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

[William Enestvedt]

Sergio asked, quite rightly:
>
> Where are you located ?
>
   Johnson & Wales University, in "Downcity" Providence, Rhode Island.
We're a block from the 95/195 split.
   JWU is where Emeril went, among hundreds -- nay, thousands -- of
other chefs. There's a School of Technology, too, and some other
business-related programs, but the Culinary and Hotel Management
programs are still the school's backbone.
   Oh, and no loading dock. :7)
-wde
--
Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI

> ----- 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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