always loves to discuss those bastard workstations with anyone
that
>.>is far gone enough to be interested. *grin*
>.>
>.> Does anyone else know of a workstation that contained a Clipper?
>.>
>.> I'm trying to remember if Fairchild made a synthesizer/music
>.>workstation. That might sound quite odd, but I seem to remember
such
>.>a thing. Went for about $30,000, had a light pen, etc, etc.
>.>
>.>
>.> -Kent Rankin
>.>
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-Martin Wedel
webmaster, XsinTRK.net
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