19 Mar
2018
19 Mar
'18
9:22 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Douglas
Taylor via cctalk
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