who wants an HP 9000 T500?

[Joe R.]

 Ok, it's not what I was thinking of then. The 520 is a big desktop
calculator that runs Unix. AFIK it was the last big desktop machine that HP
made. It was the replacement for the HP 9845.

   Joe

At 02:31 PM 5/5/05 +0000, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 09:24 -0400, Joe R. wrote:
>>   If that's what I think it is, a HP 9000 520, then it's a real find. They
>> seem to be very rare. I have one but it doesn't work.
>> 
>>    Does it work? Is it the color version? (To self: I don't need any more
>> projects, I don't need any more projects....)
>
>We've got a T500. It's a huge grey Unix box, about the size of two 19"
>6' cabs. Ours has six processors on it (@ 60MHz I think) and a GB of
>memory, along with a shed-load of disk.
>
>Nice enough system for museum display (wonderfully made), and can still
>do some useful work in terms of demos etc, but probably of less use to a
>home collector due to space versus wow-factor.
>
>cheers
>
>Jules
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