9 Apr
1999
9 Apr
'99
6:07 p.m.
On 9 Apr 99, at 18:43, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
So far as I've been able to tell, there isn't
a DG newsgroup of any sort
(hardware or software). It's that "odd" market presence at work, I think.
Not a DG newsgroup in sight on my server. Would have thought
there'd be one at least.
Nobody I can think of buys DG kit, save the US Forest
Service, and they
are moving away from their Eclipse installations (to IBM kit, I believe).
And yet.. this stuff is out there. I never see it for sale. DG have
existed for thirty years selling SOMETHING.
Well, I also have a Nova but it is just the case. No boards inside at
all. I'd love to find some and bring it back to life but don't hold
much hope. :-(
That and to summarily proceed to be shocked at the
prices they seemed to
be able to get away with asking for this ancient cruft.
Yes, one wanted almost $3000 for a similar but smaller model of
the system I picked up today. Surprised me.
I have a large quantity of OS and software tapes that
I would be ok with
making limited copies of (as they're out of their support life),
especially as there is something about people porting linux to oddball
stuff like this that already had some sort of UNIX OS established on it
that really squicks me.
My main interest in a Linux or other *NIX port would be the fact that
I don't have install media for this system. If my drive dies, I'm out
of luck. If I could arrange some backup copies from you then I
have less need for some alternate OS. Of course the other reason
would be the lack of updates. Which version of DG/UX it has I
don't recall at the moment. After I get it home tonight I can hook it
to my network and bring it back up and check it out.
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
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