FTGH Decstation 5000

Seth Morabito web at loomcom.com
Tue Oct 22 09:15:31 CDT 2019


On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, at 12:24 AM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote:
> FTGH Decstation 5000
> 
> * Decstation 5000/125 - also houses a CD drive
> * 2 Expansion storage boxes - one has a tape drive and the other one has a
> floppy drive.
> * 2 very large and heavy RGB Digital monitors - one has both Digital and
> Sony branding on the back of it. I haven't dug the other one out as it's in
> a corner and is dam heavy but it looks the same as the other one.
> * A box of spares including a keyboard, two mice, a CD drive, some cables, a
> couple of CPU's, three genuine HDDs and a big bag of RAM

Oh, memories. I do hope someone (who is not me) rescues this. A cluster of three DECstation 5000s running Ultrix 4.2a was my first introduction to UNIX when I arrived at Cornell University in 1992. They're dreadful machines, but very nostalgic for me.

-Seth
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  Seth Morabito
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