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Article #8571proposition: let's build a linux alpha box from surplus parts
From: Wes Younger
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00
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OK.. my department just surplussed an Alpha clone. The guy says he couldn't get it to work, and I don't know that much about it... except that it was damn fast when we bought it in '97. They've already cannibalized almost everything out of it. It's got a single DEC Alpha on the clone board... sorta kinda PC but not exactly :) I think it has 128 meg of RAM, and it's got a network card. It's in a nice case with PS, aux. fan, and floppy. I *think* this architecture requires SCSI.. not sure. If anybody knows anything about these, I'd love to put Humpty Dumpty back together and put it to use. It could run Linux or NT 4.0, and I would be happy to put it on the network and give all the accounts you want in exchange for helping me make it work. Note that in my comments about this, this is a state machine... that's probably not an issue as far as usage or bandwidth, but it probably couldn't go home and you probably wouldn't want to put personal money/parts into it (at least not if you wanted them back). It's a long shot... but I hate to just let this thing rot if it can be brought back to life. -Wes
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