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

[Brian Hechinger]

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

no, the DECstations don't run VMS, only VAX and ALPHA CPUs are supported by
VMS.

> If so, is getting one up and running as simple as acquiring an OpenVMS
> license and media from Compaq?

yes.  www.decus.org  although you usually have to call them, they can be very
unorganized.

-brian