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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NCR *nix boxes?
Message-ID: <656@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 17:10:28 GMT
References: <22897@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <22897@adm.BRL.MIL> ernie@uncle.calvin.edu (Ernest D. Brouwer) writes:
>
>I may be consulting for a firm that says they have a NCR brand 68000 based
>Unix box that is giving them trouble and has been orphaned by NCR (that's
>why they called me).  I haven't seen it yet so I haven't committed to 
>anything.  Anyone out there have an idea what I am getting myself into?
>Anyone out there successfully moved from this box to another?  Anyone out
>there using one of these boxes?  Are these questions to general?

You are probably refering to a member of the NCR Tower family.  If it really
is a 68000 then it is probably a Tower/XP.  It's rather outdated and
slow but my experience is that the Unix is rather typical with no
surprises.  I don't see that you're in for a bad time unless the
customer is have some kind of hardware problem.

-- 
Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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