jeff.kaneko at
juno.com wrote:
-- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote:
Appreciate the suggestion. I already have a few
deskside
88k AViiONs buried in storage,
Cool! Which model(s)?
Something like a 4300 or two, a pair of AV530 at least one of which has
dual CPUs, and an AV5500 (I think) deskside unit with at least one 88110
complex. I'm sure that by the time I get them out of storage all the
NVRAM batteries will have died, and the machines may be useless at that
point. IIRC r. bear stricklin was collecting an archive of EEPROM/NVRAM
images and I sent one or two in, hopefully that archive will be
available if and when...
an ADP-badged
M8120,
The Shoebox! Looks like OpenBSD kinda-sorta works on this
one . . .
Yeah, from what I can see at
m88k.org and
badabada.com it's supported. I
got the main unit and a peripheral box, but the front plastic panels had
been broken off of both units.
and one of the
OMRON Luna 88k SMP workstations. That last just
popped up on eBay one day so I grabbed it
You lucky dog! These are the rarest of the 88k systems (unless
you also consider the nearly-mythical 88k NextStation).
I was fortunate, it was more than five years ago now, and it cost me
under $150 shipped and insured. Sorry to brag, but don't worry -- I've
burned many tens of thousands of dollars on poor car purchases so fate
has made sure I'm not ahead of the game overall.
ISTR a LUNA appeared or E-bay a couple of years ago.
Was yours that
one?
I haven't noticed any other LUNA's of any flavor on eBay. But in the
interest of making mortgage payments I try not to look very often...
--S.