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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:59:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Old machines, not Alpha was:AXPpci33 <-> Sparc sun4c  serial cable
Message-ID:  <al3es2$129b$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <20020903190239.A48033@gnah.bolet.org> <20020903201749.F14118@freebie.xs4all.nl> <1031078749.7991.15.camel@jan-freebsd.lan>

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Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> wrote:

> since the topic already started I'd liked to jump in. Do people on this
> list also run other vintage (non-alpha, NON-X86!!) machines (not the
> alpha is all vintage, but mine is). If so which? What experiences? What
> OSes?

I have a Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC) on loan, running OpenBSD.

I also used to have a Sun SPARCstation 20/71 but I got tired of
that box and after building OpenBSD/sparc packages for three releases
in a row I decided I had had enough of that platform.

I very much like non-x86 hardware, but I'm not a collector.  For
me a machine must still be usable.  VAXen, m68k machines, non-Ultra
SPARCs, alphas < 21164, and other boxes in that speed range don't
qualify.  YMMV, I know people who very much enjoy what I call "museum
hardware", although I have no idea what they actually *do* with it.

> I know it's off topic again, but.... (can't think of any excuses
> anymore)

Maybe continue on -chat?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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