Correct, HP Apollo 400, 25 Mhz 68040, Seagate ST12320 SCSI drives in some, no idea on memory (4 sticks of something in the one I looked in), and AUI and 10B2 ethernet. Three BNC's on a pullout I assume are for a monitor, but I didn't see any monitors and there were 35 of these Apollo's. My guess is the monitors may already be scrap, or kept.

Heck my wife, 8 year old son, and I live in about 500 square feet, trouble is before I started buying computers its was a 1850 sq ft house. ;) People talkin about them is giving me the itch for a Apollo running BSD etc. ;) I have seen the Apollo monitors around other places, but that isn't the sort of thing I would want to ship, or even lug out to the car. Shopping for Scrap The owner of the place is a friend of mine, but his prices are "moody". Scrap guys are all paranoid about finding some great item and selling it too cheap, so I get the feeling he "tests" me on prices to see if I have gotten stupid overnight. Today was entirely typical. My friend isn't around so I take a walk around the block. A couple two truckload a day operations aren't too far away, but they are hostile to anyone approaching without waving large bills. They fail to set the dogs on me, so I snoop a bit keeping 20 feet from the open rear gate. Pallets of old PCs and monitors, which do nothing for me anyway. I head for a pair of my favorite dumpsters, but too much real trash has been dumped on top of the computer stuff. Fortunately my friend arrives about then. I stroll in to pick up a bag of parts I forgot to take with me yesterday, and stay about 4 hours BSing and nosing around. One of the Apollo's was open so I looked it over noting the XC68040RC25 and wondering if it would work in a Centris 610 Macintosh, the Seagate SCSI drive I knew would work. About this time my friend hands me a couple Digital RZ27 drives, presumably I can have them if I can properly ID the rest he has, but I don't have a clue. The Digital 5 pin power connector means its a lookup not test job too, which I point out. I dig around a while longer and find a dozen or so 68882 chips with some bent pins, and pick out (3) RZ23-E and (3) 3100 3.5" Digital hard drives. Another computer guy shows up, and he nabs the RZ27 drives and pays my friend $40 each for them (providing they test OK). Over the next hour as this guy and my friend chit chat I learn more nasty stuff about local vendors than I need to know. After this is all done we start to work on some prices for what I have found (literally digging them out of a pile in the case of the 68882 chips). We don't agree on anything, not even close, so I end up not buying anything, but we both know I'll be back in a week or two. Already I am thinking about another place for tomorrow....

Perhaps I'm thinking of the 300 series? Is the 400 the very large portable with its own wheels? On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Merle K. Peirce wrote: M. K. Peirce Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc. 215 Shady Lea Road, North Kingstown, RI 02852 "Casta est qui nemo rogavit." - Ovid

Ours stands about waist high and has to weigh over 100#. since it has wheels, it is, of course, portabel...;) The monitor on ours appears to be secured to the top. Ours was the main server on a token ring. On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, John Amirault wrote: M. K. Peirce Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc. 215 Shady Lea Road, North Kingstown, RI 02852 "Casta est qui nemo rogavit." - Ovid

Like the 3000? HP Apollos aren't REAL Apollos...;) On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Mike Ford wrote: M. K. Peirce Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc. 215 Shady Lea Road, North Kingstown, RI 02852 "Casta est qui nemo rogavit." - Ovid