10 Sep
1997
10 Sep
'97
8:43 p.m.
At risk of repeating someone elses post (I receive the digest form of
the list):
Recently seen on the net:
An HP 2100A minicomputer will become available soon,
in Ann Arbor, MI.
This is a machine I once worked on, but I can't take it (no space) so
if anyone wants an old workhorse of a machine with some significant
position in history, please take it.
The thing is a typical late 1960's or early
1970's rack mounted
minicomputer; I'm sure it can be safely de-racked. It can probably
be shipped UPS, but it would be at the upper end of the UPS size and
weight range, so it may have to go motor freight.
There may be a DEC RX01 and an RK05 drive attached to
it (I'm not
sure which of the HP machines at Michigan had what peripherals, but
the disk drives they used were from DEC). These can be deracked and
shipped separately, but they're commodity parts, in a relative sense,
while the HP2100 is not a commonplace machine.
Doug Jones
jones(a)cs.uiowa.edu
I would love this machine but shipping to Europe is out of the question
:-(
Don't let this one die a horrible death.
Regards,
Hans