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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:
+* a [DEC] MIPS system
+* a PDP
of some sort (PDP-11 or PDP-8 would be easiest
I suppose)
+* a monitor for a VAXstation 4000
+* [VAX] and Alpha stuff
- systems, parts, manuals, media
+* Any old unwanted SGI, Sun
and IBM RS
/6000 stuff
+
+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 AlphaStation 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.
+A sun Netra T1 running Debian will also join the network once some weird fan problem has been sorted out
.
-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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