rarest computers. was: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 20:40, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Some of my favorite "rarer" machines are my General Automation
> > SPC-16/40 and /45 (which are neither complete nor functional right
> > now ):  It was a machine targeted where the Data General Nova was
> > targeted (a general purpose 16bit machine in the early 70s).
>
> Nice.  You're the only one I know of that has these.  I have some
> Naked Mini's and another model that escapes me currently.

Unfortunately, one of Purdue's custodial staff decided that the 
frontpanel for the /45 which I placed between the trashbin and rack was 
supposed to be thrown out.  Argh!  At least they're electically (and 
physically) interchangable between the two models.  Fabricating a new 
one is somewhere on my to-do list, under getting my 11/750 up since 
I've now got a RM03, checking out the Multimax (and getting pictures up 
on my website), moving my webserver to a new box, so it can be a 
bitsavers mirror, and unpacking from my move to a new house (paying 
rent to a friend for sharing the space) that I finished moving over a 
week ago.

> > Encore Multimax - a massively SMP UNIX box with NS32332s (or
> > 32232's?) that went up to 40 processors and 128MB of memory in the
> > late 80s, and ran a Mach-based Unix.  I've not yet gotten that up
> > and running, but I've got install tapes and documentation for it
> > that the SPC-16s don't.
>
> Very nice!

:)  Goes well with my(+friends) IBM SP, NCR Worldmark 5100 node (2 
separate 32-Way Microchannel-architecture Pentium-PRO boxes in one 
cabinet), and 16xR4400 and 8xR10k SGI Challenge XLs.  None quite old 
enough to be classic, but all quite interesting (massively MP) 
machines. :)  

Pat
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