SII ( system integrators inc, not System Industries Inc) produced a big system for Newspaper editing. Could be over 3000 seats. It used Coyote terminals. IIRC, i think it ran the Guardian operating system.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2019, at 09:45, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 9/30/19 8:57 AM, 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. >> 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. > > Jimmy Treybig was a master marketeer. I recall that when his offerings > debuted, he equip a guest with a pair of diagonal cutters and instruct > them to pick a wire, any wire and cut it. > > The system would just keep running. > > The old OnSale auction site that featured some really good deals back in > the 1990s was powered by Tandem. > > https://web.archive.org/web/19980212000633/http://www.onsale.com:80/ > > --Chuck > >
