> The HP has a taker meanwhile. It's Lee in Sunnyvale all the
> way out in California. I don't know how large it is and
> if we should ask Brian to pick it up anyway to bring to
> NY. There appears to be a second HP3000 (micro 3000 XE)
> from Stan, also in NJ. Don't know if this is the identical
> machine (unlikely.) I don't even know what kind of
> machine this is anyway, all I know are HP vectra PCs and
> HP Apollo 9000 PA-RISC workstations (not sure about the
> 9000).

Well, you can have an idea by looking to the guts of a 
HP 9000/835 owned by a friend of mine. 
http://pricorde.free.fr/museum/ul.html
Very nice machinery. And very high quality hardware

But maybe the 9000/48 is much more ancient, if it was with PDPs...
And I can't find any reference on 9000/48, is there a typo ?

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