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I went to the swap fest this weekend and found this gem for $100. It is very clean inside and out. I had been looking for them online for years, but always been ridiculously expensive. It is an opportunity to play with a machine with OpenVMS. My other Alpha personal workstation refuses to...

Sparcstation 10 SunBlade 2500 silver Dell poweredge 1400sc (my first new computer back in 2001) HP Omnibook 425 HP Omnibook 800ct Tadpole Sparcbook 3gx IBM 5150 with IBM 5151 monochrome display HP 200lx (have 3, one of which works) Compaq 75mhz 486dx laptop Alpha Personal workstation 500au My...

When I moved stuff out of my parents attic, I pulled out my Sparcstation 10. As expected, the NVRAM is dead, but a new chip has been ordered. I also just got a great deal on a pair of 125mhz Ross Hypersparc processors. Way faster than the regular 40mhz processors that it had. This was my first...

I recently got my Alphastation PWS 500au from my parents attic. I bought it in 2006 for $100 at the MIT swap fest. It has a 500mhz Alpha 21164 processor with like 512 megs of ram. I plan on testing it this weekend and want to try to install OpenVMS on it. I got it from the OpenVMS hobbyist...

I have been passively into vintage computers for decades (primarily Sun SPARC) and handheld systems. At VCF East this weekend I finally got the IBM 5150/5151 combination at consignment so now I am delving into 8 bit. It needs to be recapped as it let out the magic smoke today. Time to hone my...