Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

[Jacob Ritorto]

There are contractors who have the hardware to correctly and contractually
perform mil spec data wipe in situations like this.
More thorough than leaving sitting on some shelf and crossing fingers that
one will find time to burn them or whatever.


On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:02 PM 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
>