8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
5:48 a.m.
What is it? it sounds interesting...
Iggy Drougge said:
Got this on another list. You could run ULTRIX on it.
I could supply a CD
image if necessary.
From: "Erik Bennett"
<bennett(a)research.or.com>
To: port-pmax(a)netbsd.org
Subject: DECSystem 5900
Date: 7 Nov 2001 03:16:50 GMT
I've got a DECSystem 5900 that's needing a home. It's got 2 of the
32MB memory modules. It's the slower chip, but I can't recall the MHz.
I got it at an auction when buying a rack and was surprised to find it
in there.
It *seemed* to power up OK (20 amp 120VAC power suppy included).
I was going to load BSD on it, but I can't see how I'm going to get to
it in this lifetime. It looks like it's got a couple of WREN drives
in it, but I can't be sure.
Let me know if anyone's interested. It'd be a crime to see a machine
this heavy go to waste.
-Erik
Erik Bennett bennett(a)corp.or.com
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan