Anyone collect Dec/Compaq Alphaservers or VAXen

I have a 3000/300X, AS1000A 5/333, VX42 Multia, EB164-based-system, and an AlphaServer 2100 4/275RM that's probably going to be parted out (too big, I have no racks, and periodically I have to open it up and tap on the CBUS-I/O backplane connection). If anyone's interested . . . Alphas are nice machines, fast, interesting, and SRM is nice and pretty standard, so no more "what's the console support on this model?" moments. Bad side - WNT and the NT-only models. Half-flash can make for some fun times, too, but the only machine I have with half-flash is the EB164. The one I've had the most problems with is probably the VX42 - for some reason, when the PROMs are loaded with the OVMS-capable SRM and the battery dies, it will not come back up until the PROMS are re-flashed to the old Multia firmware and updated again. This took some figuring out... I have a brace of VAXen, too (one 3100/76 and one 4000/200), both of which are run off of serial (there really isn't much of a reason to have graphics on a VAX anyway). My biggest surprise was the fact that the 4k (SOC, 5VUPS) is often as responsive as the 3100/76 (Rigel, 7.6 VUPS). I wouldn't advise a Qbus-based machine for a first-timer, since disks are hard to come by (fortunately Boeing had a HSD-05 in their $5 bin that I was able to hack up into the BA430 chassis. For some reason the disks don't register sometimes at first power-on- perhaps I need to wire in a reset button for the HSD- I'm not sure there). Naturally :-) .