Available for pickup.

[Simon Fryer]

All,

On 9/27/05, Tim Riker <Tim at rikers.org> wrote:
> They are not that big, are they? Are they the same as these systems?
>
> http://www.schrotthal.de/apollo/
>
> They look like normal workstations. There was just someone on the list
> asking for oddball workstations, no?

Yes. These are the more recent HP - Apollo workstations. The older
Apollo workstations people are interested in are the workstations
prior to the DN3000. Although even the DN3000's are becoming scarce
now.

> Looks like they will run pa-risc Linux. And many came with color
> 1024x768 displays.

The 400's are 68040 (or was it 68050) based. They will run NetBSD,
DomainOS and probably some version of HPUX. I ran one as a glorified
X-Term for a couple of years using OpenBSD as the underlying OS.
Seemed to work quite well but X tunnelled through ssh was rather
painful!

AFAIK the 700's are PA Risk. I seem to remember a friend installing
NextSTEP on one at some stage in the past. I guess there is also a
NetBSD port and a version of HPUX. They will not run DomainOS and
hence are not true Apollos (not that I am biased or anything).

> Where are they located?

On a different land mass to me?

> Perhaps they are just not old enough?

They are old enough, well over 10 years by now.

[...]

Simon

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