[rescue] free 3b2 on craigslist in DFW area

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Fri Oct 31 19:44:15 CDT 2014


Damn. I have things that need a 3b2 to build.

Will buy it off anyone if anyone here gets it

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> On Oct 31, 2014, at 20:25, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <rant>
> 
> See, the problem with the craigslist free section is that these will
> probably get picked up first by someone who has no idea what to do with
> them but wants them simply because they're free.
> 
> I've tried to give away equipment on CL and I had a replies in minutes from
> a few of these folks who presumably trawl through the free section all day.
> 
> They had no idea what any of it was, but tried to pick it up presumably
> because it was free and looked slightly valuable.
> 
> In one case- c. 2003- it was some model of alpha workstation I since wish I
> had kept.
> 
> Someone asked me if it would run AOL, and when I said no, they still wanted
> it anyway. Ugh.
> 
> </rant>
>> On Oct 31, 2014 5:16 PM, "Jerry Kemp" <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:
>> 
>> free 3b2 on Craigslist in DFW area
>> 
>> This isn't mine, just found it on Craigslist.
>> 
>> Someone save this.
>> 
>> http://easttexas.craigslist.org/sop/4706595282.html
>> 
>> relevant section:
>> 
>> ========================
>> 
>> And an AT&T 3B2/400 running Sys V r3.2 Unix. It has about a dozen serial
>> ports and an AUI network interface - internal 40MB MFM drive (I think).
>> Again, not even tried to boot this thing in a decade. I have a DEC vt240
>> terminal to match it. This is the machine I learned Unix on back in the
>> early 90s.
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