[rescue] More on Silicon Samsara

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Jun 23 22:55:00 CDT 2001


On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:48:34PM -0500, Chad A. Chance wrote:
> Well, I'm going to give away my secret but, oh well....

we won't abuse it too much. :)

> The thing is that this 150 was actually rebranded, it has a Bridgepoint
> sticker on it, so the seller didn't realize that he had a CPU that he could
> have gotten a lot more for, plus most people are on the look out for Ross
> procs and don't know about the few that Bridgepoint rebranded. From what I
> understand, Bridgepoint did this to very few procs, so this thing is
> probably pretty rare and worth even more then the Ross branded ones, from a
> collector stand point at least.

wow.  that is kinda cool to know.  now i can at least have a chance of getting
a second 150.  although i just sunk myself buying that VAX 4000/500 on ebay,
but oh, what a wonderous machine THAT will be. :)

> Life is good at times :-)

see my latest post about the PDP hardware, life is GREAT at times.

-brian



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