On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:57, Gareth Williams wrote: > How many people are interested in playing with something like this? I'd guess
> On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:02, Jason Greenwood wrote: > > I have a box that a chap I know would be willing to donate to the CLUG > > Data General Aviion 8500 Unix system. 4 Processors, Dual tape drives, > > floppy and CD rom drives. Complete with console and keyboard. > > This unit attaches to a Clariion C2000-D Storage Array with 20 Slots for > > disk drives. The Array has 3 x4Gb drives, 11 x 1 Gb drives and 5 x 2Gb > > drives. > > Some spare drives as well. Back in those days (Motorola CPUs) DG/UX was a great OS. They bundled many GNU tools, gcc being the main one. The machines were SOTA. This beastie would still make a great and fast file server/gateway, perhaps even a passable DB back end. Many years ago i ported postgres to these machines, i remember seeing that the port still existed not long ago. Is there any way we can make this accessable to all (non) members. Will the OSTC be a place where someone can take their machine along, set it up on the LAN and have a play? Perhaps even remote access over the `net to a select few? Cheers, Rex
