I've got a lead on four DG Aviions, CPUs only.
They look
to be pretty clean but I didn't have much time to check them
out and there was no way to test any of them. They appeared
to be identical, but I only got to see the back label on one of
them, which was an AV 4300.
Any interest?
Are these MC88000 based? If so, they're kind of neat boxes. I'd be
interested in them myself, except I'm really financially strapped
myself at the moment. I recall seeing a website for someone who
was interested in collecting systems like this; I think it was
http://www.m88k.org or something like that. IMHO, the MC88000
based Aviion systems are kind of interesting by their obscurity,
as I don't see them at all around by me.
Also, at the same place there's an RS/6000 J50.
Again, just the
CPU box itself and no way of testing anything.
Probably just an early MCA bus POWER based machine. Again, its
kind of interesting in that I don't see IBM RISC stuff very often,
but in the grand scheme of things, it's not as interesting as
the Aviion stuff (if its 88000 based).
If someone is seriously interested, let me know what
they might
be worth (sight unseen, I know) and I'll go back with an offer to
pick 'em up.
They're located in Maryland, if shipping or pick-up is an issue.
Wish I could afford to have you grab some of these in my stead and
have them shipped! All in all, they're probably not worth a whole
lot of money - they're "just" older UNIX workstations. I'd offer
maybe $20-50 per, depending on condition personally in terms of
just being able to pick up some new hardware. Others here will
probably dispute my idea of a "fair" price, though (I'm probably
a bit high off the mark).
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