17 Dec
2018
17 Dec
'18
4:54 p.m.
Dear Richard,
As soon as I saw this message my heart skipped a few beats, merely at the _possibility_
that I might be able to share in some of this hardware.
I have been fascinated by my first HP AlphaServer DS15, ever since an acquaintance at the
local hackspace kindly gave it to me. Here are some photos:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxxkmh9fiaqdsjw/AAC5QdhR8NXE-Id5A44UYWRya?dl=0
I would love to take it all, and would gladly pay for shipping and insurance to the UK.
But I don't want to be greedy either. Maybe there are other people on this list who
would like to, or ought to, experience the same exhilaration as owning an AS.
Having a small cluster of AlphaServers, plus RAID server and fibre switches, fits in SO
PERFECTLY with my side project; it's about formalising methods for distributed
computation and then making a libre-friendly distributed computing environment available
to interested users in a communal or co-operative environment. I'm currently
preparing the x86 portion of the overall project for shipping to colo.
Several AS'es in an HA, resilient setup would be such a perfect complement.
Please let me what you think! I value comments and questions from all.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Sent from my mobile phone
On 17 Dec 2018, at 23:02, Richard Loken via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server,
and the associated fibre switches in need of a new home.
There three servers that were running Tru64 Unix 5 when shut down a week
ago, they are a DS15, and two ES45s. There is also a third ES45 which
has not run in a decade and was kept around as a cold spare.
None of the RA8000 disk will be available because the present owner is
protecting his data (of course) but all of the unused spare disks are
available and they will fit the internal slots in the DS15 and ES45s
which may or may not have disks depending on the whim of the present owner.
Lots of paper docs and Tru64 OS installation kits but no licenses.
They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black