On Aug 21, 12:16, James Rice wrote:
> On another list, there has been a long thread about SO's and room for
> the hobby. Does anyone else keep their collection set up and
> functioning? Does your SO understand?
Mine isn't all up and running, but in the office I have:
SGI Indy R5000 (always on, it does mail, NFS, backups, etc)
Acorn Archimedes A440 (always on)
Sparcstation 1+ (rarely on!)
ancient PC (occasionally on, for proprietary data CDs and Word docs)
BBC B with floppies, hard drive, various extras
Exidy Sorcerer (for Galaxians etc)
SGI Indigo
and an ISDN router, managed hub, HP1600CM colour inkjet which are also
always on, and a laser printer which is turned on when needed.
Next door, my wife has an SGI Indigo Elan which she uses for mail, surfing,
etc.
There are few oddments on shelves, such as a Microwriter AgendA, a Z88, a
Psion Organiser, a 2901 microcode tutor, and some others.
There are two more Indys in the workshop, one of which is usually on, and
another BBC and another PC (used for Linux and 22Disk). There's also
another managed hub and another router (Ethernet and FDDI), a GatorBox, a
couple of terminal servers, ...
Most of the working part of the collection is in the workshop:
PDP-11/23 in office rack with 2 x RL02, running 7th Edition Unix or RT11
microPDP-11/83 running BSD 2.11
microVAX-II running VMS somthing-or-other (at least it was, last time I
looked)
6' DEC rack containing an 11/34, two 11/73's, front-loading 1/2" magtape
unit, large Fujitsu winchester, RX02, and a couple of other 8" floppies.
These run RSX-11 and RT-11.
There's a pair of shelf bays which have the following set up and runnable:
Apple Mac IIvx
Sage II
Dragon 32
2 more Indigos, one XZ, one basic LG graphics (Song and Dance Machine,
if you know what that is)
Atari Mega ST
VT/78
microfiche reader and 'fiche boxes
Acorn R260
Amiga 500
Commodore PET 2001-8K (except it's only 7K since one chip went)
Commodore 8050 dual drive for the PET
KIM-1
home-grown Z8-based SBC
Amstrad PCW 8512
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Acorn Atom
Nascom (not strictly runnable, it needs some work)
Apple ][ Europlus
Apple //e
Apple Mac Plus and hard drive
NeXTstation
Vaxstation 3100
Around the workshop, there are a few terminals, an Epson FX100, a laptop,
and various oddments, along with my test gear, spares, etc. The rest of
the collection languishes in the attic, including more Sinclair stuff,
Acorn Electron, C128, Vic-20, Sharp MZ80K, Acorn Archimedes A310, another
Acorn R260, ...
I'm not sure about "understanding", but Liz is reasonably tolerant,
providing the collection remains in designated areas. Which it does, most
of the time (there's another 11/23 reputedly with TSX-11 installed, and a
VT100, and a large Eurocard cage in the garage at the moment). She'd
rather have a modern PC than an Indigo on her desk, but there's no way I'm
putting a full-time Windows machine on my network :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 19:28:00 BST