Nashorn

Nashorn ist a Sun 3/470. The CPU is a 68030 at 33 MHz, accellerated by a 64 kByte 2nd level cache. This yields more than double the speed of a Sun 3/60. The machine is placed in a 12-slot VME-Bus chassis.

The left compartment contains a Seagate ST43400N SCSI hard disk (3 GB) and an Exabyte 8200 SCSI tape drive (2.3 GB) while the right compartment contains a Seagate ST43400N SCSI hard disk (3 GB) and a QIC-150 tape drive.

The following cards are in Nashorn:

16 MB Memory (original Sun)
8 MB Memory (original Sun)
8 MB Memory (original Sun)
Sun 3400 CPU
(covered by the CPU)
Sun2 SCSI controller
Xylogics Tapemaster (xt)
Xylogics XY 7053 (xd)
(empty)
(empty)
(empty)
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Stations of the machine

Day of Birth:
Since 1990 one of two servers of the computer centre of the c.s. deptm. (IRZ) of the university of Kaiserslautern, Germany (uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de)
April 2000: Retirement
The machine made its way into year 2000 flawlessly with my Y2K-Patch