[rescue] RS/6000??

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

ssandau at bath.tmac.com writes:

>Anybody know if it's worth getting an RS/6000 for cheap??

>I've sort of been bitten by the "rescue bug" as it were... I've now
>found Sun OS 4.1 for the 3/80 (thanks to SunHelp.org); transferred the
>OS on my HP9000, gotten Oracle 8 to run on my SPARC2, replaced it with a
>SPARC5, and I'm still looking for cheap fun. ;)  Is an RS/6000 a good
>candidate for that??

RS6Ks are very nice.

the lack of OS choices for the first generation is annoying, but
they still rock, and that deficiency will be fixed eventually.

I just put some new photos of my home system up, which includes a
nice early RS6K:

	www.cca.org/dave/tech/retro.html

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