[SunRescue] Apple Network Server

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legodude at home.net writes:

>Yup. They're big, decently fast and useful, have the neat Apple logo on 
>them. They're rare, PPC, AIX, etc. I suppose I could get a plain Power/
>PPC IBM box to run AIX but it wouldn't be as cool. I could put a Sun 

I think a big rack-mount RS/6000 out-cools the ANS, though the ANS
definately wins on obscurity points.

>logo on it and then really confuse people. "Hey phil, look at my new 
>mac" It's easily the coolest product apple ever made, I just have no 
>idea where to get something like this. 

Rebadging isn't that rare. CDC used to sell rebadged SGIs. Lots of
computers in the 70s were really PDP-11s under the skins. (Pre-clipper
Intergraph workstations, etc. (Ok, maybe not "lots".))

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