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what the gently caressquote:The Apple Network Server (ANS) was a short-lived line of PowerPC-based server computers manufactured by Apple Computer from February 1996 to April 1997, when it was discontinued due to poor sales. It was codenamed "Shiner" and originally consisted of two models, the Network Server 500/132 ("Shiner LE", i.e., "low-end") and the Network Server 700/150 ("Shiner HE", i.e., "high-end"), which got a companion model, the Network Server 700/200 (also "Shiner HE") with a faster CPU in November 1996. They are not a part of the Apple Macintosh line of computers; they were designed to run IBM's AIX operating system and their ROM specifically prevented booting the classic Mac OS. This makes them the last non-Macintosh desktop computers made by Apple to date. The 500/132, 700/150, and 700/200 sold in the U.S. market for $11,000, $15,000 and $19,000, respectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Network_Server
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a guy on 68KMLA posted:Yes, AIX 4.1.5 with my own security patches. I shouldn't be too hard on it, it's a pretty busy server, considering (the web server handles around 10,000 transactions a day -- not bad for a vintage server).
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 11:36 |
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 11:42 |
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I use a Mac mini as a home server op
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 11:47 |
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Apple Network Usage Server
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 14:43 |
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did you get one at your job yet op
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 14:47 |
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sweet AF
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 16:21 |
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yospos af
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 17:26 |
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what's the power draw on that big sumbitch?
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:32 |
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:I use a Mac mini as a home server op same
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:34 |
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what the gently caress? ive never heard of this thing
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:34 |
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Apple BackOffice Server
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 19:06 |
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pram posted:Apple BackOffice Server Back Orifice Server
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 20:00 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:what's the power draw on that big sumbitch? Loud graph posted:what the gently caress? ive never heard of this thing me neither until i did some googling to figure out if you could fit a 68060 into any mac and stumbled across it (answer to my question: maybe, with a lot of work)
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 20:01 |
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its... beautiful
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# ? Sep 15, 2017 23:51 |
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I'm the color classic. also A/UX was cooler
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 06:28 |
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AIX, gross.
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 06:38 |
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Anus
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 14:52 |
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 15:42 |
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yeah apple probably sold more network servers than Xserves
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 17:23 |
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I used to janitor the 5 or so xserves that sat in the pentagon on site data center. They were from a failed Apple client rollout and just sat there for years not doing jack poo poo, but plugged in and ready to go.
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 17:29 |
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DAT drive tho
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 17:42 |
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I miss the mid-2000s apple that made really nice expandable mac pro models and pretty nifty rackmount servers. I wonder if we'll ever see that kind of apple again in the future
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 17:56 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:I miss the mid-2000s apple that made really nice expandable mac pro models and pretty nifty rackmount servers. lol no i seriously wouldn't be surprised if they straight-up stopped making iMacs entirely. "why do you need desktop? just use laptop. so simple"
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:01 |
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oh lol i didn't notice they announced iMac Pro
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:03 |
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they literally announced a new expandable Mac Pro coming next year
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:05 |
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Jony Ive is going to explain in great detail how hard it was to design a cylindrical eGPU case for the Mac Pro
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:12 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:what's the power draw on that big sumbitch? not particularly bad it's a single processor PReP box. it is very similar to the regular desktop macintoshes of its day
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:36 |
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The Management posted:AIX, gross.
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:36 |
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i used to have a 2-way ibm f80 that was about that size. thing sounded like a beast but i'm pretty sure it only drew about 600 watts
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 19:01 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:not particularly bad Yeah its a power Mac 9500 board inside with the roms broken so it can't run macos.
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 19:08 |
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nice rack.
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:11 |
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When I was in early college, before I could afford things like up-to-date computers, my dream was to use an xserve as my desktop machine
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# ? Sep 16, 2017 20:44 |
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infernal machines posted:i used to have a 2-way ibm f80 that was about that size. thing sounded like a beast but i'm pretty sure it only drew about 600 watts now that is a real aix box none of this sissy ppc poo poo. a real business man's chip, the rs64
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 04:51 |
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had aix 5.2 as the last supported os there were some linux distros that technically worked but had some weirdness if you tried to install via tty
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 05:01 |
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rs64 machines were much more expensive and much less popular than their ppc brethren, so support dried up about five minutes after the ppc / rs64 / power unification they were rad as hell though gently caress yeah i would keep an f80 in my collection if i stumbled across one
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 06:28 |
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i heard the place i work at now used to have a bigass RS/6000 system back in the 90s handling the ERP software. took up something like two or three full racks by itself
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 07:24 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i heard the place i work at now used to have a bigass RS/6000 system back in the 90s handling the ERP software. took up something like two or three full racks by itself there was no rs/6000 that big in the 1990s maybe you were on a mainframe and you didn't know it
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 07:35 |
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only server i ever dealt with that was around this age was some old alpha server when i worked for texas tech's distance leaning group back in 02-03 as an cj it was running some version of windows for alpha but iirc was nothing more than a file server at that point.
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# ? Sep 17, 2017 14:21 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:When I was in early college, before I could afford things like up-to-date computers, my dream was to use an xserve as my desktop machine one of my coworkers did this with a surplus Intel Xserve. Its the only Apple product ever where they didn’t care about acoustics because goddamn those things were loud.
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