[SunRescue] WTF is this?

[Michael C. Vergallen]

I would be interested in one of those if the price is right...
Michael
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Chris Petersen wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> 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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