[SunRescue] Old holdouts from the pits of hades.....

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I'd love one of the IBM MCA tower servers..  I've never seen one for a
rational price though.
	Nick

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> > I think your best bet will be an older thinkpad (486 variety), but if you
> > didn't like the sparcbook keyboard, you wouldn't like the thinkpad one
> > either...
> > 
> > I used to have an IBM P/75 with the awesome 486 DX/33 inside,a nd it was a
> > mean MCA machine.
> 
> I had thought about finding a P75.  They be a bit scarce in these parts,
> even with IBM in town.  IBM folks don't have many of those ancient things
> still around.  Maybe something at hamfests will turn up.  Our local ncsu
> network guys used to keep toshibas with the large displays and keyboards
> around, for netchecks, and I am hoping one of those will float out mooU
> surplus someday.  IFF a P75 should show up, I did keep all my usable
> hardware guts out of the old box, just in case......(:+\\...
> 
> Too bad the sparcbooks are such dogs on the keyboards, and so braindead
> in their software locks.  I have a second sparcbook2 but it needs some
> maintenance keys so I can get it to work.  Even the factory can't gen
> those maintenance keys, these days....I have been told the programs
> to do that can't be located.  Oh, well.  I guess laptops were designed
> for pointy-clicky users and not keyboardists.
> 
> Bob
> 
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