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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 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 but generaly, if its free and in reasonably good condition (or has useful parts) i will take it. In my current collection I currently have 3 Venturis 575s, a dead Venturis FX-2, some DECpc's, a big pile of Prolinea 575e's and Deskpro 2000s, some random generic machines, a few compaq servers (PL850R, PL1500R, somthing else), a DECserver 100 (what ever that is) and some other junk
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+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 but generaly, if its free and in reasonably good condition (or has useful parts) i will take it.
-The network is currently run off
a Compaq PL850R runing Netware 4.11 along with a few prolinea 575's
that work nicely
as linux print servers off 16MB ram
and a few mb hdd space
. Smoothwall
on a Deskpro 4000 connects
my 56k modem
to my network
.
+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, SUN, SGI, etc. So, if you have a VAX (or anything else (software, documentation, etc) by Digital, SUN, SGI, etc) you dont want, you know who
to go to :).
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+Current operating systems I am looking to try out and learn about (in priority) are VMS VAX (older versions), Ultrix, Digital UNIX (Tru64), OpenVMS AXP and NetBSD. I dont 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 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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