9 Jun
2025
9 Jun
'25
6:48 p.m.
Like many here, I have copies of the original BSTJ special issue, that I inherited from my
dad, and a bootleg nth generation Lions. They aren’t rare, but definitely prized!
My rare items are only Unix-adjacent. I have a Digital “Beta” prototype, the first Alpha
machine in a PC form factor. It runs OSF-1, or would if I can find the SIMMs I borrowed
from it :). I have some boards for a Digital Firefly, a research vax multiprocessor that
ran a Modula-2 based OS that would run Ultrix binaries. And I have a couple of working
SiCortex SC072s, which are 12-node beowulf clusters in-a-box that run Gentoo. I worked on
the teams that built these so they are definitely prized.
-Larry