I know a fella at the CDHB that gave me a Crimson SGI (with software that goodness) to cart off and play with of about the same era of this machine, so he may also have the software lying in a box somewhere. I'll give him an ask and see if he knows.
Al
At 01:07 p.m. 4/02/2003 +1300, you wrote:
Ok all, here's more info.... =)
Hi,
It does have ethernet and it normally runs dg-ux, which is a firm of unix from data general.
The operating system was erased by the previous user who was paranoid about security.
They also would not give me a copy of the software. However, I am sure that there may be a member in the group who may have a contact at CDHB in the computer dept. The machine originally came from Canterbury District Health Board.
Stay cool
Rex Johnston wrote:
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 CLUGData 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
