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Re: updating a 3640

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From: Rainer Joswig
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00
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At 20:34 Uhr -0600 05.06.1999, dworkin@village.org wrote:

>:  Advice? O.k., if you are really a fan, contact Symbolics
>:  and get an Ivory (MacIvory 3, XL1200, XL1201, ...) machine.
>
>I'd thought they'd stopped doing hardware.

You can get some old stuff, repair and maintenance.
I recently upgraded a MacIvory 3 - which needed
some board-level hackery.

>  In any case, this kind of
>implies acquiring a Macintosh of some flavour, doesn't it?

No.

3600            Large Workstation
3610AE          Workstation, for running applications
3620            Entry-level Development System
3640            Workstation
3645            Workstation
3645            Workstation
3675            Large Workstation

The following are Ivory-Machines:

MacIvory 1      3 NuBus Boards for Apple Macintosh
MacIvory 2      2 NuBus Boards for Apple Macintosh
MacIvory 3      1 NuBus Board for Apple Macintosh
NXP1000         Pizza box with VME Bus, no free slots, no graphics
UX400S          VME Bus board for SUN SPARC
UX1200S         VME Bus board for SUN SPARC
XL400           Large Workstation with VME Bus
XL1200          Large Workstation with VME Bus
XL1201          Pizza box with VME Bus, no free slots

Open Genera     Ivory-Emulator on DEC Alpha


Rainer Joswig, "Lavielle" EDV Systemberatung GmbH & Co. KG, Lotharstrasse 2b,
D22041 Hamburg, Tel: +49 40 658088, Fax: +49 40 65808-202,
Email: joswig@lavielle.com , WWW: http://www.lavielle.de/
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