Subject: Re: Big VAXen
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/25/1999 19:21:11
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Matt Thomas wrote:
>There's currently a VAX 6200 (actually a 6400) on Ebay.  It's in
>Hayward, CA so its local to me.  If the my bid succeeds, someone 
>has already promised a home for it and so I will donate it to 
>the NetBSD foundation for NetBSD/vax development.  I have a fond-
>ness for XMI machines.  Of all the VAXen, there are the "cleanest"
>IMO.  And if we can get a MIPS XMI board set, then maybe 5800
>support could be written as well.

  I have a 5800.  I am willing to loan its boards to such an effort.

  I just looked at the 6200 on eBay.  That's a *big* system! :-)

                     -Dave McGuire