Re: proposition: let's build a linux alpha box from surplus parts

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From: Stuffed Crust
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00

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Wes Younger <wy8@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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.

> 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).

Well, if they surplussed it, then it's not exactly a state machine any
longer, is it?

 - Pizza
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