25 Jan
2019
25 Jan
'19
3:04 p.m.
Hi Andrew,
If it?s any consolation, the users of these components will be high school
students in an extremely rural area at the lowest level of poverty in the
U.S. The students are eager to learn computing and networking principles,
and these will provide opportunities for that in spades.
The performance level of these, compared with current technology, is
unimportant, as getting the right answers is more significant than how fast
they were computed. These components were used for data services, so that
fulfills the trifecta of computing, data structures, and networking (and at
fiber channel speeds, AIUI).
We?ll make some videos eventually as they puzzle their way through getting
software licenses acquired and installed, things are configured to work
together, and we get proof-of-life command line prompts.
I hope you are able to acquire your own Alphaservers and whatever other
techno-toys you covet in the near future.
All the Best,
Jim
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:58 PM Andrew Luke Nesbit <
ullbeking at andrewnesbit.org> wrote:
Dear Richard,
Thank you for replying in such a considered way. Please see below for
comments.
On 25/01/2019 00:07, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
All of you have at one time expressed interest in
all or part of this
rack full of Alphaservers and one of you even talked about driving a
truck
up from Montana and taking it all home.
All I can think of at this moment is how beautiful it must be to go on a
road trip in Montana.
Are any of you still interested?
I remain tremendously interested in learning about AlphaServers and
acuiring another one or two.
But I live in London, UK. I was considering paying for the cheapest
slow seamail. Other people have less crazy ideas. I doubt that my idea
is appealing to Richard either.
First priority goes to anybody willing to come up
here and pick up all
or part of the collection. I will consider shipping if that is what it
comes down to but the packing and transprotation will be expensive for
the DS15 and extremely expensive for the other units.
From reading the rest of this thread, it looks as though you've already
found your collector/s and arranged a date.
I'm very happy that these are going to a good home. It's fabulous that
the flame is carrying on.
For future reference, if anybody sees AlphaServers or similarly
interesting hardware closer to home (UK or EU), then please do let me
know! Thank you!!
Kind regards,
Andrew