5 Nov
2011
5 Nov
'11
8:45 p.m.
On 11/05/2011 11:18 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
(Note how he said "accessible to the net"...I never claimed that!
But I do know where there are three VMS 5 machines in daily use, at a
former place of employment. They're in a SCIF. One of them is a
MicroVAX-II.)
> OK point
me to a 5 box that is accessible to the net. Are there even any
> 7 ones ? I have a Sun 2/210 here. I'm not going to put it outside my
Wait wait wait a Sun 2? *sigh* OK you win. I've only SEEN one, but I heard
of a bunch of a dozen
or so being scrapped around 10 years ago.
That sucks. I've got a small pile of Sun2 Multibus boards left, but
no machines. A looong time ago my home fileserver was a Sun2/170 with
two NEC D2532H 520MB SMD drives on it. It was awesome. I ran a 2/120
briefly but quickly upgraded it to a 3/50.
Years later I sold the 2/170 chassis (just the chassis, there was no
"classic" or "collector" value then) to a friend who had a board set
for
a Cisco AGS router, also Multibus. He built a Franken-AGS in the
2/170's backplane.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA