[rescue] Interesting UK eBay Auction...

[Michael-John Turner]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:13:42PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
> CodeMicro are in the USA, but Chiltern IT have a few refurbs for 71.34 Inc
> shipping.

Whoops, I missed that :(

> Well this is what made me wonder, given the zx6000 is sold as a rack server
> *and* a tower workstation and it's the same unit with either rack mountings or
> a desktop pedestal setup.

Indeed. Subjective reports suggest it's not too noisy (one would hope
it's reasonably quiet as it's designed to be used in an office
environment).

> All in works out at a shade over 235 shipped for the unit and one PSU. Still
> no discs tho - probably FCAL drives?

Ultra 320 SCSI[1], which makes things a bit easier (although FC-AL drives
are pretty cheap on eBay anyway).

[1] http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_zx6000.html

-mj
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