Hi !

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> i do have a sparc2 that i could use.  however, the NVRAM is kaput, and i don't
> have a new one yet.  if i coulda got the vax going, that woulda been real cool.

Why don't you just fix the NVRAM? Rip off the top part of the device, and
connect a 3V lithium battery and a 32.768KHz xtal to it, and life goes on. I
did this often the last days...

> the thought of having a VAX running as my *FIREWALL* has a significant amount
> of appeal to me.  i've email Process in the hopes that they will grant me a
> hobbyist license for PMDF, the OpenVMS based firewall software they have just
> bought.  *that* would be cool.  ;)

I had running my 4000/105A as web/mail/ldap/somewhat-server quite a long time.
And the machine is still standing around, waiting for new jobs. Currently, by
Webserver is a DECstation 5000/133, also nice. But the VAX might do it better.

...Michael

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