[geeks] HP's

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I just picked up a HP 9000/720 for $65CAN (about $40US). Just wondering if I
got a good deal?

PA-RISC 100MHz
16MB Ram
5xxMB SCSI drive
Keyboard (& mouse?)

I was thinking of running NextStep on it.

shawn



-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Andrew Weiss
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:14 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] HP's


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> 3 words: Next Risc Workstation
>
> Put Nextstep on the lot.  It isn't too much of a memory hog, and it
certainly
> should be fine with the amount of diskspace.

Normally I would be fine with that except for a few things.

1. I don't own NEXTSTEP for HP-PA... I have Openstep Mach 4.2 User and
Developer for Intel/NeXT, but I am unaware of the last or latest version
for this HP machine.

2. I need something to learn HP-UX on... so maybe I'll use HP-UX for a
while and then switch to NEXTSTEP later... (since next to OS X I think
it's one of the nicest systems out there)

Andrew

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