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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 but now attend 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 semi-recently developed 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:
+*
[VAX] and
Alpha stuff - systems
, parts
, manuals
, media
+* Any old unwanted
SGI, Sun stuff
+* an IBM RISC workstation
+*
a [DEC] MIPS system
+* a PDP of some sort
-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
+* a SPARCstation IPC & IPX running [OpenBSD] 4.1 and 4.3
(debian wouldn't install on them)
+*
a SPARCstation 4 running
[Debian
]
+* 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 soon
to be running Debian
+Once it has been cleaned up
and checked over, a MicroVAX 3500 will be joining my network soonish if it works properly. Then I will have something
to use my
[DECserver
] with
.
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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