21 Jun
2019
21 Jun
'19
2:06 a.m.
I still have a rainbow or two and a lot of extra parts. If anyone is
interested, please contact me off list.\
Thanks, Paul
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:54 PM Warner Losh via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ray Jewhurst via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello all, I have been a student of computer
history for years but have
only learned how to use classic machines vicariously through emulation.
I
would really like to get my own classic computer
but I don't know where
to
begin. For one, I am on a very limited income
and two I don't have a lot
of space and finally I don't have much knowledge on the finer points of
the
older hardware i.e. terminals networking, etc. I
would really like a
Vaxstation but I have also considered a '90s workstation such as an SGI
Indy or a SparcStation. I am pretty fluent in both VMS and Unix so any
of
those would work. So where do I look besides
e-Bay? I see some
available
here but none near me. I'm in the Detroit
area. Any advice would be
appreciated. I do know that I do now want a Mac or old PC. I would like
something more exotic. (Although it might me neat to own a Rainbow.)
All the cool kids had DEC Rainbows... though to be honest, maybe I'm biased
since the DEC Rainbow 100B was my first computer and I'm currently on a DEC
Rainbow VENIX boondoggle trying too reconstruct frmo v7 and sys III sources
now available the original Venix 86R source code... :)
Though I'm sure all that other stuff is cool too...
Warner
P.S. I had a VMS Forever bumper sticker on my car for a few years thanks to
an ex-girlfriend that knew me tooo well :)