Re: Looking for DEC hardware in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and England

From: Hans Vlems (hvlems.dotweg_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 06/15/04

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    "Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply" <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de>
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    > Looking for DEC hardware in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium
    > and England. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be
    > interested.
    >
    > I will be in England for a few days in August. As I will be out of
    > contact with cyberspace for almost all of July, I'm posting this now and
    > of course need feedback by the end of June.
    >
    > The last two weeks in July I will be in Sweden. Travel plans aren't
    > firm yet, so if you have something I might want, let me know! I'll be
    > passing through Denmark on the way to Sweden; again, travel plans are
    > not yet firm.
    >
    > For details on England, the Netherlands and Belgium, see the end of this
    > post.
    >
    > I'm looking for DEC hardware. I have "enough" in some sense, but I do
    > need replacement parts for things which fail etc. Of course, I might
    > decide I need to increase the size of my cluster at some point. In any
    > case, anything I collect will be used, will be waiting to be used or, if
    > I really don't need it anymore, will go to a good home.
    >
    > Here's what I'm looking for:
    >
    > "Computers": any desktop or "minitower" ALPHA, any desktop VAX or
    > VAXstation 4000
    >
    > memory: while it's doubtful that someone would have bare memory, I'm
    > interested if I have a system it will work in
    >
    > hard disks: any SBB disk 1GB or larger (RZ26, RZ28, RZ29)---9-GB or
    > 18-GB SBB disks would be especially welcome, "internal" disks 1GB or
    > larger, especially 9GB
    >
    > CD-ROM drives
    >
    > CD-ROM drives and disks should be SCSI, though DSSI might be interesting
    > if 1 GB or more
    >
    > colour monitors: especially the somewhat older ones which have BNC
    > connectors (RBG) for the monitor and three round plugs for the graphics
    > card (the plugs are smaller than BNC connectors, but much larger than
    > the pins in other plugs)
    >
    > cables: SCSI, MMJ serial cables
    >
    > switches, hubs, repeaters etc
    >
    > paper documentation: VMS 7.x
    >
    > Essentially, I am looking for used equipment which is no longer needed
    > which the owner/maintainer would like to see go to a good home rather
    > than be scrapped. However, for some things I might be willing to pay a
    > small fee. I also have an ALPHAstation 2000 and an ALPHAstation 2100.
    > I'm not sure if I want to keep them (they are nice machines, and I
    > actually have room for them, but I am concerned about power consumption,
    > even if they don't consume the presumably maximum values printed on the
    > housing; if I can ever justify the cost of the power, I can justify the
    > cost of buying newer, faster, less power-hungry hardware), though if I
    > do I can use them occasionally (say, as temporary replacements) even if
    > I don't keep them switched on all the time. However, if someone is
    > looking for such a machine, I would be willing to trade it for some of
    > the above stuff and/or sell it for a reasonable fee (to cover my costs
    > in buying them and/or collecting them).
    >
    > I can also offer in trade a couple of SCSI CD-ROM drives which only do
    > 2048-byte sectors (i.e. they won't work with VMS).
    >
    > I will arrive in Kent on Tuesday 10 August, be in the Manchester area on
    > Wednesday 11 August and in Oxfordshire Thursday--Saturday 12--14 August.
    > Obviously, I will make the corresponding journeys, but could go as far
    > out of the way as time permits. I will be heading back Sunday, but will
    > have very little time, though it might be possible to collect something
    > early Sunday morning if it is between Oxfordshire and Kent. On the way
    > there, I will be passing through the Netherlands and the western part of
    > Belgium, so would be interested in collecting stuff there on Sunday 8
    > August or possibly Monday 9 August.
    >
    > Please email me if you can offer me something!
    >

    Phillip

    if you pass through the Netherlands then a visit to Weert might be
    worthwhile.
    A company called Wetec has all kinds of old VAX and Alpha gear.
    Two weeks ago I bought a second cpu and 512 MB for my 5305. I got the
    rest of the system as well.

    Hans

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