Welcome to Unix HQ - your Unix Headquarters for SUN, HP, IBM, and SGI workstations & now servers!
Used Unix systems generally sell for a premium as compared to their PC counterparts. They are relatively difficult to find because they have mostly catered to enterprise use rather than use by consumers. Amazingly enough, even the older machines (such as the HP 712/100, circa 1994) still perform well under the latest X-Window UNIX environments (such as HP-UX 11.0), making these affordable RISC systems an ideal platform to learn on. By comparison, a PC from the same era and having the same CPU speed (such as the Pentium 100) was quickly rendered obsolete by any post year 1999 Windows OS and thus is woefully inadequate today for anything but the most basic of use. Because the Internet by and large has always run on Unix, there will be strong demand for Unix systems for quite some time to come. Knowing Unix means you will have an advantage in the increasingly competitive I.T. job market.
