bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) (06/23/89)
In article <18827@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> m3dj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (John Lacey) writes: >workstations. For political reasons, we need current, supported >machines, else something like the 3b1 would be perfect. Does anyone It may not be "current" (an eye-of-the-beholder thing), but the 3B1 is still supported by AT&T and can still be bought brand new with a standard AT&T 90-day warrantee and Hot Line support (hardware, software, or both). Current market price seems to be ~2 Kbucks. Your local friendly AT&T salesman will probably refuse to acknowledge this fact, since it is official AT&T policy to try to convince the world that AT&T not only does not provide this machine for sale now, but has never even heard of it! :-) But you can call the AT&T Hotline and verify this in a heartbeat. Or is there some very recent news that I haven't heard? :-) Bud Hovell USENET: ...!{sun!nosun|tektronix!percival}!whizz!{bbh|postmaster|sysadmin} USPO: McCormick & Hovell, Inc., PO Box 1812, Lake Oswego, OR USA 97035 MOTD: "Vote NO!"
m3dj@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (07/23/89)
I am part of a group from my school (Ohio Wesleyan, actually, and not Cornell) putting together a small network of workstations. I have been looking at Sun, 386 machines w/ SCO Xenix, PS/2 w/AIX, Mac w/ A/UX, and the NeXT. One thing I have not found, however, is plain ASCII UN*X workstations. For political reasons, we need current, supported machines, else something like the 3b1 would be perfect. Does anyone know of such a machine? I want one because the powers that be don't want to actually spend money on UN*X as it is, plus all I really do is program, and personally, I'd rather see other machines with the pretty graphics so that everyone will leave me alone with the UN*X boxes :-). Any info would be appreciated. Replies can be directed to the address below (the ones in the header are because pieces of the campus net here are down, and I can't get to the addresses below at the moment. John Lacey running unattached Internet: lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITnet: lacey@crnlthry UUCP: cornell!batcomputer!lacey