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- From: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
- Subject: Starter Unix machine forsale...
- Message-ID: <Bxnwvn.68I@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: notarus@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
- Reply-To: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:09:09 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- Hi! I have a rather old NCR 1632 here... it's a nice machine, really, but
- i'm looking to buy something a little more robust. It's not a mainframe,
- by any long shot, but as a personal workstation to learn the ins and outs
- of unix administration, this has been invaluable. It's a 68000, and it
- runs ATnT SYSVR2.02.something..it's an NCR package, value added. It has
- a couple of really nice, features, thou..
-
- The best is that it uses (cheap) MFM drives for space, so you can add
- in more if you need it.
- The next best is that if you boo boo, it's got a rom-based menu
- driven installation that will allow you to reformat the drives, recompile the
- kernel, etc... all the tough tasks that make life so..hellish if you
- make a mistake, it can do for you.
-
- I have all the manuals, all the books, etc...
- I'd like to sell it to upgrade the PC on my desk.
-
- Without a hard drive (installation copy and complete filesystem
- on floppy disk) i'd like to get about 370 dollars for it, with a terminal.
- If you want the two 46 meg MFM drives that i put into it, i'd like to
- get about 500ish for it....
- please let me know.. Everything works just fine. Well, everything except the
- tape drive, and that's cause i compiled the kernel without the
- CPIO drivers...i wanted the memory. You'd simply need to recompile it to
- get it back up and running.
-
- includes:
- case
- NCR 7901 terminal (it's not vt100, but it's good enough to run vi and
- anything else on..)
- lots of serial cables
- 1/4 inch tape drive, 20 meg capacity uncompressed
- 6 or 8 1/4 inch tapes for the drive...3M taps
- ATT SYS5R2 unix, all docs, all system docs, every piece of paper you'd
- need to work with.
- Machine
- 2 46 meg MFM drives....that's optional, remember. :)
-
- that's 370$$ without the hard drives, 500 with. OBO, of course...
-
- mark
-
- --
- These are my opinions. These are only my opinions. If this had been a real
- honest-to-george CCSO opinion, it would have had someone else's name on it.
-