[rescue] long shot... anybody got a Gateway 486?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 10:10:09 CDT 2013


Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> Most-expensive-when-new machine I've personally owned:  Sun Ultra
>>> Enterprise 3000.
>>
>> Oooh, I like this game. Unfortunately, I'm not entirely positive what
>> original costs were on things, but -
>> - Stacked Sun E10000 with 64x 466mHz processors and 64GB of RAM.
>> - IBM SP/2 with 64 processors (I forget how fast) and 56GB of RAM.
>> - nCUBE2 with 64 processors.
>> - I also have a six-rack Onyx2 system. I think those are the big dogs.
>>
>> Oh, I have an IBM S/34 that was sold, second hand, in 1978 for $188k - I
>> have the sales receipt.
>
> I suspect Dave McGuire (do I have the name right?  I'm not 100% certain,
> he hasn't been around for a while) in Florida with his collection of
> Crays has us all beat on that one.  :)

He lives near Pittsburgh now.  I have some machines that can give those 
a run for their money.

Peace...  Sridhar


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