Hi,
I was at the YAPC::EU CPAN testers bofh in Lisbon, and discussed the
possibility of adding more uncommon hardware to the CPANT pool.
I had some difficulties subscribing to this list, but in the meantime
I asked around for hardware and I have now the following systems:
* a big 8U AIX RS6000 server: this is a enterprise class box, but
was given "as is";
* 3 sparcstations.
I have still pending a RS200, two other enterprise Suns, and possibly
2 alphas (one running True64 and the other OpenVMS).
Of course, that is on top of an old dual processor PII 500Mh server :)
that I plan to use to smoke test FreeBSD.
Regarding the RS6000, this was given as is, without cables, manuals
and software. I have a couple of friends at IBM Portugal, and I'll try
to get hold of that there.
I can host the sparcstations and the x86 but I will have problems
hosting the RS6000, it is a *big* server. Is there someone in Europe
that wants this one?
Next steps: I'll clean the x86 and one of the sparcs to get the ball
running. Which OS should I use with the spacstation? I think they have
to run old versions of Solaris (7 through 9, i think, still waiting
confirmation from a friend at Sun).
Best regards,
