Re: DEC alphas

["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: DEC alphas


> I must confess to wanting an Alpha, but sadly there just doesn't seem
> to be enough competition in the market. Compusys the only vendor I've
> come across has had the same price and system spec for it's Linux
> workstation for at least 6 months on it's website. It's fairly nice EV5
> machine on offer. My plan is to wait till the EV7's come out (end of
> this Year I think) then hopefully get a cheapish EV6 and UP1000 mobo.
> then I should just be able to reuse most of the gear I have in this
> box. the problem will be finding someone, in this country willing to
> sell me one. firsthardware.co.uk seem to be the main trade dealer in
> this country. The LX mobo has gone end of life so if you can find one
> it shouldn't be that expensive. you can get all the specs at
> alpha-processor.com.
> If you do find anyone selling these do tell :-)
>
> Simon

It would be nice to get hold of an older 21164 & AlphaPC 164 / 164SX / 164LX
but it looks like it's gonna cost megabucks unless you strike it lucky on
the second hand market. There's a couple at eBay for $300+ with 533MHz chips
but shipping/not knowing who you are dealing with is sooo much hassle...

Soddit it'll prolly be cheaper to buy a sparc
http://www.speedie.co.uk/sun.htm back in my hometown of Brum

at least you get the benefit of not being able to run NT4 :)

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198



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