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From: corey@lod.com (Corey Lindsly)
Subject: [TUHS] ATT 3b2
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:05:14 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221050514.DCE6E5D85F@lod.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc50b0abdcf6b048b5529f34287f8bf8@plan9.bell-labs.com>


> The 3B2 was not the same machine as the one in 5ESS, which
> was/is the 3B20D, a fairly large duplexed machine (two processors
> that mutually checked each other).  The 3B2 was a desktop.
> The 3B20D wasn't sold commercially, as far as I know.  There
> was a 3B20S (multi-cabinet) that at least nominally
> was commercially available.

In '93 or '94 I responded to an advertisement by
Temple University (Philadelphia) that they were
giving away for free - U haul - a working 3B20S
system. Figuring it was simply a slightly bigger 
brother of the 3B2, I arranged to pick it up and
drove out there. 

Imagine my dismay when I discovered it to consist
of four refrigerator-sized cabinets, several
washing-machine disk units, and boxes of spare
parts. Alas, no way that was all going to fit
in my little apartment, not to mention the power
requirements, so I had to turn it down. I hope
they eventually found a good home for it..

Regards,

---corey





  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21  4:16 [TUHS] " dmr
2006-02-21  5:05 ` Corey Lindsly [this message]
2006-02-21  6:28 ` [TUHS] " Carl Lowenstein
2006-02-21  6:58 ` Michael Davidson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-20 17:43 Stuart, Jon
2006-03-02 16:03 ` Kees Stravers

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