Xerox D-Machines (was Re: [rescue] The fat lady. . .)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:13:59PM -0600, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> You want that? Been there done that. Find a Xerox 1186 (aka 6085)
> running the Medley release of Interlisp. 20 years ahead of anything (yes
> _anything_ ) on the market today. Be ready to live with dying monitors,
> 5.25" full height disks, and power supplies but while she's running that
> old D machine will blow anything else ever made out of the water. Other
> bits will be faster; none will be more elegant. DWIM for example...or a
> real structure editor (emacs is a sickly as vi once you've tried
> that)... 

Err, how do the xerox machines compare to symbolics?  If I had the money, I 
know where to get symbolics parts are support (namely from symbolics which is
still in business, or in business again depending on how you care to look at 
it).  But, you need to be willing to spend around a grand not including 
shipping to be able to get much from them.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd