I was planning on snagging that pallet, and if most of the equipment
works, the next pallet as well.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> ***notes inline....
> 
> ! On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> ! 
> ! > Check out ebay at:
> ! > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1246743978
> ! > --
> ! >  - J. Buck Caldwell
> ! 
> ! I went to see this equipment yesterday.  The place is a 
> ! boneyard.  Most of
> ! the vaxen are from NASA and Texas universities.  The boxes on this
> ! particular pallet are a bit dirty, but look servicable.  They'd
> ! shrink-wrapped the pallet, but they let my pull on of the 
> ! 3100s out.  I
> ! couldn't tell much, but it did have a disk drive.
> ! 
> ! These guys have *lots* more vaxen and when I was there they 
> ! were preparing another pallet for auction, mostly with more
> ! 3100s.  This second pallet
> ! looked cleaner than the first.  There are some bigger cabinets.
> ! 
> ! So, questions:
> ! 
> ! Can you run a serial console off a 3100?  
> 
> Yes...
> (I have the DEC manual for the VS3100/M38.)
> 
> ! Is it the "printer" port?  
> 
> Yes...
> 
> ! Does it take that funky MMU(?) connector?
> 
> Yes, it has the DEC MMJ connector...
> 
> ! The auction for the first pallet was at $305 last I looked.  I could
> ! probably buy some of the other cleaner 3100s for $10 each and it seems
> ! like he'd let me test that they work first.  
> ! 
> ! So what do we want to do?  I'm inclined not to bid, but pick 
> ! up systems
> ! for whoever might be interested.  I'm only afraid that there's so much
> ! stuff over there that I'll turn into a NetBSD Bob.  :)
> ! 
> ! - Greg
> 
> 	Well, I don't have space for another whole system right now, but I
> could always use more memory than the 16MB I have now in my 3100/M38, and
> bigger disk drives...
> 
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