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! On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
! 
! > Check out ebay at:
! > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1246743978
! > --
! >  - J. Buck Caldwell
! 
! I went to see this equipment yesterday.  The place is a 
! boneyard.  Most of
! the vaxen are from NASA and Texas universities.  The boxes on this
! particular pallet are a bit dirty, but look servicable.  They'd
! shrink-wrapped the pallet, but they let my pull on of the 
! 3100s out.  I
! couldn't tell much, but it did have a disk drive.
! 
! These guys have *lots* more vaxen and when I was there they 
! were preparing another pallet for auction, mostly with more
! 3100s.  This second pallet
! looked cleaner than the first.  There are some bigger cabinets.
! 
! So, questions:
! 
! Can you run a serial console off a 3100?  

Yes...
(I have the DEC manual for the VS3100/M38.)

! Is it the "printer" port?  

Yes...

! Does it take that funky MMU(?) connector?

Yes, it has the DEC MMJ connector...

! The auction for the first pallet was at $305 last I looked.  I could
! probably buy some of the other cleaner 3100s for $10 each and it seems
! like he'd let me test that they work first.  
! 
! So what do we want to do?  I'm inclined not to bid, but pick 
! up systems
! for whoever might be interested.  I'm only afraid that there's so much
! stuff over there that I'll turn into a NetBSD Bob.  :)
! 
! - Greg

	Well, I don't have space for another whole system right now, but I
could always use more memory than the 16MB I have now in my 3100/M38, and
bigger disk drives...

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