[geeks] valuation on a sparc 2 / ss10?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 01:52 , Dave McGuire wrote:

>   FP Systems, as in Floating Point Systems?  I didn't know they had a
> hand in that.  Very cool.

Yeah.  A goodly number of the ppl. I work with came from Celerity, then 
FP systems, then Cray, then SGI (briefly), then Sun.  Some ppl have been 
at it over 15 years...

>   One thing that I am looking for, that I would greatly appreciate any
> help in finding, is an FPS AP-120B (or similar) array processor.  It's
> an old (late 1970s) attached processor with a very interesting
> architecture that I'd like to do some stuff with.  If anyone knows
> where one of these might be, please let me know.  They were commonly
> connected to unibus pdp11 systems.  It's a rackmount chassis maybe two
> feet tall.

I'll ask around.  Are you serious, as in shipping and paying for it, 
etc?  OR just curious?

-Pete