Subject: Re: DEC equipment give away
To: Scott Walters <scott@slowass.net>
From: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/25/2007 10:10:17
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Scott Walters wrote:
> I'm also a lazy wuss. If I can get my hands on a DEC 3100 that
> doesn't fail on POST (8 lights on solid), I'm going to try to
> weasel an image of an installed BSD system out of someone to
> dd onto a drive and stick in there.
Well, 8 lights on solid means the system does not actually fail on POST,
but the CPU does not bother to execute any instructions -- it is dead and
decaying already...
Maciej