Cisco AGS+

Uno de los primeros routers que se pusieron en RedIRIS ,  y que estuvo funcionando (al menos tiene la versión de IOS 11.0 ) hasta 1997, fueron estos equipos, introducidos por Cisco a principios de los años 1990, (habrá que investigar en el boletín si aparece más información.

El equipo disponía de varios slots para puertos serie y dos Ethernet a 10mbs con interface AUI para la conexión en local.

Curioso que ya en esa época el equipo disponía de ventilación lateral,  e incluso de "interruptor de encendido":

Por desgracia parece que la obsolescencia programada no es un asunto reciente, ya que aunque la memoria "flash" parece que funciona correctamente y el sistema arranca,  se produce un error al empezar a ejecutar el sistema operativo, lastima no se va a poder conectar a internet de nuevo..

Sun Ultra 5

It was November 2003 and I was in Tokio after a conference, so what is one of the geek places to visit in Tokio ?, ...
(if you don't know the anwser it should be that you have not been in Tokio and not a computer collector ;-).

Akihabara, is an area of Tokio full of electronic equipment, new and also used /old, so it was the perfect place to buy some olf stuff. After visiting the place I bought a Sun Ultra sparc5 for 6,300 Yens , about 50 Euros in 2003, so it was a cheap.

 The problem is, "how to carry a Sun ultra Sparc 5 home ?", (and cheap / free ) , the machine weight about 8kg, so it was not good to put inside the baggage.

The reply is easy , as "cabin baggage", so here are two pictures of the machine prepared to flight home:

Both pictures were taken in the Hotel room just before leaving, it was quite heavy, but fortunately I don't need to walk too much to reach the airport.

 About the machine it wood to remember that was one of the "cheap Sun", (with IDE hard disk & cdrom,  VGA video output and so on,) but with a Ultra Sparc chip , able to run the recent Solaris 10
(if you have enought RAM).

 I will try to put more pictures of this machine at home soon.

DEC 3000/400

This old 64 bit system (according to Wikipedia , this models were build from 1992 to 1995), has been donated by a Spanish University.

This machines were the FIRST with a 64 bit processor (Alpha), from DIGITAL, later buy by compaq , now part of HP, nice world, Digital is one of the historic companies. and Unix was first develoved in a "PDP" series machine.



the system is currenly runninng an old operating system named OSF/1:,

# uname -a
OSF1 theory.cie.uma.es V4.0 878 alpha

but in the ALPHA chip, you could also run OpenVMS (from Digital), most of the free Unix (*BSD, Linux) and also Windows NT for Alpha !!!

This machine has the following hardware configuration:

DEC 3000 - M400
Digital Equipment Corporation
System conducting power up tests
------------------------------------------------------------

Devnam Devstat
-------- -------
CPU OK KN15-BA -V7.0-S887-I21F-sV1.0-DECchip 21064 P3.0
OSC 133 MHz
ASIC OK
MEM OK 64MB
NVR OK
SCC ?? 004 0060 ptr(0) = Not Present keybd(2) = Not Present
NI OK Ethernet Address: 08-00-2B-3F-8F-1A , TENBT
SCSI OK
ISDN OK
TC0 TC0 OK - PMAGB-BA
------------------------------------------------------------

Interesting is that the machine can be opened very quickly: here is an image of the interior , see the FAN row , they don't produce any noise when running.


unscrewing two screws, the rest of the hardware is opened:



showing the memory banks and CPU and the three fan in a row.



As usual with the Digital system, the console uses a "non standard" connector, named "MMJ", and need also a "MMJ to RJ45" cable named BN24J-07 , with and aditional adaptor from RJ45 to DB9 to be used for console, here you can see the rear part of the machine, with the ethernet connector (RJ45 and AUI), the ISDN and RJ11 (modem) connector and then the MMJ , Serial , Parallel and SCSI connector.



To be able to change the root password the system must boot on single user mode, remount the root partition with read write permissions and then change the /etc/password file , deleting the root password "root::0:1:root users:/:/bin/sh:

• from the boot prompt boot: >>> boot -fl s
• from the # console mount with rw persmissions: mount -u /
• Set the console to VT102 : TERM=vt102
• export TERM
• launch vi : vi /etc/passwd
• Contiene with the booting: exit

This is a new addition to the Museum.

Sun Ultra1

This computer was adquired about 1995 , and ceased to work about 2004 , it was one of the first machines with a 64 bit sparc CPU . The machine have only 64Mb of RAM , not so much now but enought for a small server (HTTP, SMPT/pop3, FTP) that can also used as personal workstation.

The machine has two internal hard disks and a cdrom , and was updated with an external/low cost SCSI disk to accomodate the "/home" of the users.

The mouse was an optical one, typical of Sun, but not usual for normal Pc users, and the mouse pad was required in order to work with it.

The operating system was solaris 7, unfortunately the system disk is broken so we are waiting for some folk to provide us with a new one .