On Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:22:43 -0700 
 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:

 > I keep my pc532 around as a reminder of what might have been, and as a
 > possible lesson for the future.  I figure for what I've put into it,
 > it's been time well-spent.  At least I can say that I saw a machine
 > based on the 32532 before it (the chip) finally died! :-)

Anybody remember the old Sequent Balances (before they, too, went the 
way of Intel...)?  Still have one at OSU (hurricane - sort of an ironic 
name) with 10 ns32032s in it.  Now _that_ was a machine ... `xy' disks 
hanging off the Multibus, and an old Wren 3 hanging off the SCED (SCSI, 
Console, Ethernet, Diagnostic ... quite a multi-purpose board :-).  Quite 
reliable little box ... had an uptime of nearly a year at one point, 
running it's 4.2 derivative.  It's probably the single-most reliable 
machine I've _ever_ used .. kind of makes me forgive it for being so slow 
:-)

I imagine you feel about the pc532 like I feel about the old Sequents in 
general .. the Balance series and the old Symmetry (the first of the 
Intel-based Sequents)... Maybe one day ....

Anyhow, cool to hear that your 532 lives...

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