29 Feb
2008
29 Feb
'08
12:51 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
These days if I don't have a good use for it, I don't buy it. Basically the
only non-PC/Mac hardware I've purchased in the last 4-5 years has been 2
Compaq XP1000's (for running OpenVMS), and a 3rd party Commodore 64
repairable powersupply. There are a couple Commodore 64 and Apple ][ items
that given the chance I'd get, same with select OpenVMS and PDP-11 stuff.
Other than that, I'm pretty much out of the collecting game. I don't have
the time to play with the stuff I have, so why get more.
Zane
awesome. It is a shame SGI killed the MIPS
systems and IRIX. I'd love to
own something like the SGI Tezro workstation, but can't see spending any
more on the platform. I don't even remember the last time I powered one of
the systems up. :^(
I have a Tezro, which I bought because people in industry are thinking
exactly the same as you, so they're going cheap. I can vouch for the
fact that they are startlingly fast.
Peace... Sridhar