Re: Hobbyists passing through Oklahoma City?



Chris Scheers <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Tad Winters wrote:
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Tad Winters wrote:
Are there any OpenVMS hobbyists (or wannabes) even passing through
Oklahoma City in the next couple of weeks? I have FREE hardware
available!! If you don't want to email me, at least respond here.
You might wish to describe what hardware would be available to
pickup. This might interest some further away who would be willing
to pay for shipping.


Shipping is not a possibility. The hardware must be picked up. If it
was up to me, I'd ship it, or rather keep it for myself. However,
I'm just arranging for its pickup, since I'm in Oregon.

So what hardware is available?

I have clients that go through OKC periodically who might be able to
pick up something for me.


It's an AlphaServer DS20 500MHz, with no disk drives. I realize this is
rather large for some people, but it's quite a bit more speed for those who
have only had a MicroVAX or a VAXstation. I'm sure you want more detail.
The system is not up (and I'm not there,) so I'm just going from memory
when I configured it years ago. I'm thinking it has at least 512 MB of
memory. The StorageWorks backplane is split to 2 channels of a KZPAC (3-
channel RAID controller.) It has a VGA adapter (Elsa I think.) They CD-
ROM drive may be attached to the mainboard SCSI controller, unless it was
unsupported, in which case it would be attached to a KZPBA. If they didn't
keep the tape drive, it's probably an Exabyte Mammoth. I'm almost sure it
has redundant power supplies. It would have a least a DE50x NIC.
.



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