AT&T 3B20D
Gary L Dare
gld at CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU
Sat Jun 17 04:50:45 AEST 1989
In article <226 at cbnewsd.ATT.COM> J. P. Schoonover wrote:
>
>I don't know that AT&T has tried to sell the 3B20D as a general purpose
>mini, but I wouldn't recommend using it that way. It's too old a machine.
I don't know if AT&T tried to *market* them as such, but they have been
donating these machines to various universities including Columbia. We
received three, but they were decommissioned after two years because
their service contracts were *prohibitive* and the System V OS version
was an old, beta - couldn't afford new code, hard to find a system
manager full-time, no NFS so we could use them as communications hubs
(I was very enthusiastic about them, as you can tell). A shame.
I don't know how many of the recipients have their systems running and
happy. Is anyone out there part of the 3B20 user group, U3G??
gld
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