Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please...

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Sun Mar 18 15:49:56 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude.W" <claudew_at_videotron.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:32 AM
Subject: Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please...


> Hi
>
> There is a large flea market about 20 minutes from here every weekend.
It
> fills about 2 to 3 drive-in parking lots during summer and even during
the
> dead of winter in below 0 temperatures, there are about 100 tables and
lots
> to look through... Never know what you are going to find...today I
found:
>
> Vax Station 5000/200 with 32Megs (?) $5

It's not a Vax. It's Digital, but it's a Decstation. MIPS RISC chip.
Will run Ultrix or NetBSD, not VMS.

Good catch.

Search under Decstation 5000 instead of Vax 5000. (TINVax5000)
Lots on the NetBSD site about the port for these.

Cheers

Geoff
Received on Sun Mar 18 2001 - 15:49:56 GMT