[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

[Lawrence Stewart]

Like many here, I have copies of the original BSTJ special issue, that I inherited from my dad, and a bootleg nth generation Lions.  They aren’t rare, but definitely prized!

My rare items are only Unix-adjacent.  I have a Digital “Beta” prototype, the first Alpha machine in a PC form factor. It runs OSF-1, or would if I can find the SIMMs I borrowed from it :).  I have some boards for a Digital Firefly, a research vax multiprocessor that ran a Modula-2 based OS that would run Ultrix binaries.  And I have a couple of working SiCortex SC072s, which are 12-node beowulf clusters in-a-box that run Gentoo.  I worked on the teams that built these so they are definitely prized.

-Larry