[rescue] Looking for AT&T 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 software

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Sat Oct 11 11:05:17 CDT 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
> Behalf Of James Birdsall
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:30 AM
> To: The Rescue List
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Looking for AT&T 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 software
> 
> Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> > Looking for diskette images of the OS, development,
> > tcp/ip/ethernet, diagnostic diskette, etc....
> >
> > -- Curt
> > _______________________________________________
> > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> I have the software and a 3B1+ethernet to go with. It was the first
> Unix
> box I ever owned, and the original picarefy.picarefy.com (and prior to
> that, ...!picarefy!...) eighteen years ago. I hate to give it away but
> I
> don't really have a use for it anymore; with the security situation
> being what it is, unless a machine can run a current, maintained OS
> (*BSD[1] or Linux), putting it up on the net is just asking for
> trouble,
> and besides current software packages (like Apache, etc.) won't compile
> on something that old anyway...

James, I think by now that box should have ventured into the realm of
"security through obscurity", having passed through "Insecurity through lack
of updates" ;^)

Lionel



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