[rescue] WTB: Good 'antique' computer for education

[Mike Free]

I'll be happy to host a home for one or two DEC's. May go along with a bid i
just made on a VAXstation 3100 if I win. Where is all this located? I do
enjoy picking up equipment :)

Mike Free
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hall" <jester_123 at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] WTB: Good 'antique' computer for education


> 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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