4 Sep
2006
4 Sep
'06
4:06 p.m.
I've heard from an NHS (UK public health) source that a Data General
AV/10000 is to be scrapped sometime in the next six months. The guy laughed
and choked at the list price, ?795,000 ...
As far as I can ascertain, it has 32 x Motorola 88000 processors, a huge
SCSI disc array and a lot of RAM (could mean anything) and runs a flavour of
UNIX. But the whole thing has gone cranky (a technical term ?) and with
NPFIT (National Programme For Information Technology) (a ?37 billion
government IT project looked set to replace all IT in the NHS) the DG box
will become redundant next year anyway.
Is it worth rescuing ? Bear in mind I would probably have to pay the
equivalent scrap value. It also sounds quite big too, I can't find any idea
of the size on Google...
There is also a AV/25000 going end of next year, I think that is too new for
this list though (PIII Xeon), plus it's probably outside of my price
range...
Dave ;)
5 Sep
5 Sep
10:40 a.m.
On 9/5/2006 at 12:06 AM David Hunt wrote:
I've heard from an NHS (UK public health) source
that a Data General
AV/10000 is to be scrapped sometime in the next six months. The guy
laughed
and choked at the list price, ?795,000 ...
I think the AViiON stuff just barely squeaks in under the "10 year rule"
(dodging brickbats). :)
Wow, getting your hands on a not-that-old system that retailed for about
million dollars new is quite a find. From the web photos, it's hard to get
an idea of what the packaging is, but I suspect that it's rack-mount
because of the age and number of processors.
Congratulations!
Cheers,
Chuck
10:49 a.m.
Hello, My name is Benjamin. You seem to have a pretty good knowledge of quality data
general machines. Do you have any idea what a mint condition 1970 DG CS-30 with all boot
disks included would be worth? i have people interested, but i am not as familiar with the
Data General series as i would like to be before i sell mine.
Thanks,
Ben
Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: On 9/5/2006 at 12:06 AM David Hunt wrote:
I've heard from an NHS (UK public health) source
that a Data General
AV/10000 is to be scrapped sometime in the next six months. The guy
laughed
and choked at the list price, ?795,000 ...
I think the AViiON stuff just barely squeaks in under the "10 year rule"
(dodging brickbats). :)
Wow, getting your hands on a not-that-old system that retailed for about
million dollars new is quite a find. From the web photos, it's hard to get
an idea of what the packaging is, but I suspect that it's rack-mount
because of the age and number of processors.
Congratulations!
Cheers,
Chuck
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