On 03-Aug-97, Bruce Lane wrote:
>Weight: About 40-50 lbs. Not bad at all, really. Some PC full-towers tip
>the scales around there.
That's what I'm hoping for..if so, it's likely I could handle retrieving it
without a problem.
>Sizewise, they're about as tall as a full-tower, but deeper and skinnier.
>You can probably lift one in your arms without a huge problem.
Sounds a lot like a NCR tower that sat in my office for a while, and was a
special purpose machine used for tracking of specific commodity items.
>With the hardware that's in it, you could easily run OpenVMS, MicroVMS,
>regular VMS (I think -- someone check me on that, please?), Ultrix, or
NetBSD.
Yes, according to the info I've found on the Web, OpenVMS seems the way to
go with it...so far, I've found very few 'nice' references to MicroVMS! In
fact, it looks like one can get a hobbyist license for OpenVMS for free if one
is a member of Decus.
>I know the guy I wrote to said there were no docs or diags with it, but...
>if by some miracle he was wrong, I'd like to get a copy of any diagnostics
>that you might get with it.
I spoke to him on the phone for a few minutes on friday, and he wasn't
able to tell me much about it...from his quick discription, the system sounded
like the larger unit. I hope not, as I wouldn't be able to do anything about
picking up the larger unit. He did say that the only thing I'd be getting
would be the system unit itself..no docs, terminals, software, or anything.
He was supposed to leave me an email with further info and directions on how
to get to his office, but I've yet to hear from him. I'm going to call him
tomorrow morning again.
Jeff jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com
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Received on Sun Aug 03 1997 - 08:39:40 BST