[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.     
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>.>> 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                                                         
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