http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=14015246236… FWIW I believe the 5362 is a sublime machine. The machine architecture and operating system are totally unlike the VMS/UNIX stuff many of us are used to. The mainframe derived, yet somehow unique approach is weird and wonderful... Even a familiarity with its descendant AS/400 won't quite give the same thing. Just for example, the system runs in 8 bit compartmentalised process spaces. The processors are 8 bit, but the machines often have as much as 2 MB on them. So they've taken the concept of memory windowing to something of an extreme. You can't program outside the 64 MB RAM bounds without invoking a separate program in another memory space. On the other hand, you have have as many applications running in either shared or single instance mode as you have memory for. As a second 'for instance', there are actually 2 CPUs. One is more or less equivalent to a channel controller in that it does all the IO. Truly, this is a machine worth having. There has never been an emulator written to reflect this architecture, so the only way you can really experience it is first hand. Add to that the library/directory/file data storage paradym, RPG/Basic/Cobol/Assembler as the programming languages, and an extensive menu/terminal IO driven interface and you have something as un-cshell like as I can imagine in a machine you are ever likely to actually possess. Compared to this a PDP/11 running RT-11 (or the like) feels a pimped version of CP/M. IMHOP: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... (I'm already ducking my head for fear of the flaming retribution of the DEC collectors on the list) --- Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote: Now I just happen to be the poor sap with this thundering albatross. After making my pitch, and singing the platforms virtues let me ask, nee plead for a new keeper to step foward. Here is the revised 'scoop'. I haven't laid eyes on this system in at least 5 years. It's stored in a ground level lock-up (garage door style) outside Hartford. I will give a copy of the key to ANYONE who will relieve me of the storage rental. But that's ALL I can give you. Over the years I have indeed tried to give away this system to a number of well intentioned people. The problem is they always want me help transport it. Well my ability to 'help' has descended from the sublime to the ridiculous. I no longer living in the area (by which I mean I live 4000 miles away in England and can be of no imaginable assistance at all). Tempted? Drop me a mailing address and I will eagerly post you a copy of the padlock key. From there... over to you. Do your best to collect it (all of it, please). You MUST have (1) a forklift (2) a tail lift (3) a team of oxen (a fraternity pledge class would be ideal). The photo published on 'marketplace' is of the actual machine, just before I moved it. The 'vette' in the background should give you a clear idea of scale. Go on, I know you want to. Sridhar's no threat to your acquisition. He wisely turned me down so long ago I imagine he's forgotten about it altogether. Thanks, Colin Eby