scollins@uswat.uswest.com (Steven Collins) (08/15/90)
Could some body give me an idea of how much these systems are worth? Maybe used as X-Terminals if nothing else. I know sqwat about Apollos. Apollo DN660 4 Meg Memory 1024x768 19" color Apollo DN660 4 Meg Memory 1024x768 19" color 300MB Drive Apollo/Mentor DN660 8 Meg Memory 1280x1024 19" color 300MB Drive scollins@lookout.uswest.com HOME: (303) 682-2204 MST
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (08/15/90)
Apollo DN660 are worth exactly $0. We had several DN460/660 nodes which we just got rid of. We tried about 3 or 4 used computer dealers and/or brokers who all told us that the cost of shipping the machines exceeded their value as spare parts. The one exception to this is if you already have several of these machines and need a couple more to strip for spares. These machines have roughly the same performance as a DN3000 (12 Mhz 68020 with 12 Mhz 68881 FPU) for integer and single precision floating point work. For double precision work they are roughly 1/2 the speed of the DN3000. The 4 MB machines would not be usable as X terminals. Apollo's X server which is included with SR10.2 needs at least 8 MB for decent performance. These machines are 5 to 6 years old, and are Motorola 68010/68020 compatible custom built CPUs. In the Apollo workstation market, if more than 3 years have elapsed since the product was introduced, it is considered marginally obsolete (even though you may have bought yours brand new only 18 months ago). A 5 year old product is virtually unsupported. Believe me -- I ran some of these nodes under SR10.2. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)