Re: ED--->Compaq 1500

[Edward Grimm <edgrimm@neptune.mtc.ti.com>]

Scott Williams wrote:
> 
>>Btw, what is a 'Compaq 1500'?  They don't seem to refer to anything by this
>>tag (they have an 'Armada 1500' series, but considering those are notebooks,
>>I'd think only a looney would relegate it to being a fileserver).  Some
>>specs for the machine could be useful for ...  Oh, wait.  Forgot about the
>>ban on Useful Information.  Nevermind.
>
> A couple of years ago, when we bought this server, it was a Compaq 1500R 
> Rackmount Pentium Server. It had hot-swap drives and was about the size of a 
> 'fridge, case and all. We put some DLT's in it for backup, it had a keyboard 
> and monitor tray, and the door was smoked glass so you could lock it and still
> see the monitor. Pretty nice for the price. Less than $20k fully built. If I 
> remember correctly, it had dual P5 166, 128Mb RAM, Ultra SCSI III, blah, blah,
> all the bells and whistles of that time. Still up and running.

Right.  And this says what about NT's performance?  Either they REALLY
over-bought, they need a lot more disk space than what seems reasonable
to me, or NT's not comparable performace to free unix.

Ed