4 Jun
2019
4 Jun
'19
12:32 p.m.
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested in an AlphaServer ES47, for
approximately $500 obo?
12:43 p.m.
Oregon
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From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 9:43 AM
To: Benjamin Huntsman; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: AlphaServer ES47 in Portland
On Jun 4, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Benjamin Huntsman via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested in an AlphaServer ES47, for
approximately $500 obo?
Which Portland?
paul
2:12 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:32 AM Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested in an AlphaServer ES47, for
approximately $500 obo?
Sure, I'd sell a two box 4 processor AlphaServer ES47 for $500 obo in
Seattle, which is within driving distance of Portland.
Oh, you mean buy one, not sell one. Nevermind. :)
Neat and one of the fastest AlphaServers you could get before Alphas
disappeared, but big, heavy, and loud.
3:50 p.m.
Actually, it?s tons of fun and was kinda one of my dream systems. The system architecture
is interesting and I have the NAT box to go with it and everything. It has some fibre
cards and a Gigabit Ethernet card too.
It?s very loud at startup, but it?s tolerable once it calms down. Less noisy than my 1U
Cisco fibre channel switch.
I don?t really want to sell it, but I will be moving soon, and as you pointed out, it is
quite heavy. Somewhere around 125 lbs.
-Ben
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On Jun 4, 2019, at 11:13 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:32 AM Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested in an AlphaServer ES47, for
approximately $500 obo?
Sure, I'd sell a two box 4 processor AlphaServer ES47 for $500 obo in
Seattle, which is within driving distance of Portland.
Oh, you mean buy one, not sell one. Nevermind. :)
Neat and one of the fastest AlphaServers you could get before Alphas
disappeared, but big, heavy, and loud.
5:19 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:50 PM Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
I don?t really want to sell it, but I will be moving soon, and as you pointed out, it is
quite heavy. Somewhere around 125 lbs.
The manual says 132 pounds maximum configuration for a single 2
processor box. I imagine almost all of them would have been rack
mounted. They had a "tower" configuration, but with a 3 foot long box
that's a rather awkward shaped tower.
The interprocessor cables to connect multiple boxes together (up to
four 2 processor boxes as an 8 CPU ES80) are about an inch thick.
4:18 p.m.
Hi Benjamin,
I?m a high school teacher and am building up a computing lab with donated
and other items out of my own pocket. This would be perfect, especially
with the networking hardware, as I have a few ES45s and a RAID disk array.
I?m in Montana, but, school just got out and going to the coast when it
starts getting hot here is always nice. I will be in Vancouver, WA (not
BC, unfortunately), on 8/8 - 8/9 for a teacher professional development
event. When do you need it to disappear?
All the Best,
Jim
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:32 AM Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested
in an AlphaServer
ES47, for approximately $500 obo?
4:26 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:32 AM Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone in the general vicinity of Portland interested in an AlphaServer ES47, for
approximately $500 obo?
That sounds like a fun system but a bit newer than I'm used to (I
think the last one I touched in the wild was an ES20 in 2003).
-ethan
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