It is a Hitachi S-3600 2 GFlop vector system, ECL and all that, and is the only one outside Japan. Spare parts are not available, and most maintenance documentation is in Japanese. And, yes, I do mean 10-15 tons :-) We should certainly be happy to dispose of it as a working system, subject to a written guarantee that it wouldn't be passed on to Iran, Iraq, North Korea etc. (yes, really), but I can assure you that nobody sane would be interested.

Kevan Heydon reported Nick Maclaren as haveing said: I'm tempted to suggest the Cambridge University Computer Preservation Society, just to annoy them :-) I suspect that this is the old IBM 3084 that ran Phoenix. Any Cambridge people with more info? More to the point, what is to become of the software? Tapes? etc. I'd love it but I (a) have nowhere to put it and (b) have difficulty transporting anything over 1/2 ton. Philip.