24 Nov
2010
24 Nov
'10
8:59 p.m.
Mark Davidson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John Finigan
<john_finigan at yahoo.com> wrote:
Same here... I love weird old Unix workstations and the Aviion is one
of the machines I'd dearly love to own.
Am I right in thinking that there were big Aviions, too? The only one I ever
saw was a small desktop/deskside tower.
I must say I'd rather like one, too - something about 88k CPUs appeals, somehow.
cheers
Jules
The first
was a Data General Aviion AV300 workstation. This is one
of the few machines built around the Motorola 88K CPU. It came with its
original keyboard, mouse, monitor, and a full set of DG-UX manuals. I
don't yet know if it's functional, but according to my friend it was
running a few years ago.
Ack, I'm really jealous over this one :) It'll
be interesting to hear
if the presumably dead nvram battery matters -- I think some people are
looking for dumps from working units.
John Finigan