Well actually I didn't rescue them - they belonged to my father so i guess you can say I inherited them. He was a physicist and did quite a bit of Fortran development on them years ago. I worked with Suns at the time and so our worlds kind of merged and I ended up helping him with some problems he had and ended up learning some things about Apollos in the process. Plus he had a pretty decent documentation collection too which was very helpful. Eventually when he saw the end days for Apollo he scooped up all of the machines he could find and hoarded them away. He even managed to get ahold of the Apollos at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography lab when they scrapped them. I think i have about 15 of them in various states and I have a decent collection of spare parts. I did get rid of the monitors though since they were too much to deal with and they output fine on my flat-screen monitors with the right cabling. But yeah there sure doesn't seem to be very many people out there that have them anymore for whatever reason...Not the most attractive boxes and they are heavy as hell too!
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:59 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 4/7/21 1:16 AM, Kurt Nowak via cctalk wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Back after a long time away from this list... I happen to have a small > herd > > of Apollo DN3500/4500 boxen which i pulled out the other day to see if > they > > still run. > > I can't help with the date issue, but just wanted to say how nice it is to > hear that someone out there has rescued some Apollo stuff - there was > someone in one of the other vintage groups I'm in a couple of years back > who'd found one of their early machines (dn400 I believe), but that's the > only time I think I've seen mention of them in a very long time. > > I had access to a lab of 9000/425 machines in the mid 90s and that's what > got me hooked, then when I was at TNMoC prior to my moving over to the US > we had some 2500/3000/4000 systems that I looked at, but sadly those had > spent some time in damp conditions and weren't ever likely to work again - > the corrosion was just too bad. > > Jules >
