*FREE* [SYD] Old DEC hardware *FREE*

I have some old DEC hardware to give away :

2 x 19" colour display ( a VR290 and a VR299, low resolution ).
These are sync-on-green, 3 BNC connector, big and heavy.
Can be used with older Sun boxes too, I think.

3 x VAXstation 3100 ( only one working ), with old-style keyboards
plus 2 motherboards, also in need of some fix. No mice.
These boxes can run any of the BSD variety Unix stuff too,
I think.

1 x External storage box for the VAXstations, SZ-something. It has
a disk drive in it ( few hundred MB, plus an old tapedrive )

If you are interested, call me on 0409 320 555.
Cheers, Csaba

 

Have you run it by John Geremin at the Australian Computer Museum to see
if they might be interested, or know someone who would look after it?
http://www.acms.org.au/

--
Terry Collins {}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www:
http://www.woa.com.au
Wombat Outdoor Adventures <Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing,
Publishing>

"People without trees are like fish without clean water"

 

Yes, of course. He took a lot of smaller stuff, these are left
over. Anyway, they are dumped now as no one put up his/her hand
for them. It's a shame, really, but such is life.

Cheers, Csaba

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Rhode's Corollary to Hoare's Law :
Inside every complex and unworkable program is a useful routine
struggling to be free.

 

Phaeton wrote:

...snip....

I am doing that all the time. There is only so much you can keep in
limited storage. Hmm, if I known the tape drive was going to be ditched,
I would have taken it for the motors.

Shock of the week was to strip a HP3si (all screws and folded sheet
metal) and find "the problem" right after 99% of the screws were taken
out. It is real turmoil- will I try to put it back together and get it
working or just accept that it is past its time? Full toner cartridge
too - bummer.

 

Some years ago when the SR-72 was interned with full honours, we
wondered if we should salvage the drive motors (8") to make an
electric lawn mower.

More recently, the now-retired gardener told me he used a PC power
supply to power his car fridge when camped at caravan parks.

Just Murphy's Law. ;-)


Cheers, Phred.