[OT] <10 yo DG Aviion

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Fri Apr 9 17:43:47 1999

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Williams wrote:

> I'll check those newsgroups. Isn't there a DG newsgroup?

So far as I've been able to tell, there isn't a DG newsgroup of any sort
(hardware or software). It's that "odd" market presence at work, I think.

Nobody I can think of buys DG kit, save the US Forest Service, and they
are moving away from their Eclipse installations (to IBM kit, I believe).
And yet.. this stuff is out there. I never see it for sale. DG have
existed for thirty years selling SOMETHING.

> I'll have to check. So far about all I've found are some dealers
> selling memory or re-selling old boxes.

That's the extent of what I was able to unearth.

That and to summarily proceed to be shocked at the prices they seemed to
be able to get away with asking for this ancient cruft.

> I did find one guy who says he has a couple of boxes too and is trying
> to get enough info to begin porting Linux to them. That's about it so
> far.

I have a large quantity of OS and software tapes that I would be ok with
making limited copies of (as they're out of their support life),
especially as there is something about people porting linux to oddball
stuff like this that already had some sort of UNIX OS established on it
that really squicks me.

But that's a topic for discussion in other forums.

ok
r.
Received on Fri Apr 09 1999 - 17:43:47 BST