Good story.

Kudos to Keven and thanks to Mark for sharing.

And you're in the right place if you have any questions about your "new toy".

At 01:32 AM 2009-03-07, Mark Davidson wrote:
>With all the doom and gloom in the news, with the daily announcements
>about the stock market and yes, with the messages coming through on
>the list about another 3000 being taken off-line, I thought I'd post
>some good news (at least, it's good news for me).
>
>Back in August, when I first joined the HP3000 list, I posted a
>message saying that if anyone ever had an inexpensive HP3000 for sale,
>please let me know.  To be honest, I figured that it would be a long
>time before anything I could afford would show up.
>
>Today, I am the proud owner of a beautiful HP3000 927LX, courtesy of
>Keven Miller ([log in to unmask]), who remembered my posting and for
>an *extremely* reasonable amount of money, shipped me the 927LX with
>MPE 6.0 and tapes for the tape drive (as well as a terminal).  To be
>honest, I am completely floored by his generosity and can't thank him
>enough.
>
>This is one machine I have always wanted to own; my experience with
>MPE has mostly been as a user (back in college, at the University of
>Tennessee at Chattanooga), so this is a new experience for me.
>
>I had enough time tonight to power up the machine and boot the OS, and
>here is a link to 2 photos showing my new baby. :)
>
>http://gallery.me.com/medavidson
>
>Keven, thank you so much... I've been on a hellish schedule at work
>and this machine (and your generosity) have made my week.
>
>Mark Davidson
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