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RE: [TCLUG:4984] The "Cube"



IIRC, according to the article (posted earlier) I think it topped out at
about $2000.

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade A. Harding
> [mailto:Wade.A.Harding.domain.ANDERSEN_CONSULTING.AC_XNET.CSCO
> E@notesgw.
> cscoe.ac.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 6:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:4984] The "Cube"
>
>
> $$??
>
>
> Randy Maas <randym@acm.org>
> 03/29/99 04:37 PM GMT
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> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:4984] The "Cube"
>
>
>
> At 10:25 AM 3/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >This thing sounds like it would be pretty cool. It's a tiny
> little Linux
> >server for the SOHO market. Kinda like a Netwinder, I guess.
> Anybody have
> >any experience with these?
>
>
> Yes.  I use one daily since I got it a month and a half ago.
> Very nice.
> Intensely easy to set up (took about 5 minutes, including
> knifing open the
> box).  So straight-forward that I am loath to give it up.
>
> About half the engineers, of course, came storming over to
> peak at it.  So
> here is what is inside
>  2 boards (a back plane and daughter board) running a MIPS CPU
>  One Quantum harddrive.
>  One small fan
>  One LCD light
>
> That is about it.  runs on 25 watts.  Don't expect to add any
> boards to it:
> the PCI bus is there, but there box is way to small to fit any PCI
> form-factor adapter in.
>
> Has two ethernet ports and a serial port -- you could use it
> as  bridge (in
> marketing speak 'firewall' but that would be sick) to between
> to ethernet
> networks (one might be to the outside world), or between your ethernet
> network and a modem dial up.  I use a 100BT network.
>
> Freakin' cool
> Randy Maas
> randym@acm.org
>
>
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