Server space, SGI O2 drive sled, DEC 3000-300x (Pelican+)

[Adrian Graham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
> Sent: 05 April 2005 23:47
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Server space, SGI O2 drive sled, DEC 3000-300x (Pelican+)
> 
> Somewhere around Tru64 V5.0 support was dropped for the 
> Turbochannel graphics cards.

Ah!
 
> I personally wouldn't describe a 3000-300LX as "quite 
> speedy", I have one somewhere, and used it as a VMS server 
> for quite a while.  OTOH, it uses 72-pin True Parity SIMM's, 
> rather than something proprietary, so it isn't a bad system.

Compared to what I was using at the time it was very speedy indeed :) I have
good memories of the 3000-300LX purely because that was the machine I taught
myself OSF/1 on over the space of 5 weekends because the bloke who HAD been
looking after these machines upped and left without much warning. Because of
that I subjected myself to many DECstations and Ultrix 4.x stuff purely
because I could, and that helped me with many things I still use today on
the unix front.

cheers

a