[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Dave McGuire]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 4:58pm, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2003, at 2:26 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:21:35PM -0500, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
>>> Not to mention that, even during my last year (1998?), they had Sparc
>>> 10's (SM41/SM51) in the labs.  And, you had to pay for print-outs.
>>> Needless to say, I did my projects elsewhere.
>>
>> Up until I believe it was 2001 or 2002 Millersville had their CS
>> students doing most of their work on IPXs.  I think it may have been 
>> the
>> fall of 2001.
>>
> We did a lot of our engineering work on Sparcstation Classics.  Maple V 
> and such.  Our university was a big Sun school.  At the time I was 
> considering taking a loan out to get an Ultra 1 170 E for 6G's instead 
> of the 12-14 list price... because of our discount... I'm glad I didn't 
> ... the one semester I was at MD instead of my school (Univ of DE), 
> they had lots of NeXT black hardware in WAM labs.  Man I wish I had 
> been around to salvage those.

   I was.  I got about 50 of them.  A bunch from the Pentagon too.

    -Dave