13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
8:46 p.m.
Thanks very much. I like the binary dinosaurs bit - sums up precisely how I
feel ;-)
I get the feeling these things are going to cost money to get rid of rather
than be of any use to anyone.
Never mind. It's worth taking a moment to think, though, that these things
represent about ?32k of 1992 money. A friend of mine still works for an HP
VAR(which I also used to work at around that time) and recently had a
clearout of their stocks and spares. When they'd finished filling two large
skips full of old cream boxes, the reckoned that there was about ?2 Million
worth of gear at the original sale values sitting out in the car park.
The moral is - put the damned things to work early!!
Cheers folks
Adrian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: HP9000 Workstations
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Adrian Manise
Sent: 13 January 2003 10:27
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: HP9000 Workstations
>Please forgive my ignorance in this respect, but are HP9000 series 300
and
700 workstations considered classic computers yet. The
ones I'm thinking
of
were new around about 1992, and are pretty well
complete - although the
owner can't get them to boot now. You might have seen my list of stuff I
posted here last week - same stuff.
The list used to concentrate on stuff older than 10 years old, so you're
OK.
I've got a 9000-400 (I think) in a cupboard
somewhere, but the only reason
I
got it was it came with a multisync 19" monitor
which was summat I didn't
have in 2000 :) Pity it got damaged when I was crashed into whilst driving
home and I still haven't got round to fixing it yet. If anyone wants it
they
can have it. There's a v.poor
'taken-with-old-digital-camera-in-poor-light'
picture of it here:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/hp/hpapollo.jpg.
Are they desirable at all - or just old boxes? The
lack of interest might
have been because I stated thet they were uk based, do any
other Brits
subscribe to this list?
It's just a box to me; like I say, I picked it up because of the monitor.
There's maybe half a dozen of us who are active posters and who knows how
many lurkers.....
cheers
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans