On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ray Jewhurst via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, I have been a student of computer history for years but have > only learned how to use classic machines vicariously through emulation. I > would really like to get my own classic computer but I don't know where to > begin. For one, I am on a very limited income and two I don't have a lot > of space and finally I don't have much knowledge on the finer points of the > older hardware i.e. terminals networking, etc. I would really like a > Vaxstation but I have also considered a '90s workstation such as an SGI > Indy or a SparcStation. I am pretty fluent in both VMS and Unix so any of > those would work. So where do I look besides e-Bay? I see some available > here but none near me. I'm in the Detroit area. Any advice would be > appreciated. I do know that I do now want a Mac or old PC. I would like > something more exotic. (Although it might me neat to own a Rainbow.) All the cool kids had DEC Rainbows... though to be honest, maybe I'm biased since the DEC Rainbow 100B was my first computer and I'm currently on a DEC Rainbow VENIX boondoggle trying too reconstruct frmo v7 and sys III sources now available the original Venix 86R source code... :) Though I'm sure all that other stuff is cool too... Warner P.S. I had a VMS Forever bumper sticker on my car for a few years thanks to an ex-girlfriend that knew me tooo well :)
