mpickering
Experienced Member
Hi all,
I'm into collecting of vintage and older Unix boxes, specifically workstations. I do have one kind of vintage PC (Dell P90) in active service as my Internet firewall (isn't Linux grand).
What I've had:
Commodore VIC-20
Apple IIe
Atari 800XL
Bondwell 800 XT laptop (B&W CGA with 2 3.5 inch floppies)
What I have:
Timex Sinclair 1000 (my first computer ever to which I owe a lot)
Modern PCs (these don't count)
3 x SPARCstation 10MP (different multi-CPU configurations and memory, tons of hardware to build them out)
1 Sun Ultra 10 (not vintage but nifty)
2 SGI Octanes (my current pride and joy, these things are powerhouses)
What I looking for:
SGI Indy
SGI Indigo2
SGI Oynx2
SGI Iris
Apple 68K-based Macintosh (just to see Linux run on it)
Sun 3 (just because)
Symbolic LISP workstation (these things were cool)
DEC MicroVAX or equivalent (just to see if VMS was really that bad)
In my wildest dreams:
Xerox Star 8010
Cray (any Cray, but a YMP-EL92 would be nice)
PDP-8 or PDP-11
As you can see, I like big iron. For the second time in my short Unix workstation collecting career, I went looking at the right time. Right now, Octane stuff is dirt cheap and I've done well for a relatively small investment (around $300). I can still be amazed by nearly decade old technology that was used to render Toy Story.
My interest is actually using this stuff and to play with programming on different systems. The SGIs are my current focus because they are making me consider getting back into hardware programming (with a purpose in mind).
Matt
I'm into collecting of vintage and older Unix boxes, specifically workstations. I do have one kind of vintage PC (Dell P90) in active service as my Internet firewall (isn't Linux grand).
What I've had:
Commodore VIC-20
Apple IIe
Atari 800XL
Bondwell 800 XT laptop (B&W CGA with 2 3.5 inch floppies)
What I have:
Timex Sinclair 1000 (my first computer ever to which I owe a lot)
Modern PCs (these don't count)
3 x SPARCstation 10MP (different multi-CPU configurations and memory, tons of hardware to build them out)
1 Sun Ultra 10 (not vintage but nifty)
2 SGI Octanes (my current pride and joy, these things are powerhouses)
What I looking for:
SGI Indy
SGI Indigo2
SGI Oynx2
SGI Iris
Apple 68K-based Macintosh (just to see Linux run on it)
Sun 3 (just because)
Symbolic LISP workstation (these things were cool)
DEC MicroVAX or equivalent (just to see if VMS was really that bad)
In my wildest dreams:
Xerox Star 8010
Cray (any Cray, but a YMP-EL92 would be nice)
PDP-8 or PDP-11
As you can see, I like big iron. For the second time in my short Unix workstation collecting career, I went looking at the right time. Right now, Octane stuff is dirt cheap and I've done well for a relatively small investment (around $300). I can still be amazed by nearly decade old technology that was used to render Toy Story.
My interest is actually using this stuff and to play with programming on different systems. The SGIs are my current focus because they are making me consider getting back into hardware programming (with a purpose in mind).
Matt