Re: MV/10000 for sale

Article View: comp.os.aos

Article #123

#123

From: Joe Pollock
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:03

41 lines
2138 bytes

In article <jstark.721780899@mcshh.hanse.de> jstark@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Jens Stark) writes:
>mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
>
>>The Eveergreen State College in Washington state has just retired their
>>MV/10000.  It was turned off to users almost a year ago now, they just
>>rolled it out of the machine room this week.
>
>>Anyone for some 'techno-furniture'?
>
>If this group doubles as advertising group, i could offer
> 7800XP
> 2000
> 4000 ( yes, really )
>whole or in parts..
>
>Greetings, 
>   Jens
>P.S. The NNTP stuff at my location does not work ( as it seems )
>      Anybody able to read this ?

Yep.

Well, the MV will be going to the WA Surplus Agency for disposal. We looked
all over for someone to take this machine in on trade for something newer,
the only way we can recover any value from the transaction.  If it's sold
outright, the money reverts to the State general fund...  None of the
brokers called me back after I sent them the configuration.  After looking
at the latest used equipment sales sheets, I can see why.

An MV/10000 CPU with 8Meg of memory now sells for $750.  The battery 
backup supplies are worth more than the CPU.  I found I could duplicate
the system on the used market for <$8100, for a system that cost over
$350,000 when purchased.

The problem with selling this puppy is the cost of relicensing the 
software - that's more than the cost of the system. So, I guess it 
would only be of interest to someone who wanted to part it out.

Joe Pollock
The Evergreen State College

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Nov19.230317.10325@u.washington.edu>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!milton.u.washington.edu!pollock

References: <1992Nov13.013838.15246@networx.com> <jstark.721780899@mcshh.hanse.de>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!milton.u.washington.edu!pollock
From: pollock@milton.u.washington.edu (Joe Pollock)
Subject: Re: MV/10000 for sale
Message-ID: <1992Nov19.230317.10325@u.washington.edu>
Keywords: MV/10000 sale
Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: The Evergreen State College
References: <1992Nov13.013838.15246@networx.com> <jstark.721780899@mcshh.hanse.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:03:17 GMT
Lines: 43

Reply to Parent Message