When I was younger I collected some interesting and exotic computers, mostly old RISC systems. But it's time for me to move on. Could anybody make good use of these systems? I have:
* A Sun Ultra 2 workstation with dual UltraSparc processors. 266 MHz, I think, with 256MB RAM. It comes with an external SCSI JBOD. I was running Gentoo Linux on it, and for awhile this was my sole desktop computer.
* An HP Apollo 735 workstation with a PA-RISC CPU and 192 MB RAM. Comes with paper HP-UX documentation, but no installation media.
* A DEC 3000 workstation, with a first-generation Alpha CPU. True64 Unix is installed.
* A DEC/Compaq AlphaServer DS10L. It has an Alpha CPU, 256 MB RAM, dual 100 Mb ethernet, and is running Gentoo Linux.
* An SGI Indy. I have original IRIX installation media for it, but I busted a pin on the cdrom, so the OS is only half-installed. If you can find a 50-pin SCSI CDROM you can reinstall the OS.
* A Hitachi VC-3120 digital logic analyzer
* An HP 3336B Synthesizer/Level generator. It's basically a radio frequency function generator.
* The piece-de-la-resistance, a SiCortex PDS-72 supercomputer. It contains 12 nodes, each with 6 MIPS cores and 4 GB RAM. There's also a builtin dual core AMD motherboard for development. It's running Gentoo Linux. I used it to run parallel SPICE simulations.
-Alan