Apollo Domain 3000 on ebay

[Mark Davidson]

I don't remember if this has been mentioned before, but what about
Domain/OS (is that what this machine runs)?

Mark

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>>
>> Seems reasonably priced at $99.99
>
> On the plus side:
>
>  1) it's the cleanest looking 3000 I've ever seen,
>
>  2) the seller's mention of video connectors shouldn't be an issue; it
> shouldn't prove a problem for any PC workstation display that supports SoG I
> would think.
>
> On the minus side:
>
>  1) hard disk and/or PSU and/or all manner of esoteric parts might be
> faulty,
>
>  2) I don't see any mention (surprise, surprise) of a Domain keyboard in the
> auction listing - what a pain if the seller actually does have it ("re-PC"
> suggests an equipment recycler) and have managed to lose it amongst a pile
> of other non-Apollo keyboards! :-(
>
> ... my gut feeling is that $50 would be nearer the mark for something that's
> untested and is missing its keyboard; it'd be good for someone who already
> had a complete DN3000 and wanted to make up a nice, working example along
> with a spares cache.
>
> (wonder where the seller got it from if they are just a recycler? The
> machine looks to have an ATR network board, and I bet it was rare anyway for
> a site to just buy a single Apollo - wherever it came from probably had a
> few originally)
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>