19 Mar
2018
19 Mar
'18
3:13 p.m.
In the Alpha stable I have a 1000A fully loaded with SSB and an external
SSB enclosure running VMS 7.3. I also have the desktop 3000/600 which was
bought for my PhD work with 2GB external DAT and 24 bit graphics. I have
two rackmount 3000/600s and a 3000/800.
I've been planning on downsizing for a while, I'll keep the desktop
3000/600 but will be looking to shift the rest. I had a buyer for the 1000A
a while back but couldn't get it shipped - he was going to give me ?250 for
it. I am willing to give away the 3000/800 but it can't be shipped. The
developer of the TB-USB card was earmarked for that one but he is in
Germany and it's just very difficult to get a machine with that weight
shipped.
Regards, Mark.
Windermere, UK.
On 19 March 2018 at 16:22, Rob Jarratt via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Douglas
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Sent: 19 March 2018 15:39
To: Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: AlphaServers
Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "do". Do you mean is anyone
selling them, using them for real work or just using them as a hobbyist? I
do the last of these (occasionally).
Regards
Rob
I have a running;
1000A 4/266 with 384MB Ram an full compliment of Storage Works disks (has
redundant power supplies and a nice roll around cabinet)
3000-300 booting from a SCSI2SD disk, (this is nice since it is kind of
light and
can be picked up and moved easily)
3000-400 booting from a SCSI2SD disk. (this thing is quite heavy, built
with
heavy think metal to support a equally heavy
monitor placed on top)
All running hobbyist OpenVMS 8.4, an one VRC16 DEC color monitor.
The only part that failed was in the 3000-400, the I/O module (runs
network,
serial, SCSI, video, etc) was faulty and kept the
power supply from
starting up.
These 64 bit machines are an interesting compliment to the 32 bit VAXes I
have, 4000/400, 3100/M76, MVII, 40000VLC and the 16 bit PDP-11's.
Doug