I am glad they got rescued. On the Alpha stuff, I will over the next month, put all the Tru64 and OpenVMS CD sets, documentation and hardware licenses into on pile.
I would like to find a destination that will / can redistribute the CD's etc. I don't want to them and the licenses get put into the hands of one individual and never to be seen again. Suggestions ? -pete On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > For those follow the rescue of equipment from Pete Lancashire's place > outside of Portland ... > > I went out there last Friday. Pete was unavailable, so a friend of his let > me and showed me where to avoid stepping. > > The amount of stuff there was impressive/amazing/overwhelming. Aside from > the test equipment and old telecom equipment that was pointed out when I > was shown around, it was hard to focus on one thing because I would > immediately see something else interesting that grabbed my attention. > > I picked up seven Sun SPARC systems and three Compaq-branded Alpha systems. > > The Alpha systems all went to a local (Seattle) person who is talking to > Bill Gunshannon about possibly getting one out to him. One of the Alphas > was a DS20 deskside and I never figured out what the other two were. They > were narrower and longer than the DS20. There were also some loose 72G > Ultra3 SCSI HDDs. > > The Suns were a SS1, SS2, two SS5s (one with a Netra top cover), two SS20s > (one with its cover removed and MBus card and memory lying near it) and a > SS1+ "prototype". I am keeping the SS1+ and a SS5. I have found a home for > a couple more of them and will be looking for a home for the rest. > > The SS20s are the most problematic. As you would expect from a system with > its top cover missing, one of the SS20s does not display any diagnostic > output or get to the OBP prompt after being powered on. The "good" one > displays a "replace motherboard" message while going through its > diagnostics. > > Also, as you might expect, the one called a prototype was the most > interesting to me. I am a long-time Sun employee and, while I wasn't around > when the SS1+ was developed, I know people who were. It isn't like any > prototype that they knew of. Still trying to figure out exactly what it is. > The top cover is metal and slides over the chassis (not plastic and pivots > into place like a SS1+. There are no external markings on it. It has a Sun > SS1+ motherboard, Sun0424 HDDs, and uses SS1/SS1+/SS2 HDD carriers, but has > a Sony (not Sun) labeled power supply. > > As far as the 029 keypunch, it is still there. There was some confusion > and the people who were supposed to come get it didn't. I have described to > them where it is and how I would go about removing it. > > alan > > >
