[rescue] WTB: Good 'antique' computer for education
Eric Hall
rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jul 26 20:38:34 CDT 2001
Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> But even worse, I have upwards of THIRTY DECstation-3100 boxes. And a
> few DECstation-5000s. I would like to find new homes for the majority
> of them. For the uninitiated, they are early MIPS R2000/R3000 based
> RISC workstations. The run Ultrix or NetBSD quite well, and make
> decent light-duty servers (running headless) or somewhat usable
> workstations with a bitmapped console.
>
There seem to be a lot of these kicking around. Will they run VMS?
If so, is getting one up and running as simple as acquiring an OpenVMS
license and media from Compaq?
Thanks, Eric H
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