On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:09 PM, leaknoil wrote:
> The ans is an abomination. Crappy as a server and as an Apple. > There is > nothing at all good about it and could only ever have been made when > Jobs wasn't around. It was junk. It may have been junk in your eyes, but ANSes were used to control very large theme parks and domain name servers alike, both are applications where failures are not an option. I agree ... that prospective seller is smoking something pretty strong to believe he can trade a brand-new car for his 12+ year old ANS, irrespective of its condition. When Walt Disney Company sold-off all of theirs, they were going for $400 for a brand new one and $100 for a used one. But the ANS was then a reasonably current model. When Apple sent all its remaining ANS inventory to Sacto for liquidation, they would not bring even $2, and that was $2 for a brand-new one or $2 for a used one ... didn't matter which. I once had a "connection" with a liquidator in Silicon Valley, and I bought his inventory of all the easily damaged parts, plus every tray which had card/cable kits, plus all of his loose card/cable kits to upgrade my empty trays. Plus all of his bases, as those are amongst the most easily damaged parts on an ANS. Try to move an ANS with the wheel locks in the locked position, and you will very likely damage the base, the wheel locks, the wheels, or all of them. The ANS is perhaps Apple's best documented system. All the documentation is easily available. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
