In terms of pure cool, and collectability, I always felt
that the DG AViiON would be a great addition to any collection.
Cool Points:
1. The ultimate Orphan. One of a small handfull of machines
to use Moto's 88000 CPU chipset.
2. DG's been encouraging its customers to 'upgrade' to their
newer Intel offerings, so 'obsolete' hardware can be had
fairly cheap.
3. Runs DG/UX (subspecies of UNIX). Can't get much cooler
than that.
4. Came in double, and quad CPU configurations.
Mondo cool.
Caveats:
1. Make sure you get the software with it, as replacements
are hard to come by, and ludicrously expensive.
2. Make sure you get the keyboards, mice, crt, etc. These were
unique to the AViiON, IIRC.
3. No free operating system available for it (no LINUX or *BSD).
Bummer.
Just my $.02.
Jeff
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:51:46 +0100 "Peter Pachla"
<peter.pachla_at_vectrex.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> Can anyone point me at some sources of information on Data General,
> NeXT and/or
> Philips (minis).
>
> I'm looking to round off my collection by adding something from one
> or more of
> these product lines but know little about them so I don't really
> know what to
> look out for.
>
> In particular I've heard mention of a DG MicroNOVA which sounds like
> it might
> fit the bill in terms of size.
>
> TIA.
>
>
> TTFN - Pete.
>
> --
> Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
> Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers
> (esp DEC)
>
> peter.pachla_at_virgin.net |
> peter.pachla_at_vectrex.freeserve.co.uk |
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> www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk
> --
>
>
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