Note that top-priority items are listed in bold.

Intel x86 Gear

This section is the priority for 2019/20.

Boxed Software

Doesn’t need to be factory-sealed, but should be complete-in-box, as well as being the full retail, non-OEM version, and not marked as “Upgrade”, “Step-Up”, or “For distribution only with new PCs”.

• Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.22 (3.5″ diskettes)
• Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 (any media)
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 (3.5″ diskettes)
• Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (3.5″ diskettes)
• Microsoft Windows 3.0 (any media)
• Microsoft Windows 95 (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Windows 98 (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 (any media)
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Office Professional 4.3 with Bookshelf (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Office ’95 (CD-ROM)
• Microsoft Encarta ’95
• Microsoft Ancient Lands
• Microsoft Dangerous Creatures
• Microsoft Dinosaurs
• Microsoft Musical Instruments
• Microsoft Multimedia Mozart
• Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS Professional 1.00
• Borland Delphi 1.0
• IBM OS/2 2.0
• IBM OS/2 2.1
• IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 (Red Spine; CD-ROM)
• IBM OS/2 Warp 4.0 (Blue Spine; CD-ROM)
• IBM PC-DOS 2000
• IBM PC-DOS 3.21 (in cloth-covered binder sleeve)
• WordStar 5.5 or 6.0 for MS-DOS
• WordStar 7.0 for MS-DOS
• WordStar for Windows
• Word Perfect 6.0 for MS-DOS
• Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2
• Borland C++ for OS/2
• IBM VisualAge for PL/I
• IBM VisualAge for BASIC
• IBM VisualAge C++
• IBM DB2 for OS/2

Miscellaneous Software

This does not need to be boxed.

• Large Print DOS (LPDOS)
• NEC PowerMate SX Plus utilities disk
• PC Globe 4.0

Hardware

• Panasonic JU-475 5.25″ floppy drive
• SCSI2SD V5.1 adapters (as many as possible)
• Fujitsu M2694ES-512 1.0GB SCSI hard drive
• Intel D5400XS motherboard
• Any Pentium Pro-compatible motherboard
• Any Slot 1 Pentium III motherboard and compatible processor
• Any Pentium II motherboard and compatible processor
• Any dual-socket AMD Athlon MP motherboard and compatible processors
• IBM ThinkPad 755CD

Facility

• A larger conduit to the house, with lots of fiber and copper
• AT&T Merlin Legend PBX
• EKM Metering with EKM Push
• Enlarge the comm backboard
• Natural gas backup generator
• Solar power on both the shed roof and the house roof
• New roof for the building
• Stucco for the building
• Exterior cameras
• Proximity reader access control
• Remote smoke/humidity/temperature/flood alarm
• Crash cart
• Re-float the concrete floor
• Rolling wire shelves and lots of matching, opaque storage bins
• Intelligent metering PDUs
• Monitoring dashboard on a large TV, ceiling-mounted
• Move the T1 SmartJack and the Comcast cable Internet service to the datashed

Telephony Gear

• ATL card for Merlin Legend
• T1 card for Merlin Legend
• Merlin Messaging voicemail card for Merlin Legend
• BIS-22D phone
• MLX-16DP phone
• MLX-28D phone
• Western Electric 554 phone (green)
• More 66 blocks

Networking

• PBX system for both shed and house (AT&T Merlin Legend)
• A full /24 CIDR block (or larger) and my own ASN; BGP for both Internet connections
• A /28 CIDR block for point-to-point links
• Reverse DNS delegation from GTT and ZiaNet
• Faster IP transit
• Ubiquiti WiFi system
• Cisco 7513 router (to replace the 7204VXR)
• New top-of-rack switches (all Cisco)
• Bridge the Comcast cable modem and route it the same as the other two connections
• Cisco 2511-RJ Terminal Server

Storage

• More 4TB drives for the storage server
• A second storage server (mirrored) for backups
• Brocade Silkworm 16-port FC switch

DEC Gear

• MicroVAX II in BA23 housing
• MicroVAX 3900 or VAX 4000 model 300
• VAX 11/750 w/Emulex UC-08
• VAX 7000
• CD caddy for the RRD42
• Cable to connect RRD42 to VAXstation 4000 VLC
• MicroVAX 3100 with tape drive
• TK50 drive
• TU81+ drive
• MicroPDP-11/93
• PDP-11/70
• An additional AlphaServer DS10L

Silicon Graphics Gear

• Origin 2000
• Onyx 2
• O2

Sun Gear

• A Sun Blade 2000 workstation as a faster upgrade for the Ultra 10
• Sun Ultra 60
• Sun Ultra 5
• Sun E450
• SunPCI II for the Ultra 10
• More SS20’s
• Sun Type 6 Keyboard & Mouse
• Sun Fire 6800 or Enterprise 10000

Apple Gear

• PowerMac G3 AIO
• Performa 475
• LC-II
• PowerMac 6100
• Macintosh Color Classic
• Apple Cinema Display (Original, ADC, clear polycarbonate, 22-inch)
• Apple 17″ Studio Display, Original Graphite
• LC PDS Ethernet card for Performa 410

HP Gear

• SCSI2SD for HP9000/800 I40

Commodore Gear

• Amiga 3000T
• Amiga 4000D
• Amiga 2000HD
• Commodore 128DCR

IBM Gear

• PS/2 Model 80
• PS/2 Model 55SX
• Aptiva 2144-A12
• More blades for BladeCenter
• Replace all ProLiant machines with IBM/Lenovo System x3550/x3560
• Additional compute node
• 5150 PC w/CGA, 5153 display, and XT-IDE
• 5160 PC XT
• 5162 PC XT-286
• PCjr
• 5170 AT with IBM EGA

Other Gear

• MITS Altair 8800 clone