24 Oct
2012
24 Oct
'12
3:14 a.m.
On 10/23/2012 06:55 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On-topic, if you're hurting for VAXen, I can free up a 4000-series
machine.
Mmm, I think i'd do better here than finding a VAX on ebay,
There are more VAXen here than on eBay. ;)
which 4000-series model in particular?
I have...many. I'll have to check to be more specific. I also have
several desktop VAXen, like 3100 series machines. I have some 4000/60s
and 4000/90s, but I'll be hanging onto those.
Also do you happen to have drives
for one? All I have spare are some 16G 5.25" SCA SCSI drives +
adapters for fast SCSI. Also, if you happen to have any adapters for
MMJ as I don't have any real terminals, that'd be nice, too.
Well these would generally use DSSI drives, unless you can score a
Qbus SCSI host adapter. I might be able to free up one DSSI drive, but
that'd cost you...they're drying up fast, and I've got machines to keep
running.
I can spare you an MMJ adapter or two.
Off toppic, and off the top of my head, probably a dozen racks'
worth of comparatively recent Sun hardware. And Crays. These
would involve some serious swappage, though.
Have any pentium-era systems? I need something to run Slackware 4.0
on for openlook.
Maybe, but I've never been much into PC hardware...200+ machines here
and maybe six of them are PCs. We'll see what we can dig up, though.
Clean out your car and pick a weekend, man! (or a weekday..) My lady's
a chef; I'll sweet-talk her into whipping us up something tasty.
(You have no idea how hard it is to get this working
in a VM ).
Oh yes I do. ;) I virtualized a gaggle of SCO OpenServer machines for
a customer about two years ago, using VMware. Oh man that was a
mess...VMware was the only virtualization platform that would work, and
even that took some doing. They're all still running, though, but now
on VERY different hardware. :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA