MacWEEK preview of prototype ANS 700

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PL212

PL212

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Today a February 1996 issue of MacWEEK was uploaded to the Internet Archive featuring a 'beta test' of the Apple Network Server 700. Unlike most of MacWEEK's stories about unreleased machines, this seems to have been an official loan of pre-release hardware. They photographed the server in studio settings and included performance benchmarks.


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The text on the back seems to match @ClassicHasClass 's machine detailed here.

macweek1996ans700-2.jpg


Are those four additional ethernet cards installed in the back? 🧐

The article starts on page 1 and continues on pages 44 and, with a 90° rotation error, page 46.
 
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ClassicHasClass

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Wow, nice find! Yup, those look like the 10Mbit ANS card, and that is definitely an ESB Shiner. I have two of the 10Mbit cards and one of the 100Mbits, but there never were very many.

Not sure what they mean by greased skids in the front drive trays (ewww).
 
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