On 9/15/26 15:32, Dave McGuire wrote:
On September 15, 2026 15:29:20 Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost> wrote:My advice, based on my own metric tonn of hardware, is to just scrap all of it with the exception of a single Netra X1 and a T1-105.I sincerely hope that awful, terrible, unspeakable things happen to anyone who actually follows this absurd advice. It's not like they'll be making any more. This is how things become "rare". -Dave
Grow up. I have plenty of hardware running from all the way back to 1994. This is not a car collection market. Computers age to zero value
and then slowly increase ONLY for an obscure and tiny market of people
that feel some strange desire to keep things like that running outside
of a museum.
Oh .. also .. for the record :
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/mpc-discuss/2026-08/msg00001.html
Real hardware running wonderfully. DEC AlphaStation 600 from 1997 and
these days it runs OpenVMS 8.4 such that I may do FORTRAN77 work. The
SPARCStation 20 units ( plural ) run Solaris 8 and Solaris 2.5.1 where
the Solaris 8 unit still has the "blastwave" software stack on it and
continues to do test/dev work for various open source reasons. Also I
have multiple RISC-V machines where various other people enjoy messing
with that disaster. I can tell you RHEL10 does NOT work well on RISC-V
from SiFive. Their marketting is bullshit. The only part missing in my
collection of *running* machines is a Z80 with CPM. Someday I hope to
have an IBM System Z unit running. Those are still a bit expensive.
Oh, also, grow up.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
(retired OpenSolaris Governance Board member slayed by Larry)