[SunRescue] WTF is this?

[Chris Petersen]

Anybody wants, I know where there's a stack of Tempest Sun SPARCstation
2's...Not sure how cheap I can get them for, let me know and I'll try. 
Disks (which also use special carriers) & memory have been stripped.  Really
heavy-duty looking chassis, but still Sun appearance (dimple faced, etc.)

I'll try and smuggle a digital camera to the place for pictures sometime...

Usual military procedure is to destroy hard drives via thermite or something
similar, I believe...

Chris

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Chris Petersen
Systems Engineer
Unigraphics Solutions Inc.		Industry Services, Mid-America Region
Email: havoc at apk.net (Personal)       petersen at ugsolutions.com (Professional)


> 
> very weird.
> 
> we found an HP pa-risc machine in a similar sounding "hardened" enclosure at
> a nasa/greenbelt auction a few years ago. disks and memory had been removed.
> 
> you should take some pictures of this thing, i wanna see it.
> 
> -j
> 
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 apotter at icsa.net wrote:
> 
> > Greetings, fellow propeller heads.....
> > 
> > I bid on and won a weird-ass portable Sparc at eBay.
> > 
> > It arrived today.  One of my guys, a former squid crypto tech, took one look 
> > at it and said "Cool, a JOTS. Where in hell did you get that?"  It is a 
> > modified RDI AFAICT, built by SAIC's tactical computing division.  The model 
> > number is RSC-1X (MOCC).
> > 
> > It's encased in a grey steel case, with the color lcd attacked to the hinged 
> > lid.
> > 
> > It appears to be completely functional except for the fact that the removable 
> > HD and it's carrier are missing.  I'm sure I can rig something up, but I would 
> > really like to track down one of the originals.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Any help or suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > AL
> > 
> > 
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