Former NASA Amiga 2500
A friend of mine sent me this eBay link...an Amiga 2500 formerly used by NASA as a telemetry lab workhorse. Interesting! The $5,000 pricetag seems ridiculous to me, but who knows...maybe someone out there will find it reasonable. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-2500-NASA-Telemetry-Lab/183241576598?hash=ite...
Every time I visited NASA for work in the last 10 years I asked around to see if anyone knew anything about the "NASA Amigas" but never had any luck. I'm glad someone snuck one of these out .. We could try writing the guy to see if he'd donate to a museum? On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:49 PM, CJ Reha via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
A friend of mine sent me this eBay link...an Amiga 2500 formerly used by NASA as a telemetry lab workhorse. Interesting! The $5,000 pricetag seems ridiculous to me, but who knows...maybe someone out there will find it reasonable.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-2500-NASA-Telemetry-Lab/183241576598?hash= item2aaa0c9096:g:B6AAAOSwnCFaElCi
A friend of mine sent me this eBay link...an Amiga 2500 formerly used by NASA as a telemetry lab workhorse. Interesting! The $5,000 pricetag seems ridiculous to me, but who knows...maybe someone out there will find it reasonable.
Waited to reply to this, but I used to work at NASA Langley (as well as their auctions :-) and a good friend of mine did a lot of NASA surplus auctions. At one point in time he got a bunch of Atari 8bit stuff that once was used in a flight sim I belive to drive displays. He got a bunch of Atari ST equipment from a NASA auction that was used for unknown reasons. I have the TT030 and Mega 2 on long term loan :-) Neither fully worked but I have them running now. I did see BeBox cardboard boxes with other stuff in it at auctions, so there were BeBox systems on center somewhere. In the place I worked, I was mostly an IRIX and Solaris admin. Our hardware included SGI Origin 3800 96proc 64GB 7TB, Origin 2000s, SGI Challenge XLs, Ls, Sun E3K, Sun E4500, Sun E6800, various storage systems. Early days there was also HP UX on a few hosts and towards the end when I was there a single IBM RS/6000 box that was kind of a waste. I have pictures from some of the auctions even. My first auction there was a Convex C220 or something. In those days I was mostly after ion and yag (532nm) laser systems, SGI and Sun hardware. Was starry eyed for Cray hardware. I ended up with some Macintosh stuff from the auctions as well. Good times. Then the internet ruined my goldmine. Damn you online auctions and the rich bidders you brought. - Ethan
Speaking of NASA, I have a friend in Florida who has a drink maker made as a retirement gift to an engineer on the Apollo. It uses Apollo parts (the metal fittings and pipes) and has a computer on the bottom. labeled inivac 60 Don't know much about it besides it did work at some point in time. You could dial in how strong you wanted the drink, and it has two cassette players in the back wired in so it would play music while it created the drink. On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
A friend of mine sent me this eBay link...an Amiga 2500 formerly used by
NASA as a telemetry lab workhorse. Interesting! The $5,000 pricetag seems ridiculous to me, but who knows...maybe someone out there will find it reasonable.
Waited to reply to this, but I used to work at NASA Langley (as well as their auctions :-) and a good friend of mine did a lot of NASA surplus auctions.
At one point in time he got a bunch of Atari 8bit stuff that once was used in a flight sim I belive to drive displays.
He got a bunch of Atari ST equipment from a NASA auction that was used for unknown reasons. I have the TT030 and Mega 2 on long term loan :-) Neither fully worked but I have them running now.
I did see BeBox cardboard boxes with other stuff in it at auctions, so there were BeBox systems on center somewhere.
In the place I worked, I was mostly an IRIX and Solaris admin. Our hardware included SGI Origin 3800 96proc 64GB 7TB, Origin 2000s, SGI Challenge XLs, Ls, Sun E3K, Sun E4500, Sun E6800, various storage systems. Early days there was also HP UX on a few hosts and towards the end when I was there a single IBM RS/6000 box that was kind of a waste.
I have pictures from some of the auctions even. My first auction there was a Convex C220 or something.
In those days I was mostly after ion and yag (532nm) laser systems, SGI and Sun hardware. Was starry eyed for Cray hardware.
I ended up with some Macintosh stuff from the auctions as well.
Good times. Then the internet ruined my goldmine. Damn you online auctions and the rich bidders you brought.
- Ethan
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