NEC SX-4B on Ebay

10 Oct 2008

...
   It's a
UNIX box, man.  The most (programmer-)friendly OS in
 existence.  At least for even moderately technical people.  There are
UNIX-compatible people and non-UNIX-compatible people (cf
 Unix Hater's Handbook). 
Even aside from that, I'm not convinced.  I think Symbolics Genera is
arguably more programmer-friendly, though that could just be because I
find Lisp a much nicer language than C.  (There may be even better
OSes; that's just what I have personal experience with.)

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NEC SX-4B on Ebay