--- Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp890.monmouth.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I even have some Pro hardware sitting in a corner - lots of it hit the
> > thrift stores about 6 years ago - you could get a complete system for $10.
> > I even had someone come to my house to give one away! It has VENIX on it
> > and works, but he forgot the root password and I never had the time to
> > go crack it
>
> The Venix distribution was up on the DECUS site so you can get it
> free... I'd have killed for the source code.
Right. I have distro floppies, minus the starting disk. The donor had
no idea where it was, and at the time, VENIX was still being sold (not
being *bought* mind you, just available should anyone _really_ want it ;-)
If I could build a bootable VENIX disk that would dump me to a prompt,
I wouldn't have to worry about what the old password was.
-ethan
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 14:06:23 BST