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Hello everybody,

My request is probably a little uncommon, yet not unwelcome, I hope. But it 
is a strange request indeed. 
A dream of mine has recently become true; unfortunately it has nothing to do 
with world peace or the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with, still 
it's kind of sweet: I got an old server that got replaced and would have gone 
to the waste-dump if I hadn't saved it. Now it's standing around here, and I 
do not even have the slightest clue what hardware might be waiting inside 
this *huge* case.
And it is *huge* - I have a big-tower for my ordinary PC, and it looks pretty 
small, dwarfish, so to speak, compared to the server. =) The case plus 
everything inside weighs at least 75kg... 
Now my problem is, I couldn't manage to open the case so far... ;-/ Until I 
manage to, I hope you can help me a little in finding out, what kind of 
machine this is and what Operating System I can run on it (NetBSD, I 
hope...). But okay, what do I know besides its size? On the top-left corner, 
there is a button saying "Siemens Nixdorf Quattro /40". On the top-right 
corner there is another button saying "Nixdorf Computer AG Ident. Number 
...". I'm not gonna tell you that number, though... =)
At www.computerarchiv.de I found something about Quattro/25, Quattro/30 and 
Quattro/75 computers built by Nixdorf from about 1985 to 1995... But a 
Quattro/40 is not mentioned. 

What I would like to know is primarily: What kind of CPU has this machine 
got? Intel-based? If not, what else? MIPS-based? 
Then: What kind of documentation can be found on the internet? So far, Google 
turned up very little. I would like to have some kind of manual handy... 
Should I ask Siemens for help? (I guess I should ask Nixdorf, but they got 
swallowed by Siemens about 10 to 15 years ago... and Siemens-Nixdorf's 
homepage, www.sni.de is unreachable...)

Unfortunately the front- and back-panels are attached in a way so I could not 
remove them so far, so I don't know what kind of and how many ports the 
machine has (serial, ethernet, modem/phone line, parallel, SCSI, something 
even weirder...)

I hope someone will be able to help me. 
Otherwise you know now that I have a used server standing around here that 
weighs more than my sister (well, it might easily weigh more than I do, and I 
am at about 80kg...)

Kind regards,

Thank you very much in advance for every little piece of information you 
might be able to supply,

Benjamin Walkenhorst

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Benjamin Walkenhorst
eMail: krylon@gmx.net
homepage: http://www.krylon.de
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