I was a student at HillcrestHighSchool but now attend Waikato University doing ComputerScience (BCMS).

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.

I am currently after:

• VAX and Alpha stuff - systems, parts, manuals, media
• an AUI cable to connect my vax to a 10base5/10baseT transceiver
• Any old unwanted SGI, Sun stuff
• an IBM RISC workstation
• a DEC MIPS system
• a PDP of some sort

I currently run on my network:

• Some generic boring PC machines and an old 68k apple or two
• An AlphaServer 1200 running OpenVMS 8.3
• a SPARCstation IPC running OpenBSD (debian wouldn't install on it)
• a SPARCstation 4 running Debian
• an Ultra 1 soon to be 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

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.

All of this stuff needs quite a bit of room so once this semesters exams are out of the way I will be clearing out some of the more boring machines. First up will be a pile of about 10 identical Compaq Prolinea 575e machines which can be used as print servers, etc.

I can be contacted via MSN or GoogleTalk during the afternoons and weekends or via email at anytime.

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