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Article #236Re: Help needed finding Sperry 5000 parts
From: Christian Kuhtz
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 21:41
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 21:41
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gworthey@adnc.com wrote: > > rnicholl@angus.ASG.unb.ca (Roy Nicholl) wrote: > >What I have: > > An OLD Sperry 5000/30. Yes, the box says Sperry, though the manuals > > Roy, that was very interesting blast from the past. I, too, have a > few paper weights in my garage. The one thing you didn't mention... > Why? I mean, why not just grab an old ibm pc 4.77mhz? Or a vic-20? > What's the attraction here? > > Just curious. No flame whatsoever. [FLAME ON] Because a vic-20 or orig IBM PC don't run UNIX? [FLAME OFF] 5000/30's are nice. Especially the LED's under the "hood" :).. and the fact that the SVR2 (if memory serves) does support UUCP over TCP/IP and serves TELNET, FTP, and many of the r-tools through the processor on its Ethernet card... flame me if I've forgotten everything already :). Have a good one, Chris --___ ____ __ | _ \/ __/| \ Christian Kuhtz, Pencom System Administration Services | _/\__ \| \ \ <chk@psa.pencom.com> (303) 924-0510, cell: (303) 918-2066 |_| /___/|_|__\ on-site at IBM Government Systems, Boulder, Colorado
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!usenet From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@psa.pencom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys,comp.sys.ncr,comp.unix.sys5.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.sys.m68k,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,misc.forsale.computers.other,misc.forsale.computers.other.systems Subject: Re: Help needed finding Sperry 5000 parts Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:41:22 -0700 Organization: Pencom Systems Administration Group Message-ID: <30EAF802.167E@psa.pencom.com> References: <4btjkr$eji@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <4cdj66$gsq@taurus.adnc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: f.socks1.server.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; AIX 2)