On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:16:08 -0400, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 14:59, Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com> wrote:

My rare items are only Unix-adjacent.  ...  I have some boards for a Digital
Firefly, a research vax multiprocessor that ran a Modula-2 based OS that
would run Ultrix binaries.

That's incredibly cool.  Do you know if any of the Firefly machines
survived?  I saw a VAXstation 3540 for sale at some point recently but it
was well out of my price range; I hope it found a good home.

-Henry

I have a set of Firefly boards (I worked on the Taos operating system for the Firefly). But as far as I can tell, no software survives.


(Topaz was the name for the Modula-2+ programming environment, which also ran on VAX Ultrix.)


Paul