I have an AlphaStation 200 4/233 which was given to me without a video
board or floppy drive. I stuck an old Teac FD-235HF in the floppy bay to
fill the hole (no data cable), but have no idea what I really need for a
video board.
I'm planning to use this machine as a low end testbed machine for Debian
Linux since the Alpha port needs to be brought back up, so I know I
probably need a board that can handle more than 256 colors. I think this
eliminates the ZLXp-E1 (TGA 8-plane), but at the same time it may be a
good idea to be able to test with a TGA board as well since there are
going to be quite a few of these machines out there which have a TGA
board.
I will probably also want to run ULTRIX or OSF/1 on the machine at some
point, assuming I can find installation media.
Based on the datasheet I found online, these appear to have been (some?)
of the video boards offered as options for this system:
ZLXp-E1 8-plane PBXGA-AA PBXGA-AN [NT]
ZLXp-E2 24-plane PBXGA-BA PBXGA-BN [NT]
ZLXp-E3 24-plane PBXGA-CA PBXGA-CN [NT]
ZLXp-L1 24-plane PBXGC-AA
ZLXp-L2 24-plane PBXGC-BA
Does anyone have an extra video board laying around that they would be
willing to part with for postage costs? This machine has been sitting
unused for far too long and I'd really like to put it to work.