A sight from the dawn of my career; we had some of these at the first dial-up ISP I worked at as a dirtbag teenager. Getting to touch them was above my pay grade at the time, though.
I’m pretty sure they were of the MIPS variety, they were contemporaneous with the cube models, which I think we had one or two of as well. This would have been around 1997.
When I read about 10 Mbit Ethernet being considered adequate for a file server, I’m so glad I live in the future. When I was at school, we had a 4 Mbit Token Ring network used for 20 machines to netboot from a file server, and that often involved 10-minute boot times.
A sight from the dawn of my career; we had some of these at the first dial-up ISP I worked at as a dirtbag teenager. Getting to touch them was above my pay grade at the time, though.
Which ones, the x86 or the MIPS variety?
I’m pretty sure they were of the MIPS variety, they were contemporaneous with the cube models, which I think we had one or two of as well. This would have been around 1997.
When I read about 10 Mbit Ethernet being considered adequate for a file server, I’m so glad I live in the future. When I was at school, we had a 4 Mbit Token Ring network used for 20 machines to netboot from a file server, and that often involved 10-minute boot times.