I'm open for it, anyone else ?
At 11:14 PM 11/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I'd like to snag one of those as well. Any chance of doing some sort of
coordinated roadtrip with folks meeting in a central place for distribution?
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>-- Tony Eros
> Digital Equipment Corporation
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>From: John R. Keys Jr.[SMTP:jrkeys_at_concentric.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 7:44 PM
>To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
>Subject: Re: FWD: FREE to good home: IBM RT 6150s
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>If no one close want them I could drive from Minnesota to your home a
>meeting place close to the IL border one of these weekends before snow hits.
>John
>At 09:16 PM 11/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Found the following on comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
>>Anybody near him wanna rescue these machines.
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>>I acquired one about a month ago here in Indiana, along
>>with a fairly complete set of books and disks. Mine has
>>two ESDI drives (300mb & 110mb) and loaded with
>>AIX 2.2. It's a tower case about 24" x 24" x 9".
>>If I remember the front panel says System 135.
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>>Mike Thompson
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>>Subject: FREE to good home: IBM RT 6150s
>>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill_at_texas.net>
>>Date: Sun, Nov 9, 1997 20:52 EST
>>Message-id: <645pd8$cbc$1_at_news3.texas.net>
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>>I recently acquired this whole bunch, with the intention of getting
>>at least a couple of them reloaded and working; however, I've now
>>got plans to move soon, and cant afford to move these machines. I'd
>>like to see them go to a good home; so they're free to the first
>>person to come pick them up.
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>>System Configurations: (6 systems)
>> EAP processors (16mb RAM each)
>> dual ESDI hard drives (unknown size)
>> SIIG ISA-bus I/O cards
>> Graphic cards with 6153 mono monitors
>> Ethernet (AUI / 10base2) cards
>> ESDI controller cards
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>>The other system only has the HDs and ESDI controller card (no CPU card
>> or other cards). Also, one of the above systems is lacking the 1.2mb
>>floppy drive; it may be the same system that is lacking a CPU card.
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>>I beleive 3 or 4 of the machines also have tape drive controller
>>cards; and I have three external IBM QIC tape drives to go with them.
>>I've also got a 15" monochrome IBM monitor that has a DB9 data cable
>>connector.
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>>I've got some manuals (User's manual, problem determination guide, and
>>2-3 others) in the IBM binders.
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>>Systems are located in Austin, Texas. You'll need a good-sized pickup
>>truck or van to haul all of them away. If you're interested, let me know.
>>It sucks to let these go, but I cant afford to move them along with my
>>other computer equipment.
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>>I can be reached at mrbill_at_texas.net.
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>>--
>>Bill Bradford Sr. Systems Engineer ICQ: 1864511
>>mrbill_at_texas.net Texas Networking, Inc. http://www.texas.net
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Received on Wed Nov 12 1997 - 19:36:38 GMT