[rescue] Worst rescue [was MY coolest rescue ever, nCUBE2]

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I bought a Sun3/160 w 16 or 32MB RAM in 7 foot cabinet.

On top:  9 track tape drive.  In the middle: VME card cage.  On the bottom:
2 or 3 14" Eagle SMD drives plus an extra one or two - total giggage was
1.7GB I think, may have been 1.3.

Paid about $300 or $500 for it in 1994.  It came with the ALM-2 serial
board(s) as well.

I never ended up using it, and because I moved to Denver CO for a few
years, it ended up getting dumpstered !  I wasn't able to boot it after I
screwed up /vmunix (didn't have tapes for it and this was before netbsd
supported it) - learning not to FTP things into / while logged in as root
was a worthwhile lesson, but certainly an expensive one!

I have done better in buying hardware since...most of the time.




Cordially
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Patrick Giagnocavo
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