On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 13:29, Vicente Collares via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

Hello TUHS people!

Someone recently posted a question about your prized UNIX artifacts to
this list, that discussion [1] seems to be about various memorabilia.
What about computers made to run UNIX? Do you have or used to any
interesting historical hardware?

To answer this first question, most of my hardware isn't particularly rare or valuable but is of personal interest to me. Most of it came from the places where I studied and worked, and so for example I have several generations of the machine that was occs.cs.oberlin.edu, the CS department server for Oberlin College. Those are a DECserver 5000, an Alphaserver 1200, and a Sun Fire 280R; unfortunately I don't have the VAX 11/750 or know what became of it. The CS department did have an Omron LUNA 88K, which would be interesting and valuable today, but I have no idea what became of it.

I'm looking forward to the answer from others on this one - what's the most weird/obscure UNIX hardware you ever used?

-Henry