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<h2>Hardware wanted.</h2>

<h2><font color=#e00000>Hardware wanted</font><hr></h2>

<h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>

<p>

The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.

Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver

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time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be

spend on improving OpenBSD instead.

<h3><font color=#e00000>Additional Notes</font></h3>

<p>

In each case, please contact

Notes:

<dl>

<li>In each case, please contact

<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>

before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where

the hardware needs to be shipped to).

the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>

<li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers

for some of these things.<p>

<li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,

because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>

</dl>

<p>

<hr>

ps. as an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers

for some of these things...

<ul>

<li>Alpha hardware:

<dl>

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Alpha hardware</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>Some alpha hardware in Europe and North America.

<li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the

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ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.6 CDROM (it isn't worth our effort).

</ul>

<p>

<li>i386 gear:

<ul>

<li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debuggint really hard bugs.

<li>BT445S VL SCSI card.

<li>Intel i82586/i82596-based ethernet cards

(i.e. BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,

Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,

AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)

</ul>

<p>

<li>Sparc gear:

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines

<li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines

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<li>Tadpole S3GX.

</ul>

<p>

<li>PCI gear:

<ul>

<li>PCI adaptec 789x-based scsi boards

<li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual

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<li>A DEC PCI fddi card.

</ul>

<p>

<li>Infrastructure requirements:

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our

development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines

need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.

<li>A fast/wide differential scsi drive and cable

<li>A small FDDI concentrator

<li>a fairly large UPS (Calgary)

<li>a medium sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado)

<li>4 port Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch and cabling

</ul>

<p>

<li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast scsi

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast scsi

and slots for cheap memory.

</ul>

<p>

<li>BT445S VL SCSI card.

<li>Intel i82586/i82596-based ethernet cards

(i.e. BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,

Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,

AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)

<p>

<li>HPPA gear:

<ul>

<li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)

<li>HP 9000/725/100 (upgrade for 725/50, HP A4146A)

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<li>Precision I/O Architecture Reference Specification (the latest version)

</ul>

<p>

<li>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear:

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)

<li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)

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<li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)

</ul>

<p>

<li>ISAPNP cards. All sorts wanted, including:

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>

We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become

very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>

<ul>

<li>Some NE2000 and SMC ISAPNP cards.

<li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.

<li>WSS audio card.

<li>CSxxx audio card, that definately has MIDI support.

</ul>

We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become

very rock-solid.

<p>

<li>PCMCIA: Any bizzare unused devices, including:

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>

Any bizzare unused devices, including:<p>

<ul>

<li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA bridge cards.

<li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 ethernet + 56K modem + GSM

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<li>ATA Flash cards.

</ul>

<p>

<li>Miscellaneous

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>

<ul>

<li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)

<li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.

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devices in use!

</ul>

<p>

<li>POSIX.1 specifications document

<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>POSIX.1 specifications document, printed.

<li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document, printed.

</ul>

</dl>

<hr>

<h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>

Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the

following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in

the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!

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<li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.

<li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.

<li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.

<li>9GB fast-wide differential scsi disk.

<li>fast-wide differential scsi cable.

<li>ISAPNP modem.

<li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.

<li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)

</ul>

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