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

[joshua d boyd]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:38:34PM -0500, Eric Hall wrote:
> 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?

Sorry dude.  The DECstations are MIPS chips.  They were meant as a stop
gap until the Alpha was ready.  VMS was never ported.  The machines should
be nice, but I think the serial port is bad on the DECstation I
bought.  Sigh.  At the rate I'm going I'll probably just give the machine
to someone who needs parts one of these days.  As soon as I get a
replacement r3k machine (say a 4D machine).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd