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Post by: alienman82 on Fri, 11 December 2015, 23:17:30
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Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: SamirD on Tue, 15 December 2015, 01:30:13
Why do the HDs always get wiped?  I'd love to have one of these in functioning order just to use it as intended.
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Post by: alienman82 on Tue, 15 December 2015, 11:26:20
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Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: SamirD on Tue, 15 December 2015, 22:20:46
Why do the HDs always get wiped?  I'd love to have one of these in functioning order just to use it as intended.

probably a security measure.  I had one once and it worked fine, but there wasn't much I could do with it.  I have one with Windows NL on it now
Yeah, but I'm sure the software was a big part of the cost of these things back in the day.  It would be nice to play with the software or at least preserve it.

What's Windows NL?  Did you mean NT?

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Post by: alienman82 on Tue, 15 December 2015, 22:54:38
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Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: SamirD on Wed, 16 December 2015, 01:01:27
Why do the HDs always get wiped?  I'd love to have one of these in functioning order just to use it as intended.

probably a security measure.  I had one once and it worked fine, but there wasn't much I could do with it.  I have one with Windows NL on it now
Yeah, but I'm sure the software was a big part of the cost of these things back in the day.  It would be nice to play with the software or at least preserve it.

What's Windows NL?  Did you mean NT?

yeah meant NT sorry. 
That's pretty cool that they can run NT.  I would've thought 95/98se would have been been the usable limit.  Still would be nice to find one in completely working stock configuration.  I'm just really curious as to what a $12k network analyzer could do.

Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: jamster on Thu, 24 December 2015, 06:50:24
Why do the HDs always get wiped?  I'd love to have one of these in functioning order just to use it as intended.

Because anyone in IT who lets an unwiped corporate machine end up on Ebay without a disk wipe (if not physically destroyed) would probably get fired if their company ever found out.
Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: jamster on Thu, 24 December 2015, 06:53:25
That's pretty cool that they can run NT.  I would've thought 95/98se would have been been the usable limit.  Still would be nice to find one in completely working stock configuration.  I'm just really curious as to what a $12k network analyzer could do.

Given that those things are probably ~20 years old, probably nothing that Wireshark (free) and a $100 used Core2 machine with a couple of NICs couldn't do a whole lot better!
Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: Mattr567 on Sun, 27 December 2015, 16:47:40
Why do the HDs always get wiped?  I'd love to have one of these in functioning order just to use it as intended.

Just stick Linux on it and have some fun. Upgrading the internals and modernizing it would be a fun project as well.
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Post by: alienman82 on Sun, 27 December 2015, 17:05:10
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Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: SamirD on Tue, 29 December 2015, 06:36:43
That's pretty cool that they can run NT.  I would've thought 95/98se would have been been the usable limit.  Still would be nice to find one in completely working stock configuration.  I'm just really curious as to what a $12k network analyzer could do.

Given that those things are probably ~20 years old, probably nothing that Wireshark (free) and a $100 used Core2 machine with a couple of NICs couldn't do a whole lot better!
True, but it would have been interesting to see what network analysis was like on a professional machine built for that purpose from yesteryear.

Trumpet Winsock under Win3.1 had a mode where you could see every packet on the line.  Of course this was before switches so there wouldn't be much on the line these days.
Title: Re: DOLCH
Post by: ander on Sat, 09 January 2016, 21:30:13
Subject: Re: DOLCH [FINISHED]