25 Sep
2007
25 Sep
'07
9:14 p.m.
--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
My father has a B80 in storage in Jacksonville, FL.
It was taken out of service in the mid-to-late 80's.
The CE left the maintenance prints onsite. My father
would like to get rid of the machine, and it is free
for the taking. There is quite a bit of software,
though not a lot in the way of system software,
as the company ran a turnkey application package on
it. I'm also not sure of the condition of the disks,
as the storage conditions are not optimal. The
machine itself looked to be in pretty good shape when
I last took a look at it about a year and a half ago.
--Bill
It's
definitely an interesting beast. I
have no experiance with Burroughs machines, but
still
I'm really tempted.
I would be a good thing to save. I think RSC/RI has
one as well
(W.D. would know for sure)
Also, no software has been archived for this
machine, so any
surviving copies would be a good thing.