I've heard from an NHS (UK public health) source that a Data General
AV/10000 is to be scrapped sometime in the next six months. The guy laughed
and choked at the list price, ?795,000 ...
As far as I can ascertain, it has 32 x Motorola 88000 processors, a huge
SCSI disc array and a lot of RAM (could mean anything) and runs a flavour of
UNIX. But the whole thing has gone cranky (a technical term ?) and with
NPFIT (National Programme For Information Technology) (a ?37 billion
government IT project looked set to replace all IT in the NHS) the DG box
will become redundant next year anyway.
Is it worth rescuing ? Bear in mind I would probably have to pay the
equivalent scrap value. It also sounds quite big too, I can't find any idea
of the size on Google...
There is also a AV/25000 going end of next year, I think that is too new for
this list though (PIII Xeon), plus it's probably outside of my price
range...
Dave ;)