[rescue] tape drive with no SCSI

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:52, Dunbar, Brian wrote:
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com]
> check this out.  The Netra X1 is a
> 400MHz UltraSPARC-IIe in a 1U rackmount chassis with two 10/100
> reefernet interfaces, and it ships with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB
> [crappy IDE] disk...for $1000.00.  My application is almost entirely
> memory-based so the IDE doesn't bother me all that much, aside from
> the purism issue.<<<<
> 
> I stopped thinking about buying ANY new equipment until June of next year
> (thank YOU Mr. Recession) but my senior designer was pissing and moaning
> because 'we' took away her Ultra 10 two years ago and all she could do this
> afternoon was watch NT shit Dr. Watson errors when all she WANTED to do was
> to X into her old Ultra 10 and run her library tool ....
> 
> Would a Netra be a good choice for graphics/memory intensive apps?  I could
> almost talk them into spending 1k (plus a monitor) ...

Wouldn't a Blade 100 make more sense?  They're designed as workstations,
after all...
	Greg