[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Aug 2 10:11:43 CDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:37:52AM -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Still '486 for the most part, 12 years ago.  Pentiums were just coming out.
> I still have two DEC Pentium 60 boxes from early 1993:
> 	P-60 (with FP error)
> 	72 MB RAM (72-pin FPM parity)
> 	EISA bus
> 	Adaptec SCSI card
> 	1 - 1 GB SCSI drive (FH 5.25")
> 	3COM 10Base2 NIC
> 	basic VGA
> 	16 serial ports
> 	massive case
> 	SCO Unix
        ^^^^^^^^
> 	$15,000
> Those two machines still run fine, BTW.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ACK PHBBTTTT!
ERRDOESNOTCOMPUTE :)

(seriously, I saw some serious uptime on SCO boxes back in the day, circa
'94-98 or so.  Tons of places would have a Pentium or 486 in the back with
serial terminals hanging off it..)

Bill

-- 
bill bradford
austin texas



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