MC68010 early unix computer for sale on ebay

Brian Lanning wrote: Probably "diagnostic status"... I've seen it before on various old UNIX hardware. Looks like a pretty sweet box, even if it is rather boring from the outside :-) Battery that size suggests it's got some standby capability. Wonder what the bus is? Thought it might be STE, but it looks like there's only two rows of pins and IIRC STE was three (albeit with the middle row missing). Looks to all be SCSI, too, so there's a chance the hard disk is still good - and a chance the fs could be mounted via a Linux box and the password reset/cracked. Whether it still *has* an intact OS is another matter. Console... hmm, my NCR Tower had the main console on port 1; port 0 was for remote diags - perhaps this does something similar. Or it's just using an oddball pinout, or the tested terminal's settings were just wrong... "early unix computer" makes me smile - I think I see some 1988 and 1989 date codes on those chips (which seems a couple of years too late for a 68010-based UNIX crate). It's a good ten years too late to be "early" :-) (but I really like UNIX boxen from that sort of era - old enough to still be interesting, new enough to run at a reasonable rate) Unfortunately the run-up to Christmas is not a good time for me to be buying vintage crap ;) If it were after tax season I'd be tempted to give it a shot, I think... cheers Jules