NeXT
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I've been keeping an eye on this machine for over a decade and finally the chance came where I could get my hands on it.
I got full board photos too! o:
This machine has no SCSI connections. Instead the system either bootstrapped over the network, or this very large battery backed SRAM module.
Okay, so what else do I know:
-The CX series machines are Unix-based machines running on a VME bus. The version of Unix it ran is unknown.
-It is unknown if the resident Unix is for middlemanning the graphics for a host machine via cabling and cards I do not have or if you simply attached a serial terminal and worked from there.
-This is a rackmount model. There was a tower standing workstation model, as pictured here --> https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/intergraph-ws-6000.1237464/post-1242695
-I have the matching model monitor. Three or four of them actually. The model of the machine and the monitor is the same. The serial numbers are suspiciously sequential.
-Bitsavers has no documentation for the CX Series
-Bitsavers has no software for the CX series
This machine is missing the top cover, a bunch of screws and has a broken fuse holder. I cannot tell for sure if any boards are actually missing or if there was no slot fillers ever in this machine. Otherwise it feels like the rest of the hardware is all there and its clean. I have taken far higher resolution photos but they add up to 150mb of images and the raw files are another 850mb.
I got full board photos too! o:
This machine has no SCSI connections. Instead the system either bootstrapped over the network, or this very large battery backed SRAM module.
Okay, so what else do I know:
-The CX series machines are Unix-based machines running on a VME bus. The version of Unix it ran is unknown.
-It is unknown if the resident Unix is for middlemanning the graphics for a host machine via cabling and cards I do not have or if you simply attached a serial terminal and worked from there.
-This is a rackmount model. There was a tower standing workstation model, as pictured here --> https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/intergraph-ws-6000.1237464/post-1242695
-I have the matching model monitor. Three or four of them actually. The model of the machine and the monitor is the same. The serial numbers are suspiciously sequential.
-Bitsavers has no documentation for the CX Series
-Bitsavers has no software for the CX series
This machine is missing the top cover, a bunch of screws and has a broken fuse holder. I cannot tell for sure if any boards are actually missing or if there was no slot fillers ever in this machine. Otherwise it feels like the rest of the hardware is all there and its clean. I have taken far higher resolution photos but they add up to 150mb of images and the raw files are another 850mb.
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