From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 16 13:34:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C850D14DA3 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA12541; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:33:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199907162033.WAA12541@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Michael Elbel Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IA64 Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:57:57 +0200." <19990716132849.A36231@consol.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:33:44 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org NOTE: I don't subscribe to -chat, so Cc me. Michael Elbel writes: > > PCS never managed to sell any substantial number of boxes. > IIRC the only company that bought larger numbers was Hartmann & Braun. Thay used them as front-ends for a process control system. I think we (Compaq Enterprise Engineering Center) still have a maintenance contract with them. >Yeah I remember that there was somebody like Convex (was it Convex, Gary) >who were interested in OEMing the Fireboxes as workstation type boxes >together with their own multiprocessor i860 machines. > I can't remeber. I was at a show once where I saw some Taiwanese or Koreans who had an i860-based box. Nothing ever came of it either. >>> I believe that Gary Jennejohn still uses one of the beasts as an X >>> terminal. > >>Cool. Does anybody have one for sale? :-) > I have several of them here in Munich. I also have a whole slew of the 50 MHz i860XPs, the multiprocessor capable version, which were never used. They were trashed just recently (left over from PCS days). I have no idea who asked about buying one of these things, since Michael seems to have deleted that. Anyway, you pay the shipping and you can have all the Fireboxes which I have (3), including the Sony monitors which go with them. The graphics card was designed to work with the Sony, although a modern Multi-Sync monitor would probably work also. > It only does 60 Hz < --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message