Ok... you can blame John Lawson for reminding me about this. I just got
back from my annual scrounge trip to the Bay Area. Said trip netted me a
good-sized pile. While not all of it is "classic," I figure it's worth
posting.
* Upgrade components for my own system to K6-2/400, etc.
* A Digilog 300 datascope. Haven't fired that one up yet.
* My very first DEC Alpha system -- specifically, a 3000/600.
* Two Wellfleet routers.
* A Livingston 'Portmaster' IRX/Firewall router.
* A stack of DEC'ish boards, including a pair of Dilog DQ132's, a DQ686,
and a pair of Sigma RQD11E QBus ESDI controllers.
* A collection of pre-divestiture Bell System technical manuals (Station
Services, Key System Services, and Data Services). These are the white
paperbacks with the yellow/blue skunk stripes and the pre-breakup Bell logo.
* A Sorensen 0-40V/25A power supply (Heavy!)
* A nice tabletop VME chassis that still had a Force Computers 68040 CPU
board installed.
* A big Cabletron network hub chassis with 60(!) 10Base-T ports in the
form of five 12-port cards. I got it 'cause the backplane is rated for
FDDI, and I figure that means I can also use 100Base-T on it if I can find
the appropriate card.
* A pair of Sun SPARCStation IPC's.
* Keyboard/Video/Mouse extender for PCs.
* Adobe Acrobat 4.0 for around $80.
That's all I can think of at the moment. Some of it is for future
projects, and some for current ones. All I can say is I'm glad to be back.
That was a long trip!
'Til later...
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com
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human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
Received on Mon Jul 12 1999 - 23:08:33 BST