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Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Wed Mar 14 11:14:32 CDT 2018


so .... do the 3 macines go in the scrap pile ?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fx4Dw6RrQgVJBXWo1

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:54 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 2018-03-14 6:55 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm in the process of giving
> >> some of them away though because they take up too much room.
> >
> > The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end
> > VAXstations. I offered them a VAXstation 4000/60 (Red Hat offered to
> > sponsor shipping from London to Canada) but after some
> > toing-and-froing, Theo DeRaadt turned it down.
>
> OpenBSD can't support VAX-11 any longer, unless somebody implements TLS
> for that architecture (which I believe would need major toolchain work?)
>
> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160309192510
>
> That would explain why they no longer want VAX-11 hardware.
>
> --Toby
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, I believe RH has now lost my machine. :-(
> >
> > But if anyone is willing to donate a /90 or similar, he might be
> interested.
> >
>
>
>


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