I don't have any old DEC equipment anymore, but I started my so-called IT career on a PDP-11 out in gorgeous Gardner, MA back in 1986. It ran RSX for an engineering CAD/CAM shop and we also had a VAX 780 running VMS 3.5. Last version of VMS I've worked with was 7.1, right here in Wormtown. I love Linux but I have to say I also was in love with VMS.
Rumor had it, back in '89, that there was a field somewhere off Route 12 in Leominster, where DEC had dumped loads and loads of equipment, including computers, printers, cables, you-name-it. One of my operators when I was a sys admin at DEC Marlborough at that time had his front yard filled with that stuff, and the weather allegedly had no effect on any of it.
I would imagine by now that the field, if it ever existed, is now a condo development or a semi-abandoned strip mall.
Cheers from South Woostuh!
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From: "Ken Jones" <kjones@ziplink.net>
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I tried and tried. I fdisk'd. I setenv'd boot-device. I tried to study and learn. GENTOO just would not stick.
I found in my CD pile a five disk set of AURORA 2.4.20-2.3sparc64 dated Jan 15, 2003. It installed. It does KDE. I can see all my old "lost" files. Hurray!!
Anybody have a DEC PDP10 for us senior citizens to play with?
Ken Jones
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:35:45 -0400
From: Jorden Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Success - antique linux on antique SPARC
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On May 18, 2010, at 10:02 PM, "Ken Jones" <kjones@ziplink.net> wrote:
> I tried and tried. I fdisk'd. I setenv'd boot-device. I tried to
> study and learn. GENTOO just would not stick.
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> I found in my CD pile a five disk set of AURORA 2.4.20-2.3sparc64
> dated Jan 15, 2003. It installed. It does KDE. I can see all my
> old "lost" files. Hurray!!
>
> Anybody have a DEC PDP10 for us senior citizens to play with?
'fraid even the computer history museum is still looking for parts to
get one that can boot.
You can run v7 Unix in a special pdp11 VM for old time sake, though.
It even has a working version of Ken's chess.
If anyone knows PDP assembly, I'd love to see that program ported into
the 21st century.
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:09:12 -0400
From: Doug Chamberlin <dougchamberlin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Success - antique linux on antique SPARC
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On 5/18/2010 10:02 PM, Ken Jones wrote:
> Anybody have a DEC PDP10 for us senior citizens to play with?
No, but I have two Dec Alpha systems looking for a good home.
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