[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 05:16:08 AEST 2025


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

>
> 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.
>

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
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