Re: Oracle Releases Solaris 11.4 "CBE" Free For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Use

2022-04-20 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 11:18:07AM -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Wonder if there is a SPARC build. Guess it's too much to ask if it will run on my Sun 386i's There is, but the hardware support does exclude a lot of "hobbyist" SPARC systems[1]: "Oracle Solaris 11.4 supports systems

Re: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-27 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:58:22PM +0100, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: I can't find the weight in any of my references right now but they are very heavy. Three people can move them up a slight slope with some effort but you would not successfully lift it into a car (assuming that it would

Re: Sun Ultra 1 PROM update to OBP 3.11.1 or better

2019-10-22 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:28:43PM -0400, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote: Anyone still have them? The particular one I need is the patch SUNWflell from anytime after late 1997. Yes, I have the standalone PROM updates for a variety of machines from that era. Have sent a separate reply

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-16 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: Does anyone know what this is? Very interesting find. I can see updown.c #includes sunromvec.h, which I believe is a Sun Microsystems include. Checking a copy of that file that's available online, some of the

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-09 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:02:38PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Sadly, I have long had a soft spot for Pentium Pros. Which probably means that I'll pay through the nose for one some day. You're not the only one :) I've owned a few over the years, including a Dell Optiplex GXpro that

Re: AlphaServers

2018-03-14 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:02:24PM +, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: Cause/effect error. I offered my 4000/60 to him when I was leaving the country in 2014. After some weeks of consideration, during which time I packed it up and got it delivered to Red Hat in Farnborough, he decided he didn't

Re: AlphaServers

2018-03-14 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:44:15PM +, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally failing about them? A number of years ago I had an AlphaServer 2100 running Tru64 that just died. It worked fine one day and the next day started

Re: AlphaServers

2018-03-14 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:55:18AM +, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: But if anyone is willing to donate a /90 or similar, he might be interested. I'm guessing the lack of interest from Theo may have been because the VAX port was dropped after OpenBSD 5.9[1]. Was rather sad when that

Re: OpenVMS software repositories?

2018-02-09 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:30:17AM +, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: On Feb 7, 2018, at 7:22 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: I'd suggest that you redirect your question to the comp.os.vms newsgroup. I frequently see discussions there about software archives. In

Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

2017-03-28 Thread Michael-John Turner via cctalk
Hi, I came across this on eBay today: www.ebay.com/itm/162446083760 To quote from the listing: Own a piece of gaming history! This Indy workstation was once owned by Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary game publisher, and was liquidated at Acclaim's bankruptcy sale in 2004. It sat