[rescue] Re: Tags and previous owners

[Kevin Loch]

I just remembered, the 4/330 had the "this computer is approved for
classified
processing", it was a 17" monitor that had the Suracon19 on it.  It even
had the login prompt burned in.

I also had some "X.25 Multipad" units with "secret service" stickers on
them.

KL

Stephen Dowdy wrote:
> 
> > the FE revealed that the previous listed
> > location was...the CIA.  Not that surprising,
> 
> I've got some monitors with 4"x6" bright blue tags saying
>         "This station not to be use for classified processing"
> or somesuch.
> 
> > My favorite tag was the "Property of Compaq CAE"
> > tag on the GDM-1962 monitor...implying that
> > Compaq used to use Sun boxen for some CAE
> > task (motherboard layout?).
> 
> Actually Compaq Houston had a bungload of Solbourne systems
> (many of which i still have).  They were configured as
>         Series5/500 (desktop 5-slot)
>         16 or 32MB RAM
>         cg30 video
>         GDM-1962
>         Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive
>         (all sporting the "Property of Compaq CAE" badges)
> Pretty low-end boxes (SPARC2 class), probably mostly for remote X display,
> as they also had a lot of high-end Series6 /900 boxes too that could do
> much more crunching.
> 
> Apple computer also had a lot of Solbourne equipment in their CAE group
> as well.
> 
> A Lot of CAE shops use(d) Sun/Solbourne stuff.  I believe the original
> Commodore Amiga was designed on a Sun 3/60.
> 
> It's a testament to Solbourne's systems and OS/MP that it took nearly 5
> years from Solbourne's Chapter 11 for places like Compaq and Apple to
> clear them out for good.
> 
> While it may seem bad for a computer manufacturer to use a competitor's
> system for its design team, it's far worse when you see a
> word-processing/dtp layout program User Manual written in a competitor's
> product! (i'd heard rumors of things like the MS Word manual being written
> in FrameMaker in the early days)
> 
> --stephen
> --
> Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - CS Dept - Univ of Colorado at Boulder
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