[SunRescue] WTF is this?

[josh grubman]

very weird.

we found an HP pa-risc machine in a similar sounding "hardened" enclosure at
a nasa/greenbelt auction a few years ago. disks and memory had been removed.

you should take some pictures of this thing, i wanna see it.

-j

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 apotter at icsa.net wrote:

> Greetings, fellow propeller heads.....
> 
> I bid on and won a weird-ass portable Sparc at eBay.
> 
> It arrived today.  One of my guys, a former squid crypto tech, took one look 
> at it and said "Cool, a JOTS. Where in hell did you get that?"  It is a 
> modified RDI AFAICT, built by SAIC's tactical computing division.  The model 
> number is RSC-1X (MOCC).
> 
> It's encased in a grey steel case, with the color lcd attacked to the hinged 
> lid.
> 
> It appears to be completely functional except for the fact that the removable 
> HD and it's carrier are missing.  I'm sure I can rig something up, but I would 
> really like to track down one of the originals.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help or suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> AL
> 
> 
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