[geeks] HP's

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> A friend of mine rescued about 20 HP 9000 712/100's... I snagged one for
> free... but I'd like to help him give them a good home rather than strip
> them if possible.  Does anyone know what they'd be worth approximately...
> what OS goes on them... i.e. version of HP-UX... or other OS's.  They each
> have 2GB drives, the RAM sticks were (we were told) 16MB and 32MB... but I
> don't remember if they were all maxed out... I Don't think so... they can
> take up to 192 according to spec.  All the monitors were either 17 or 19"
> I think I can't remember.  Would he be better off selling the components
> or the complete systems?  I just think it would be a shame to send them
> all off PC style... (he's a PC vendor so he didn't even know what they
> were)  They all came from AT&T.  He said he paid $20 each... (I think he
> might have been gypped).

3 words: Next Risc Workstation

Put Nextstep on the lot.  It isn't too much of a memory hog, and it certainly 
should be fine with the amount of diskspace.

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Joshua D. Boyd