bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) (06/30/90)
In article <mlp46b@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.uucp (David Harrington) writes: >In article <16@mas.UUCP> smarc@mas.UUCP (Marc Siegel) writes: >> >>I have a CT MiniFrame at one of my remote sites. It locks up >>constantly. I got hold of somebody who was familiar with the >>version of CTIX I'm running (CTIX 3.20). >Painful memory time: does anyone remember the Megaframe? Now I have a question. I was called into a site a week or so ago, and there was a box called the MightyFrame (Is that correct). Running CTIX. Have OS manuals but absolutely nothing on hardware. What is is comparable to in hardware performance, and what is it's hardware. bill -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP
dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) (07/06/90)
Ah, the CT Miniframe. Whatever the Machiavellian schemes Convergent may have had for it, it actually was useful to some of us who were interested in makingthe transition from one-line BBSs to multiline small subscription conferencing system, without buying Ft Knox. Ran the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage service for 5 years on 10 ports with few problems. About an un-supported a machine as there ever was, so strictly do it yourself. Then a second one, (the 'plus' model) for a client, and it ran fine. But it had one peculiarity which now bedevils me. Sometimes it just wouldn't boot on any of 2-3 stand-alone boot disks after a power outage crash, unless I ran the Diagnostic disks, which did nothing but run, then boot again on one of those odd-ball 600k floppy drives. Long since having moved to 386 SCO Xenix machines for our service, I continued to use the CTs however, as back end, RS232 connected machines doing things only a small Sys 5 would do and Xenix wouldn't. But a few months ago an electrical storm brought both to their knees, and I can't for the life of me get the stand alones to boot the system so I can fsck the hard drives and keep truckin without a total reinstallation. The standalones start to boot, click along advancing on the floppy about a third of the way, then sputter, and restart again by themselves. Such behavior used to be associated with a change on what was attached to the RS232 ports. So much as remove one cable which had been attached to a port, and it would never boot. Replace it and it would. Now any suggestions would be appreciated, for I really have too much to do to start all over with them, but I also hate to have the lovable little critters sit there stone cold when there are some uses for them yet.