24 Jan
2002
24 Jan
'02
9:46 a.m.
Hi everyone!
I went to the University of Michigan Property Dispotition warehouse
today, and I've got a couple of questions and other related things
to say.
1. To the couple of people who asked me about the NeXTDimension Cube
that was there last month, my apologies, but someone else got to it
before I could.
2. I saw a DEC pedestal cabinet there that looked exactly like a VAX
4000 series machine, but it was just labeled "R 4000". I'm assuming
this was some sort of VAX, and there seems to have been a thread on
the NetBSD/vax mailing list about it a while back, but since their
mailing list archive server seems to be down at the moment, can anyone
tell me more about this machine? I'm a bit curious as to what it
is.
3. There was an interesting looking Evans & Sutherland computer there
labeled as an ES-3. I popped the front cover off of it and it looked
relatively sophisticated, but I didn't actually pull any boards and
get a good look at them since they don't like people doing that sort
of thing there at the warehouse. I read somewhere that this box runs
UNIX and had some pretty nice graphics capabilities for its time. Does
anyone know much about these (e.g. architechture, history, OS
specifics, etc)? Does anyone know how they stacked up to SGIs of the
era and similar competing machines? The thing's kind of heavy and
transportation to and from the warehouse is pretty evil for me, but
if its a really nifty machine, I'd like to save it (I've certainly
never seen one before). Unfortunately there didn't seem to be any
monitor, keyboard, or mouse included with it. Does anyone know any
specifics about these either?
Hmmm... other oddiments there that were kind of interesting included
a dual 8" Data General floppy disk drive, an old SGI POWER SERIES
Twin Tower machine, and probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting.
Just thought I'd mention them in case someone lived in the area and
was interested in taking a look.
Kind regards,
Sean Caron
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