25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
7:38 a.m.
Yes, very nice 3000. I always liked the desk form-factor for the Series
44/48/58. Looking at the pictures also looks to have a complete set of CPU
cards and memory, along with a fair number of GICs (I/O channels for
Disc/Tape/Printers) and terminal channels (ATPs). I did not see a network
interface - those are fairly rare on Classic (16-bit) 3000s. Fixing the
chopped power cord and conversion to 120V I suspect are very doable.
You could (probably) hook this system up to a HPDrive Project (
http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdrive/) instance and have a very
sweet late-1970s to mid-1980s minicomputer timesharing system running MPE.
Cheers - Lee C.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
I just got a VAX-11/730 recently. I haven't done
much with it yet, but
it's the star of my retrocomputing collection!
I just saw this on eBay:
Hewlett Packard 3000 Series 58 Business Mainframe Computer System (32558A)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261542403429
Located in Ventura, CA. I haven't seen one of these before. I don't know
how flexible these guys are on their asking prices.
I'm not at the right coordinates in my area-time-money space to adopt
this, but it does stimulate my curiosity.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
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Lee Courtney
+1-650-704-3934 cell