[SPAM(date)] Re: PS/2 webserver

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Liam Proven wrote:
>>> M95, eh? That's quite a modern one, isn't it - a 486 or even a Pentium?
>> It's an AMD K6-2, believe it or not.  I have another mod 95 as a print
>> server.  I chose it because it has two parallel ports on the
>> motherboard.  I could probably switch to something that uses less juice,
>> but it's been so freakin' rock-solid that I don't feel I should screw
>> with it.  It's running four printers.  Two parallel, one serial and one
>> SCSI.
> 
> Wow!
> 
> A SCSI *printer*?! What on Earth is that?

It's a continuous-tone dye-sub photo printer.  And the serial one is 
actually a pen-plotter, but I count it as a printer.

>>> I am considering trying to put my old Model 80-A21 - once the LAN
>>> server on my home net -  on the Web as a webserver. I like the idea of
>>> a webserver that is significantly older than the Web itself. :-)
>> I'd consider an 8580-Axx newish.  It has *gasp* CACHE!
> 
> :¬) Indeed. Runs Windows NT 3.51 SP5 really well for its age, too.
> 
> But AFAIK, it's contemporaneous with the other Model 80s, as part of
> the original range.

It actually came out about a year and a half later.  Mid-1989?

> IIRC:
> 30 - slimline desktop 8086 (ISA, MCGA)
> 50 - desktop 286
> 60 - tower 286
> 70 - desktop 386
> 80 - desktop 386
        ^^^^^^^^^^^
I assume this was supposed to read "tower 386".

>> I have a video editing workstation built out of an 8550.  A whole 10MHz!!!
> 
> [Boggle]
> 
>> I've collected microchannel hardware for a number of years.
> 
> I don't have the space, but it was the state of the art when I started
> my first job & I still have great affection for it. The only things
> I've seen which rival it for build quality are the PowerMac G5s and
> later.

You should at least pick up one of the last-generation microchannel 
RS/6000s.  Some of them can still be considered reasonably quick today.

Peace...  Sridhar