Data General/NeXT/Philips

In terms of pure cool, and collectability, I always felt that the DG AViiON would be a great addition to any collection. Cool Points: 1. The ultimate Orphan. One of a small handfull of machines to use Moto's 88000 CPU chipset. 2. DG's been encouraging its customers to 'upgrade' to their newer Intel offerings, so 'obsolete' hardware can be had fairly cheap. 3. Runs DG/UX (subspecies of UNIX). Can't get much cooler than that. 4. Came in double, and quad CPU configurations. Mondo cool. Caveats: 1. Make sure you get the software with it, as replacements are hard to come by, and ludicrously expensive. 2. Make sure you get the keyboards, mice, crt, etc. These were unique to the AViiON, IIRC. 3. No free operating system available for it (no LINUX or *BSD). Bummer. Just my $.02. Jeff On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:51:46 +0100 "Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk> writes: ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.