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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: uNIX on tired iron FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.120818.2522@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 12:08:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.150111.276@lrc.edu: <id.WKWS.O4A@ferranti.com> <erd.03io@kumiss.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Private Computer, Totowa NJ
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- In article <erd.03io@kumiss.cmhnet.org:, erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks) writes:
- : In article <id.WKWS.O4A@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- : >Pixar, and whatever other old no-longer-supported uNIX systems let me know.
- : How about a "Perkin-Elmer 7350 Professional" computer? We used one for
- : years at work. I can still get one of those two machines from a consultant
- : to whom it was given as partial payment. The unit has a graphics monitor
- : with buttons (for a menuing system), dual 8Mhz 68000 (to facilitate
- : instruction restart on page fault), dual half-height 5.25" floppy drives
- : and a SASI/ST506 disk combo. The machine runs System III. The consultant
- : wants <$400 for it. I am not sure I want go pick it up because it is
- : old and not supported. The original disks and a full set of manuals are
- : available.
-
- Personally I would not get that beast. We had constant problems with disk
- failures where it would loose a block, forcing a complete system format and
- rebuild. Even though the machine was advertised as a multiuser system with
- five simultanous users, if anyone did anything more intensive than vi, it
- in essence became single user until that process was done. (Its memory was
- so small that everything swapped out whenever something like awk, and
- obliterated the machine on 'cc'). The five user limit was really that
- five people could sign on at the same time. *MAYBE* I would get the
- 7350A, which had an almost decent amount of memory.
-
- --
- Kenneth Ng
- Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.
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