[rescue] RS/6000??

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Do I need a monitor and keyboard for an RS/6000, or can I just hook up a
VT100 and null modem cable like a SPARC? Or is that too general a
question?

The RS/6000 I was looking at on eBay appears to be a desktop style (a
7011-250??). There's also a 59H which the seller tells me is
23"x25"x14". (Now that's a computer! Tho, not quite as much as the
PDP-10 I worked on in college...) Sounds a little like the 3B2s that the
Navy office I work in sometimes used to have. I constantly offered to
take one when they tossed 'em, but they have to DRMO that stuff (dispose
of in Navy channels). *sigh*

Shipping for the 59H would be more than the cost of the unit itself!
Actually, now that I think of it, *most* of my eBay computer purchases
are like that... Hmmmmm...

dave at cca.org wrote:
> 
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com writes:
> 
> >Anybody know if it's worth getting an RS/6000 for cheap??
> 
> >I've sort of been bitten by the "rescue bug" as it were... I've now
> >found Sun OS 4.1 for the 3/80 (thanks to SunHelp.org); transferred the
> >OS on my HP9000, gotten Oracle 8 to run on my SPARC2, replaced it with a
> >SPARC5, and I'm still looking for cheap fun. ;)  Is an RS/6000 a good
> >candidate for that??
> 
> RS6Ks are very nice.
> 
> the lack of OS choices for the first generation is annoying, but
> they still rock, and that deficiency will be fixed eventually.
> 
> I just put some new photos of my home system up, which includes a
> nice early RS6K:
> 
>         www.cca.org/dave/tech/retro.html
> 
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