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

JP Hindin jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com
Tue Apr 30 10:14:59 CDT 2013


On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 04/30/13 10:34, JP Hindin wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 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.  :)

Hands down. The name is correct - although he now lives in PA. In theory
I'm trading the S/34 with him for a Cray J90. But even with one less Cray,
he'll still have me beaten ;)

 - JP


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