MIPS RISComputer M/120

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Mon Dec 10 16:59:07 2001

On 10-Dec-2001 Christopher Smith wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have -- in various stages of repair -- three MIPS RISComputers. The
> model is M/120. I'm in need of an operating system (and maybe even
> software :) that will run on these.
RISC/os is what you want. It's a derivative of BSD, iirc.

> They were given to me without hard drives. Any ideas?

Any SCSI-1 drive should work. 50 pin headers.

> One of them has two or three (don't remember) RAM boards, and one has
> five. The third has no RAM, and I wonder whether I could divide the
> boards between them and still have something reasonable.

The boards are 8 mb each.

IMHO, with the noise these things make, put all the RAM boards you can
(max 6) into one of them, and use it. Others serving as spare parts.

-Philip
Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 16:59:07 GMT