[SunRescue] SparcCenter 2000 on ebay!

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Dude, when you said vector terminal, I realized who you were.  I love your
postscript art.  Especially the brass works.  

So, since you do your work in raw postscript, what do you use the vector
terms for?  Personally, I'm more of a raster guy.  Two of my dream
aquisitions would be a Pixar Image Computer and an Iris 1000.  I know that
vector terms was still considered pretty spiffy at the time the Iris came
out, but that was still probably near the begining of the end for the
machines.

Oh, by the way, I've heard of more than one musician who networked
synthesizers and samplers together using a SCSI setup like you did with
the RS/6000 and VAXstation. 

As a more general thing, at a time when raster terminals where 10 to 20
thousand dollars, why didn't we hear more about PCs, Macs, Ataris, etc,
being used as graphics terminals?  That seems natural to me.  I actually
spent awhile fiddling with the idea, although I was doing it at a time
when the PC was far more powerful than the mini it was connected.

Anyway, I limit myself to machines that I intend to use.  I have to admit
that I have 4 boxes that I'm not currently using.  Two of them are broken
(Sun3 and Decstation), and two just been haven't been put back to use
since they got replaced.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 25 May 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> I try to keep my home collection down to what I use (RS/6000,
> buncha sparcs, and a vaxstation) plus my vector graphics terminal
> collection.
> 
> A tiny collection of early suns has been creeping up, but I've
> kept it to a minimum...
> 
> Oh, and a PDP-11 or two, and a few other small machines.
> 
> -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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