24 Nov
1999
24 Nov
'99
9:31 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Made a deal to get a Vax 6000, 2 Fujitsu Supercomputers and
TOPS10???
system
Ahhh, I should have remembered that! , thanks... I guess more weight :-( ..
This Vax 6000 was in the lab so it had quite a few toys hooked up to it
(hopefully some good boards to rip out of it).
Don't Grrr me guy! If I even tried to keep every mini I get every month my
wife would divorce me or we would go broke on storage costs.
I hope someone out there can use the boards in their minis....
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, John B wrote:
>I was told that there are at least 18 6' computer racks,, the only ones
that
the guy on the
phone could get at said:
Vax 6000
SA600 ??? (what's that?)
RK05 (or 7)
TU81
Some Fujitsu junk.
I know they paid 5 million for the Fujitsu 7 years ago.
...likely not junk. They make some kickass supers. I wonder if that is complete.
It is complete. I saw it in the computer room when they had it running (I
bought the system it replaced a few years ago!). I know the computer ran
fast and had *loads* of memory. The problem they had was their own employees
did not like using it. They ran it less than 4 years.
Anyone here know what a SA600 is?
It's a rack full of RA-series drives.
>As for the systems, I will probably scrap the
Vax6000 (for EBay
souvenirs).
>
>I saw one of the Fujitsu boards last year.... nice... most of the chips
had
>heat sinks on them (ram board).. and they were
huge.. Again too new and
too
big to deal
with.. I'll get what gold I can out of it.
Grrrrrr.
-Dave McGuire