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

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jul 27 03:13:04 CDT 2001


On July 26, Mike Free 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.
...
> 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 :)

  Laurel, MD, just north of Washington DC.

    -Dave McGuire



More information about the rescue mailing list