Fw: DEC 7000 (AXP) stuff available in Austin, TX

From: Robert F. Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Date: Wed Dec 11 18:43:19 2002

As seen on the NetBSD port-vax list...

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olof Johansson" <offe>
To: <port-vax>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: DEC 7000 (AXP) stuff available in Austin, TX


> This is somewhat offtopic given the processor architecture, but given that
> everything else on these systems seems to be common with VAX:
>
> I just came back from looking at some of the stuff a local liquidator is
> trying to get rid off. It's 3 or 4 DEC7000's (all of them alphas, as far
> as I can tell. At least one of them 2-CPU). Each machine has one or two
XMI
> boxes as well. There's also a crapload of disk arrays, with 1/2/4GB disks.
>
> Most of this seem to have been clustered (using OpenVMS). I also spotted
> a couple of TZ87/86 units.
>
> I'm not enough of a texan to own a huge truck, and given the sheer size of
> all this equipment, there's no way I can even resque some of it for
anyone.
> But I figured if there's someone else in the area that's interested they
> might want to know about it.
>
> The liquidator can be reached at 'derrick' [less the quotes]
> _at_sanmarcos.net or 512-665-6655.
> I have no idea what kind of money he might be looking to get for it.
Received on Wed Dec 11 2002 - 18:43:19 GMT

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