who wants an HP 9000 T500?

[9000 VAX]

On 5/5/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> 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.

Yes. It is the huge rack tower type.

> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules
> 
>