Usagi Electric is in Texas. He could make use of that thing.

We don't need to provide one man with every computer made before 1975. The rest of us would also like to have a chance to play with them.

Looks like a 980B. Pic from a DC-8 sim for reference.

https://i.imgur.com/b3py96N.jpeg

https://imgur.com/gallery/dc-8-simulator-xY7eS

Getting it working would probably be a massive challenge since it’s missing parts.

The 980 was used as the CPU in the Evans and Sutherland Novoview graphics system, part of a flight simulator.

The E and S rack was an 'image generator'. That one was called an SP1. I fondly remember the SP3T as being the pinnacle of that series; the T meant "texture processing".

image a computer display made up of 1000 line segments. that is what you would get. it was possible to buy these with an output that was not raster, rather it drew on the CRT with vector segments. incredible light points to simulate night landings.

Even if it was free, it sounds like it’s going to cost more than that to move and house these things

At the minimum you’d need a telehandler or forklift capable of lifting 20,000 lbs (according to the listing) which is probably $1,500 for one day with delivery and pickup, a flatbed semi trailer to load it on, and labor to load it. If the equipment isn’t on skids you can lift with a forklift, then you need riggers and a crane truck. Either way sounds fairly expensive, and that’s without having a place to move it to.

do you think it still runs?