<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks for the offer Jason! I will likely take you up on that offer as this board is aching to be put into use running Debian.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 4:35 PM Jason Eckert <<a href="mailto:jason.eckert@gmail.com">jason.eckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-2300924127381414863WordSection1"><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a Digital Personal Workstation mobo), I have everything from WinNT, Win2000 to VMS and “good” Linux distros that were originally made for it.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"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:medium none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">KWLUG discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] Old / Vintage components</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></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. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I think it worth a try.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></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:-)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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"><u></u> <u></u></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"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone knows, please let me know!</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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