Exotic computers looking for a good home

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alan somers

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Dec 29, 2019, 5:48:57 PM12/29/19
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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
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