[rescue] Dead Sequent walking! (was "quad 486" in Feb. 2003)

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Where are you located ?

Cheers
Sergio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Enestvedt" <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: [rescue] Dead Sequent walking! (was "quad 486" in Feb. 2003)


> Good afternoon;
>    It's been a year, and once again I've been asked to move out old
> Sequent out of the Data Center -- and this time they mean it. I've been
> told to get it out, or it goes in a dumpster!
>    Last time I asked abouit this, waay back in February of 2003, some
> 'Listas wrote the following cascade of messages:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koyote [koyote at koyote.cx]
> > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] quad 486
> >
> > vance at neurotica.com writes:
> > > Are you kidding?  I'd love to run that.
> > >
> > > Peace...  Sridhar
> >
> > Seconded. that would be a great frontspiece to my home-as-museum ;)
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > > >
> > > > William Enestvedt wrote:
> > > > >    Did Sequent build anything with 486 CPUs or just
> > > > > 386s? (We have a Sequent system with 386s that just
> > > > > got powered down a few months ago, and I haven't
> > > > > yet been told what to do with it by Higher Management.)
> > > > >
> >
>    So, did you mean it, any of you?  :7)
>    I think they'll want to drives pulled & wiped, unfortunately [they're
> chock full of FERPA-regulated data fer chrissakes, so it's worth my job
> to do it] but I can probably let you have the mounting hardware the
> drives were on. And I have all the manuals, and all the media, and lots
> of spare _crap_ in cardboard boxes under my desk. And maybe even a
> couple of spare drives. :7) (Wait, one spare drive, one tape drive, I
> guess. But who knows what else I've got.)
>    I have the original delivery manifest here from mid-1993, which says
> that it's a Sequent S2000/250. There's an expansion cabinet with a 525MB
> QIC drive, and then another cabinet with four of its six (seven?) drives
> bays filled with 2GB and 4GB disks. I also see a board with 96MB memory,
> and another one which reads "BOARD-60BM  ETCH  4"; it has the VME
> backplane, EtherNet, and what looks like a 950W PSU!
>    Another invoice from 1995 looks like there's an additional 96 MB
> memory, too.
>    If anyone can give me a hint on the location of the CPUs' specs, I'll
> get those, too. The top of the delivery manifest says it's Product
> Number 250-1821-V1, whivh is a "S2000/250 DUAL CPU, 64MB, 662MB" [the
> latter referring to one hard drive]." The manifest also lists one item
> as "BOARD-E200 WO/FPA" and Part number PRO-9085-01 -- is that an 85 MHz
> CPU?
>    This beast ran Oracle on Dynix until, oh, late 2002.
>    So...any takers? This time I really mean it: you guys, or the
> dumpster. (I might scavenge the magnets from the hard drives first,
> though, as I bet they're strong enough to *crush* those noisy, nasty
> little farty sportscars that drive down my quiet street each night.
> Mwahahaha!)
> -wde
> P.S. It also has a nice terminal that I want to keep, but which I would
> throw in if it seals the deal. :7)
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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