[rescue] DEC 5000?

Matthew Haas rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 13 11:46:26 CST 2001


On 13 Dec 2001, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 11:24, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:09:40AM -0500, Mike Katchabaw wrote:
> > > Sadly, no one we can find knows a whole lot about the front end, other
> > > than it was a DEC 5000.  From what I can find, it's neither an Alpha
> > > nor a VAX, but rather some kind of MIPS RISC system.  Is that correct?
> >
> > The DEC 5000 that you talk about is a Decstation 5000.  It was a stop gap from
> > Digital until they could complete the Alpha.  Anyway, it does use a MIPS r3000
> > processor.  They are fairly common, but I just gave mine away about a month
> > ago.  Other people of this probably have them though.
>
> I might be able to get one (cheaply) if you're interested.
>

I've got a pile of at least 4-5 of these things (and that's about 2-3 more
than needed)... once the memory configuration is figured out, they can be
had for pickup or probably just shipping cost.

-Matthew



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