17 May
2002
17 May
'02
11:12 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Smith [mailto:csmith@amdocs.com]
I'd love to have at least one of those. Don't
know if I'll have
the cash, though :/
That was actually supposed to go to Pat -- sorry guys.
Anyway, the jig is up now, I do like E&S. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
17 May
17 May
11:32 a.m.
New subject: drivel
I am just a little disappointed that the changes made to eliminate some
of the less enthralling bits from the list seem to have encouraged more
ill feeling and wasted spaced.
That aside, we received an interesting donation today, an HP700 with 660
drive, also a7580? plotter and a Decstation 5000. Also in the lot was a
"DEC 3000" Anyone familiar with this? Also we were given an Echo I
optical storage system. We were told it may have a Sun 1 cpu, Anyone
familair with this system?
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
11:40 a.m.
New subject: DEC 3000
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
That aside, we received an interesting donation today,
an HP700 with 660
drive, also a7580? plotter and a Decstation 5000. Also in the lot was a
"DEC 3000" Anyone familiar with this? Also we were given an Echo I
optical storage system. We were told it may have a Sun 1 cpu, Anyone
familair with this system?
We've got a DEC 3000 at the ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Resource
Center). So far it's been saved from the recycle bin but I'm not quite
sure what to do with it yet. More accurately, it's been sitting in
another part of the warehouse and hence is out of mind. It'll probably
end up going into the VCF Archives.
Sorry, don't know anything about it really.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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11:49 a.m.
New subject: DEC 3000
At 01:40 PM 5/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
It's an Alpha-based system, runs VMS, Tru64 and NetBSD at
least. There's some info at:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/models.html
GZ
That aside, we received an interesting donation
today, an HP700 with 660
drive, also a7580? plotter and a Decstation 5000. Also in the lot was a
"DEC 3000" Anyone familiar with this? Also we were given an Echo I
optical storage system. We were told it may have a Sun 1 cpu, Anyone
familair with this system?
We've got a DEC 3000 at the ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Resource
Center). So far it's been saved from the recycle bin but I'm not quite
sure what to do with it yet. More accurately, it's been sitting in
another part of the warehouse and hence is out of mind. It'll probably
end up going into the VCF Archives. 
12:07 p.m.
New subject: DEC 3000
On Friday 17 May 2002 21:49 pm, Gordon Zaft wrote:
It's an Alpha-based system, runs VMS,
Tru64 and NetBSD at
least.
There's also a Linux port project for it -
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~prescott/linux/alpha/dec3000-port.html
I've got a 3000 300L (64Mb RAM and 400ish Mb hard drive), and a 3000 400
(96Mb RAM, 1Gb hard drive, CD drive). At the moment (thanks to David W.
for giving me the correct mount options), the 400 has a seemingly-working
Digital Unix install, which I'll probably keep to play with.
The 300 also has a Digital Unix install, but it's pretty much unrescuable,
needing a reinstall. (A lot of essential directories are apparently on a
second drive that I don't have). I was going to get a VMS/Alpha CD, and
turn it into a VMS system - would 400Mb hard drive be enough to have a
working VMS + DECWindows + Multinet (and various useful internet
programs, like IRC ;-)? Also, would there be any potential problems with
simply pulling the CD drive out of my 3000/400, sticking it into the
3000/300L, and booting VMS from the CD?
Dan
--
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much
better.
-- Laurie Anderson
11:51 a.m.
New subject: drivel
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
That aside, we received an interesting donation today,
an HP700 with 660
drive, also a7580? plotter and a Decstation 5000. Also in the lot was a
"DEC 3000" Anyone familiar with this? Also we were given an Echo I
optical storage system. We were told it may have a Sun 1 cpu, Anyone
familair with this system?
Is it a Dec 3000/300? If so it's an alpha. Nice little computer. I
really like mine except it desperately needs a motherboard replacement.
--
-Linc Fessenden
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
11:33 a.m.
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
I once saw the weirdest E&S card. It had an external power connector with
instructions that to remove the card, power must be applied to that connector.
It had some kind of thermal card slot clamping mechanism, I think the card was
conductions cooled through the card slot...
Peter Wallace
-----Original
Message-----
From: Christopher Smith [mailto:csmith@amdocs.com]
I'd love to have at least one of those.
Don't know if I'll have
the cash, though :/
That was actually supposed to go to Pat -- sorry guys.
Anyway, the jig is up now, I do like E&S. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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