Anyone collect Dec/Compaq Alphaservers or VAXen?

Well, I wouldn't say I "collect" Alphas or VAXen. But I have a handful of them. I have a MicroVAX-II (in a BA123). I have a couple of more recent VAXen which I put on the shelf when I got them and haven't yet collected the round tuits to get out and do anything with; I don't even remember their model numbers. I have a drawer full of MicroVAX-II cards (CPUs, DEQNAs, disk interfaces, tape interfaces, etc) and a spare BA123, and quite likely could assemble another machine if I wanted to. As for alphas, I have a NoName (an AXPpci33, I think, is the proper name for it). I have a PWS 600au. I have a "DEC 3000 - M300X, 175MHz". The ?V2 I almost never turn on, because I have basically no disk for it, and it's *very* slow to run it entirely diskless. One of my projects is to try to put together a simple disk interface of some sort (probably IDE), but that's very much a blue-sky project at the moment. The NoName has cooling issues. I have it in a peecee case, and to keep it from overheating I not only had to add a big fan blowing directly on the CPU and 3.3V regulator heatsinks, but also run it with the case open. It also won't reboot cleanly; if I tell it to reboot, it hangs, and I have to hard-cycle power to make it come back. I suspect this may be a legacy from having overheated to the point of crashing too many times. The 3000/M300X has been unstable too, but in rather intermittent ways, and I've mostly given up on stabilizing it. I'm not even sure whether the problems were hardware or software, though I suspect hardware. The PWS600au has been stable, and I have hopes that it will prove to be the stable-&-usable Alpha I've wanted for quite a while. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B