[SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel quite so freaking young anymore!

[Peter L. Wargo]

I just remember how sklow it was - almost as bad as the Prime (running
PRIMOS!) we had to use at RPI my Freshman year for FORTRAN-2 (I started
at RPI, transferred to Clarkson). 

CLUTX was really dog slow.  When I started being the admin on a bunch of
Sun2's, I let fellow students use them to finish programming projects.  I
got in trouble, because they were part of the administrative network...
Sheesh, I thought the school was there for the students...

Ah ,yes... spock.adm.clarskon.edu, and kirk, scotty, etc... For a time, I
had the SMD disk we called "Spock's Brain" - It was a beautiful 120M 8"
SMD disk in the external pedistal. You'd be amazed how many students could
use a 4M 2/120 with 2x72M disks and an external 120M disk... :-) 

-P


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Young wrote:

> I used one of them as well, it was referred to as a firebreather.  Did you
> ever see the CPU board for them?  They were a bunch of NAND chips if I
> remember right (73XX's), with a few other chips for logic.  I remember it
> ran about as fast as a 386 or so in it's final config.  It was replaced with
> four SS1+'s and a large old sun 3 for a server.

> > No, Gould.  We had a powernode at Clarkson U, the net name was CLUTX.  We
> called
> > it the "electronic chicken."