Those were the Apollo workstations that HP acquired, I believe. Cut my UNIX admin teeth on those running HP-UX. As well as found out what the user reaction is when you inadvertently shut down the primary node in a diskless workstation cluster.[1]
-sc [1] The 9000 series were Motorola 68K based boards in a rectangular chassis. The left "bay" of the chassis was the computer, the right bay was expansion. In our primary node this was a DAT tape drive. When crammed sideways into a small shelf space in some cubicle furniture, it was easy for the inexperienced to miss the fact that the power button for the computer, and the eject button for the drive were both in the upper corner of their respective bay. That certainly wasn't what I expected to happen when I went to change tapes like a good little admin. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computer BLOWS UP with spooler SubSystem App errors On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gene Giannamore <[email protected]> wrote: > ... the 1160 was decent ... Except that it couldn't accept the larger-size 1320 cartridges solely because of a plastic spacer on the door and the coding in the chip. HP wanted people to buy the 1320 for the lower cost per page, but re-used the same print engine in 1160, so they had to come up with artificial means. Jerks. Did I mention that we're not buying HP anymore? This is after 15+ years of me buying *nothing* but HP printers. It takes real talent to destroy that kind of brand loyalty. > My old boss would rate the quality of a printer by weight > and construction. He was right more than 90% of the time. That's not entirely a bad method. For electronic equipment, often the first place a manufacturer starts cutting costs is in frame and such. Big heavy metal and plastic is expensive. So if they've started to cut into that, it means they're decreasing product quality. That's usually a trend that continues. HP's old 9000 series workstations were designed to survive a drop test of (IIRC) 4 feet. *While running*. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
