Another sad day - Digital Starion bites the dust.

After running for more that 13 years my Digital Starion has bit the
dust. From 95-1999 it ran Windows 95/98/ME. Then in 1999 I installed
Caldera Linux. It has been functioning to log into my linksys router
and updating my dynamic DNS provider ever since. It lost the "C:" drive
part of the controller around 2001 - and has been booting off of a
floppy and changing control to the hard drive ever since.

Anyway it died a horrible death and no longer reboots or anything. I
replaced it's functionality tonight with a simple php script that does
the same thing - Logs into the router, checks the IP address, compares
it to my DNS, then updates if it has changed - resubmits batch job and
runs every 5 minutes.

DEC really knew how to build hardware. (and software, and drives and
tape and chips and .. and... and... )

Michael Austin wrote:[color=blue]
> After running for more that 13 years my Digital Starion has bit the
> dust. From 95-1999 it ran Windows 95/98/ME. Then in 1999 I installed
> Caldera Linux. It has been functioning to log into my linksys router
> and updating my dynamic DNS provider ever since. It lost the "C:" drive
> part of the controller around 2001 - and has been booting off of a
> floppy and changing control to the hard drive ever since.
>
> Anyway it died a horrible death and no longer reboots or anything. I
> replaced it's functionality tonight with a simple php script that does
> the same thing - Logs into the router, checks the IP address, compares
> it to my DNS, then updates if it has changed - resubmits batch job and
> runs every 5 minutes.
>
> DEC really knew how to build hardware. (and software, and drives and
> tape and chips and .. and... and... )[/color]

And, had they been willing/able to do so at competitive prices, they
might still be around.

RIP DEC