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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Ron – if you need any software for your DEC Alpha mobo (it’s probably a Miata mobo – e.g. a Digital Personal Workstation mobo), I have everything from WinNT, Win2000 to VMS and “good” Linux distros that were originally made for it. I actually owned 4 Miata systems and 4 Digital Ultimate Workstations (a.k.a. AlphaServer 1200s) from Compaq back in the early Sharcnet days, and I kept all the software (and one Miata system for posterity).</p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Jason.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">Ron Singh</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 22, 2019 11:02 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">KWLUG discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] Old / Vintage components</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Man, questions like these make me want to cry -- just last year in May, my local IT joint had a massive purge of older parts, ranging from 486 to PIII and the associated ISA-bussed stuff, all e-wasted. Remarkable how many brand-new ATI VLB video cards were tossed, a project that went bad.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I think you would have the best of luck with a visit to a smaller e-waster, where you tell them that you will tear apart some older PCs and take what you want and they get some free labour. I would imagine most e-waster will frown on an outside at their premises from a liability standpoint, but mebbe not. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I think it worth a try.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I am personally looking for an ASUS ISA-486 mobo as it was best-of-breed back in the day as I have a real nice Intel 486dx4-100 CPU in hand along with the RAM/PSU/Video. Shockingly, we found a new DEC Alpha mobo that will run Win NT and likely some Debian cut. That mobo was kept:-)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,</p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm looking to revive an old 386 I once had. I've found an identical model on ebay and it's on it's way, but it got me wondering if there was anything in the K/W (or even Toronto) area where older computer parts may still be available?</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've done a number of google searches, but most of the companies out there sell more recent systems (2010+). I'm hoping for late 80's early 90's.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If anyone knows, please let me know!</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.</p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.8pt'>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>