In the Alpha stable I have a 1000A fully loaded with SSB and an external SSB enclosure running VMS 7.3. I also have the desktop 3000/600 which was bought for my PhD work with 2GB external DAT and 24 bit graphics. I have two rackmount 3000/600s and a 3000/800.
I've been planning on downsizing for a while, I'll keep the desktop 3000/600 but will be looking to shift the rest. I had a buyer for the 1000A a while back but couldn't get it shipped - he was going to give me £250 for it. I am willing to give away the 3000/800 but it can't be shipped. The developer of the TB-USB card was earmarked for that one but he is in Germany and it's just very difficult to get a machine with that weight shipped. Regards, Mark. Windermere, UK. On 19 March 2018 at 16:22, Rob Jarratt via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas > > Taylor via cctalk > > Sent: 19 March 2018 15:39 > > To: Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: AlphaServers > > > > Anyone out there do Alphas anymore? > > > > I suppose it depends on what you mean by "do". Do you mean is anyone > selling them, using them for real work or just using them as a hobbyist? I > do the last of these (occasionally). > > Regards > > Rob > > > > I have a running; > > > > 1000A 4/266 with 384MB Ram an full compliment of Storage Works disks (has > > redundant power supplies and a nice roll around cabinet) > > > > 3000-300 booting from a SCSI2SD disk, (this is nice since it is kind of > light and > > can be picked up and moved easily) > > > > 3000-400 booting from a SCSI2SD disk. (this thing is quite heavy, built > with > > heavy think metal to support a equally heavy monitor placed on top) > > > > All running hobbyist OpenVMS 8.4, an one VRC16 DEC color monitor. > > > > The only part that failed was in the 3000-400, the I/O module (runs > network, > > serial, SCSI, video, etc) was faulty and kept the power supply from > starting up. > > > > These 64 bit machines are an interesting compliment to the 32 bit VAXes I > > have, 4000/400, 3100/M76, MVII, 40000VLC and the 16 bit PDP-11's. > > > > Doug > >
