Old UNIX Systems

That depends heavily on the system and the person. Personally, I'm using SS20s as my main screen-and-keyboard machines, primarily because they let me use type-3 keyboards. Keyboards are intensely idiosyncratic, and the type-3 is my second-favourite of all the keyboards I've used (my first favourite was a Lisp Machine keyboard, and I've never ever found one since then-work stopped using those machines). I once tried using a type-3 on a peecee serial port with glue logic to fix up the signal levels. It worked, sort of. I had to butcher the X server's input code a bit, because it was not prepared to deal with Sun keyboards (as a peecee X server, this is not too surprising) and it was not prepared to deal with keyboards on serial ports. One of the casualties of this butchery was autorepeat, which was a significant issue for me. It probably would have been fixable, but.... ...secondarily, I'm using the SS20s because, in my experience, they are far more reliable than peecees. Third, I just plain like them better. Yes. If you just want computrons, pretty much everything on-topic for this list is of little-to-no use to you. And there you are. I feel that way about SPARCs, though it's not artwork in the visual sense, nor even the concrete sense, but in the CPU-architecture sense: it's just so much prettier an architecture than the horrors that have been perpetrated in the building of x86 CPUs. Not that MIPSen such as SGI used aren't. But I find the MIPS, while far nicer than x86, not as nice as the SPARC. (I freely admit this is a totally personal and totally aesthetic judgement call.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B