Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: responses to wkstation query Date: 12 May 2018 19:13:41 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <0b82ecd0-67e7-4b10-9c9b-df7951386349@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net JiaR8T5AQOBY18YLTYUC9w15n7JGnP1LyjFzIHLFGMWeAU+JTI Cancel-Lock: sha1:qENrM1rtvVOdjWTO/SH+GPFneDY= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.xerox:102 On 2018-05-12, RP Sobek wrote: > On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 4:55:26 PM UTC+2, Al Kossow wrote: >> On 4/11/18 6:07 AM, RP Sobek wrote: >> >> > Do you still have any 1186 available for me ??? >> >> replying to 30 year old messages is pointless. >> >> what are you willing to pay for a working 1186? > > Not sure yet? What do you think it is worth now ??? > > Somebody once offered me a garage full of 1186's and 6085's but I lost the lady's email address !! All I know is that she is East Coast and she recovered them from her University! > > Is yours with those LISP ROMs ?? Nothing to do with ROMs. The 1186 was 'just' a 6085 with different microcode; all done in software. You could boot the same hardware into InterLISP or Viewpoint. And I'm afraid I threw my 6085s away. -- Today is Boomtime, the 59th day of Discord in the YOLD 3184 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.