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In article <29952.2B2DAD87@puddle.fidonet.org> Linda.Bush@f58.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Bush) writes:
>Please advise.  Our school has been offered as a gift a Pyramid 9820 
>mainframe computer.  Does anyone have any comments about how we may 
>impliment it.  Is it a dinosaur?  I understand that it is running Unix. 
>I guess we hate to turn anything free down but I am concerned that it 
>may take alot of money to be able to impliment it and we don't know 
>anything about it.  Comments welcome.  
>Linda Bush

You really haven't given enough information.  How much RAM?  How many
disks and of what type?  Tape drives?  Terminals?  Power supplies?
Operating system, software?

The Pyramids aren't exactly mainframe computers, they are I think data
center unix machines.   The term "mainframe" tends to be applied by
most people to anything that has more than one user, which isn't very
useful.  A data center machine often needs to be installed in a
dedicated room with a raised floor and it's own air conditioning system
(HVAC).  I'm not familar with Pyramids in general however, you may not
need any special facilities.  A problem with any donated equipment is
that if you don't have any funding to maintain it the moment something
breaks you have to junk the whole system.  Beware that any "gift" may
end up costing you a lot more money in room renovations, maintainence
fees, and upgrades than a brand new system might.  You might want
to ask someone who really knows something about such systems, such
as a consultant, or people in the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.pyramid.

You wouldn't happen to me in Masschusetts, would you?
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