Anybody interested in mucking about with an Alpha box ?
I have a spare one now due to an upgrade, AlphaServer 1000
Big unit but not as noisy or power hungry/space heating as it looks.
1GB of RAM, complete with ECC parity modules. 266 Mhz Alpha processor (a bit faster than it sounds) 7 hot swap bays ( a selection of drives will be supplied to go in these, mostly 2.1GB units but I do have at least one 4.3 to go in there) Dat drive (untested)
Had it running the Debian alpha port...it can also run OpenVMS (hobby licence is available for free still I think) and Tru64 (again you'll need a licence) or Windows NT (not much point, there are hardly any binaries available) or BSD
Unit is currently set to a local (VGA monitor PS2 KB/mouse) console but I can reconfigure for serial console if required.
ECU floppy included for hardware configuration and I'll shove in a Ethernet card that Debian understands easily.
Any offer considered...otherwise it is going on Ebay
Also may have a DSSI disk array/host adaptor and disks, depending on if I get time to wipe them...However these need the Array controllers reconfiguring (which requires a special serial lead) and I have never been able to get the adaptors to play on Debian anyway. Also they are 6x2.1GB which hardly seems worth the effort.