free Alpha machines

Robin Humble rjh-tkNKonCg4laeFQavDyXPBQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 21 20:08:53 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:54:27PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:45:49PM -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
>> They are ev56 21164a AlphaPC(?) 164UX machines at 533MHz but
>> overclocked to 600. 64M of RAM, and most with a 3.2G IDE disk. They
>Darn it for tempting me.  I don't have any alphas.
>
>I have Sun 3/50 and 3/60s, Decstation 5000s (mips 3000), Amiga 500s (No
>linux without an MMU on those), an SGI (which can't run linux at this
>time).

I collect old SGIs myself. a few Indys (one debian, one dual boot RedHat
and IRIX), Indigo2s, an Indigo, and a Crimson.

>But I would have to get downtown, and my wife would complain about yet
>more computers in the house... :)

ah. yes, that sounds familiar :)

>Hmm, thinking about it at least.

these Alphas are just beige boxes on the outside, so nothing special to
look at. Only interesting if you put in a bit more ram, a newer OS, and
then have the time to play with them...

BTW, most/all of them have already been spoken for.

cheers,
robin
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