free Alpha machines

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:08:53PM -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
> I collect old SGIs myself. a few Indys (one debian, one dual boot RedHat
> and IRIX), Indigo2s, an Indigo, and a Crimson.

Yeah I have an IP21 (I think it is) indigo with an XS24Z video card and
a 20" screen (aka mitsubishi HL7965 as far as I remember).  The
decstations run Debian, while the suns could run debian, I have never
used them for anything other than X terminals (19" mono works fine for
that), using a SunOS4 based Xserver netboot.

> ah. yes, that sounds familiar :)
> 
> 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.

That's probably for the best. :)  I need to replace the drive on the SGI
after the HD started making unhappy sounds and then stopped making those
sounds a few days later (along with stopping making the normal happy hd
sounds).  I know I have some 50pin scsi drives around somewhere...

Lennart Sorensen
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