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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
.
+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.
-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|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 can be contacted via MSN or GoogleTalk during the afternoons and weekends or via email [
mailto:dgsoftnz@gmail.com] at anytime.
+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 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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