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-I was a student at HillcrestHighSchool for about 5 years
and completed 7th form in 2005. I will be attending WaikatoUniversity in 2006
doing ComputerScience (BCMS) using the scholarship I aquired late 2005
.
+I was a student at HillcrestHighSchool and then Waikato University
doing ComputerScience (BCMS).
-I generaly tend to aquire computers that people are throwing out
and use them for
parts or on my network
for doing various things
. I prefer computers and hardware produced by
[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC
] but generaly, if it's free and in reasonably good condition (or has useful parts) i will take it
.
+I have an interest in old RISC machines ([DEC], SunMicrosystems, [SGI], etc)
and am now trying to get my hands on any
parts, software
or documentation
for such systems
. I have also recently been experimenting with
[VMS
] but still need more hardware/media/documentation - especially smaller desktop sized systems
.
-There are a number of things which I am looking to aquire so that I can learn as much as I can about them. Most of the stuff
I am after were higher-end systems from the 80s/early 90s and software/documentation for such systems. Highest on my list is
a [VAX
] followed by a DECstation [
MIPS], an [Alpha], followed by anything made by [Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC], [SUN|SunMicrosystems], [SGI], etc. So, if you have
a [VAX]
(or anything else (software, documentation, etc
) by
[DEC
], [SUN|SunMicrosystems]
, [
SGI]
, etc) you dont want, you know who to go to :).
+I am currently
after:
+*
a [DEC
] MIPS system
+*
a PDP of some sort
(PDP-11
or PDP-8 would be easiest I suppose
)
+*
[VAX
] and Alpha stuff - systems
, parts
, manuals, media
+* Any old unwanted
SGI, Sun and IBM RS/6000 stuff
-Current operating systems
I am looking to try out
and learn about (in priority) are
[VMS
] [VAX] (older versions), Ultrix, Digital UNIX (Tru64),
[OpenVMS] for AXP
and [NetBSD
]. I don't have the hardware to run the first
4 (need a
[VAX], DECstation [MIPS
] and an
[Alpha]) and I am
currently trying to get parts to repair
an old
SPARCstation IPC (battery dead and is built-in to the
[NVRAM
] chip) to run
[NetBSD
].
+I currently run on my network:
+* Some generic boring PC machines
and an old 68k apple or two
+* An
[Alpha
]Server 1200 running
[OpenVMS] 8.3
and [Tru64
] 5
.1B-
4
+* An
[Alpha
]Server 800 running OpenVMS 8.3
and another one which will probably run Linux sometime
+* Two
[Alpha]Station 200s (both 4/166 models)
+* Two MicroVAX 3500s running VMS 7.3 (one with an upgraded CPU making it a 3800
) and a DECserver 100
+* a VAXstation 4000/60 running VMS 7.3
+* an IBM RS/6000 7248
currently running [AIX] 4.2
+*
an HP 9000 D380 running [HPUX] 10.20
+* a
SPARCstation IPC & IPX running
[OpenBSD
] acting as my monitor stand
+* a SPARCstation 4 running
[Solaris
] 2.6
+* an Ultra 1 running Debian with a differential SCSI SBus card
+* an Ultra 1 Creator running [Solaris] 9 with a SunVideo SBus video capture card
+* an [SGI] Indy running [IRIX] 6.5, another one running IRIX 5.3 and a third running NetBSD 4
.
I can be contacted via [MSN] or GoogleTalk during the afternoons and weekends or [via email | mailto:dgsoftnz@gmail.com] at anytime.
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