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

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Gahh, r3k?  Well at least it's not an r2k.  I much prefer R10k, but then
I'm spoiled.
	Nick

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:

> 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
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