Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Sep 23 2025 07:30 am

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF>  I miss the days of Audacious Hardware Design. Give me a MIPS-powered
 pF>  Silicon Graphics box in some fever-dream color, Pee-Wee's
 pF>  playhouse-derived case design, and a kick-ass keyboard. Or a Sun Sparc.
 pF>  Or one of those industrial design looking IBM RS/6000s.

 te> No love for DEC?  Their later Alpha boxes looked pretty slick.

A friend of mine couldn't bear to see a DEC Alpha being tossed out at
work, so he brought it home. It ran NT 3.51 and IIS for way longer than
it should have - but it would not die.

It was sort of a peak-industrial design mid-tower from the early '90s.


 
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