[rescue] Today's rescue and need Wyse keyboard

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Sat Mar 2 12:40:38 CST 2002


> The Storage Express looks like a late model ISA/PCI 486 in a fancy case
> with a four line front panel LCD and an 8mm drive. I know from Intel's
> site that this stuff was end-of-lifed in 1997 but is the 486-based
> Express usable for anything... like NetBSD, perhaps? It has IDE and
> Floppy connectors on the motherboard and an ISA video card. The other
> cards in it are a PCI SCSI and, naturally, an Intel 82557 NIC. I saved
> it for the 8mm tape but I wouldn't mind using the whole thing.

It would probably make a nice backup server (since thats what it was).
There were different OS loads for them from the manufacturer, but most of
them ran Novell Netware and Cheyenne ARCServer.

You could stick NetBSD/i386 and AMANDA on it and have a decent backup
engine.

> Also saved an empty Intel SCSI chassis with two full-size 5.25" bays, one
> open (probably held a DLT) and a Storage Express II with a 15/30 DLT and
> the other bay empty but with the plates.



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