From: Huge 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.people.consumers.ebay uk.misc uk.d-i-y
Subject: Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead [OT]
Date: 26 Apr 2006 18:58:59 GMT

On 2006-04-26, Peter Corlett  wrote:
> Huge  wrote:
> [...]
>> I own a PDP11. It's still a dead machine.
>
> Well, you've got me beat. I've merely got a pile of old Amigas and Macs from
> the 90s.

Also a uVAX2 (assuming my mate hasn't chucked it away), a SPARC 1+, a 2, a
'10 & a '20 (actually, this one's still in use, it's my firewall), an
Ultra T1 (destined to be new firewall), Ultra10 (sold to a colleague as
soon as I get round to installing Sol10 on it) and an Ultra 60 (this machine).
Oh, and an Ultra 2 (the "house server", where everything lives, more or less).

And on the antique front, a ZX-80, QL, Xerox 820-2 (a CP/M machine), several
BBC Micros and all the media, software & manuals for everything.

The '11 is a rackmount 11/23+, which sadly has no peripherals other than
a DL11 serial card for the console and 64K of memory (yes, you youngsters,
I really do mean "K".) I've toggled small programs into it using the
keyswitch emulator, so I know it works. Oh, and I have a genuine VT100 as
the console.
 
> Still, at least I don't try to actually do my day-to-day computing
> on the slowly-crumbling pile of antique crap. Sometimes I raid the cupboard
> out of nostalgia and then find that it wasn't nearly as much fun as I
> remember.



>
> I hold Risc OS in the same sort of contempt as MacOS 9, Windows 3.1 and all
> the other single-user systems with co-operative multitasking that have yet
> to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1960s.


Quite. I'm running Solaris 10 on my twin processor Ultra 60 with 2Gb of
memory and mirrored 34Gb disks. A whole GBP230 from eBay.


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