On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 09/29/2019 11:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: > > Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep > > finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out of a basement, along > > with a few boxes of docs, 9-track tapes and random odd and ends: > > > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/m2N7RKN3JXcmVTUC8 > > > > There's such as thing as "so obscure that no one knows/cares about > > it". I've had those before. Do I have another? It sure is heavy. > > > > -j > > > Tandem was hot stuff back in the 1980's. These appear to be > the last gasp of their technology.
I remember hearing that the credit/debit card database we were talking to was a Royal Bank Tandem in Toronto when I was first involved with Point of Sale protocols. > Once you had fast networking between processors, the whole > Tandem concept became pretty easy to do on a few ordinary > processors, without special hardware. So, their whole > reason for being became moot. Indeed. > > Jon Diane -- - [email protected] [email protected] http://www.db.net/~db
