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From: slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C Slimick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Is the 3b2 dead?, I think so:-(
Summary: Another view of the 3B2
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Date: 6 Jun 90 22:24:58 GMT
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Granted that the 3b2/400 is slow, BUT:

ATT has a policy of donating these little devils
to academic institutions, and I FOR ONE really
appreciate it. We were given a 3B2/400 with 
2M memory, 72 Meg HD, 5 ordinary terminals,
modem, ethernet MAU, and a so-so printer along
with SVR3, C programming package, TCP/IP,
sockets, tli, streams, layered shell, SCCS, etc.

I managed to find $4K to up the system to 4 M memory,
a second 72 M drive, and the Wooolongong TCP/IP
that should have come with it (and with which I will
be able to join Internet via the Pitt network).

Thus, I have a real (but slow) UNIX system that is
vastly superior to my first opportunity here (VENIX on
a DEC PRO350 [your fairweather friend]) and ULTRIX
over our network (which, unfortunately, did not include
remote printing at this site -- solution: lots and lots
of Kermit). 

Remember: Apple bulldozed several hundred Lisa's into
a Utah landfill...so, the 3B2 may not be much in the performance
dimension, but it has been a godsend to us.

(If, however, you are willing to donate a 486 similarly
configured, I'll sing your praises too).

John Slimick
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
slimick@pittvms.BITNET