25 Apr
2018
25 Apr
'18
7:34 a.m.
Almost forgot. In another location are 5 to 6 DEC disk arrays, most filled
with 14 disks. 3 went with one of the DSs, thats why the dual
SCSI cards. There are at least 20-40 loose disks from 36 to 300 GB. Some
never used, boxes of SCSI cables etc.
It will just take time.
-pete
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>
wrote:
I am glad they got rescued.
On the Alpha stuff, I will over the next month, put all the Tru64 and
OpenVMS CD sets, documentation and hardware licenses into on pile.
I would like to find a destination that will / can redistribute the CD's
etc. I don't want to them and the licenses get
put into the hands of one individual and never to be seen again.
Suggestions ?
-pete
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
For those follow the rescue of equipment from
Pete Lancashire's place
outside of Portland ...
I went out there last Friday. Pete was unavailable, so a friend of his
let me and showed me where to avoid stepping.
The amount of stuff there was impressive/amazing/overwhelming. Aside
from the test equipment and old telecom equipment that was pointed out when
I was shown around, it was hard to focus on one thing because I would
immediately see something else interesting that grabbed my attention.
I picked up seven Sun SPARC systems and three Compaq-branded Alpha
systems.
The Alpha systems all went to a local (Seattle) person who is talking to
Bill Gunshannon about possibly getting one out to him. One of the Alphas
was a DS20 deskside and I never figured out what the other two were. They
were narrower and longer than the DS20. There were also some loose 72G
Ultra3 SCSI HDDs.
The Suns were a SS1, SS2, two SS5s (one with a Netra top cover), two
SS20s (one with its cover removed and MBus card and memory lying near it)
and a SS1+ "prototype". I am keeping the SS1+ and a SS5. I have found a
home for a couple more of them and will be looking for a home for the rest.
The SS20s are the most problematic. As you would expect from a system
with its top cover missing, one of the SS20s does not display any
diagnostic output or get to the OBP prompt after being powered on. The
"good" one displays a "replace motherboard" message while going
through its
diagnostics.
Also, as you might expect, the one called a prototype was the most
interesting to me. I am a long-time Sun employee and, while I wasn't around
when the SS1+ was developed, I know people who were. It isn't like any
prototype that they knew of. Still trying to figure out exactly what it is.
The top cover is metal and slides over the chassis (not plastic and pivots
into place like a SS1+. There are no external markings on it. It has a Sun
SS1+ motherboard, Sun0424 HDDs, and uses SS1/SS1+/SS2 HDD carriers, but has
a Sony (not Sun) labeled power supply.
As far as the 029 keypunch, it is still there. There was some confusion
and the people who were supposed to come get it didn't. I have described to
them where it is and how I would go about removing it.
alan