I picked up the same setup for $1.00 earlier this year from a guy in Colorado. This one on eBay appears in much better condition except for the terminals which seem to have a fair amount of screen burn-in. The stuff is very heavy, especially the 5225. Don't expect to ship it, and don't expect to transport it in a pickup. You will need a truck with a lift gate, or a wide ramp (difficult to find) and low- profile deck (both units have wheels). If anyone goes for it, I can help you with a few basics (like hacking the memory to find the master security account/password, which you need if you want to do anything useful). I've restored mine as best I can (I'm too afraid to start removing cards from their cages because this stuff is so old). Good luck. Paul On Oct 29, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Mike Ross wrote:

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Paul Heller wrote: Nonsense! http://www.kiwigeek.com/hjp/comps/IBM_s34/PickUp/ Of course, not everyone is willing to redneck picking up something like that. Then again, I can't imagine it has that much value since no one here is willing to take it back off my hands ;) All things are possible, with a bit of imagination. JP

Only about 13Years old, but quite large: http://convex.topinform.de/c38/images/ Andreas

In article <4547003D.6050504 at topinform.de>, Andreas Holz <asholz at topinform.de> writes: Nice! It saddens me when I see thick cables cut with bolt cutters instead of detached from the receptacle and coiled up with the unit though :-(. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>

In article <45478AB9.4020604 at msm.umr.edu>, jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> writes: But if they cut the mains end, you still have the original cable that you can use! I imagine that they probably cut /both/ ends if it was as you describe, leaving a bunch of cable for scrap. I guess I just prefer not to see things go to waste. If they cut the cable at the computer end, its not like they're going to do anything useful with the cable from the mains end. Yeah, they look like power cables but I don't know for certain. I've certainly seen all cabling, regardless of use, cut as a machine was "decomissioned", even things like RS-232 cables that have a connector on them! -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>

Richard, right, it is quite sad, but these can be substituted. A much bigger problem was, that these systems, but not only these, are using isolation transformers and these are often scrapped. Meanwhile I got one from a Fujitsu VPP, but I've knowledge of a transformer in Poland, a trip of 1000Km. Another problem is documentation and software. Due to a lot of help from former Convex people we got some, but far away from completeness. This is not the only system, we have also: - a C220, dual Vector - 2 SPP1200XA (MP Pa-Risc, SCI) - 3 SPP1200CD (MP Pa-Risc, SCI) - 1 SPP1600XA (MP Pa-Risc, SCI) - 1 SPP1600CD and one SPP1600 Chassis (MP Pa-Risc, SCI) - 1 SPP2000 48 Processor System (MP Pa-Risc, CC-NUMA) - 1 S-Class 32 Processor System (MP, Pa-Ris) - 1 Cray J916 and these C3860 (Vector) beast (3,5ton + 500Kg Isolation Transformer + 500Kg SMD-Disc-Rack) Andreas

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:56 +0000, Adrian Graham wrote: The (possibly incomplete and very badly treated) Convex C200 (is it supposed to be a single rack? It's not supposed to be upside-down, is it?) belonging to the Norwegian Computer History Society, NODAF, has had the cable cut in much the same way, so I think it was a relatively common thing. -Tore