[CLUE-Tech] Dec Alpha computers

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Haley, Mike wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I would like to find out if there is any interest among the LUG in having
> Dec Alpha computers for cheap or free.

Heck Yeah!

> I just acquired over 30 of these computers and would like to find good homes
> for them.  The computers are Dec Alphastation 255, running at 233Mhz, with
> 64 meg ram, 2 ea. 1 gig HD (SCSI), a CD-rom (SCSI), a floppy,  a VGA card,
> external connector for SCSI (termination attached), connectors for 2 serial
> & 1 parallel port, built in ethernet and build in sound device.  No monitors
> or keyboards or mice but work with standard PS/2.
>
> I checked on the vendor links at debian.org and found Linux releases from
> Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake and SUSe for the Alpha but have not acquired any
> yet.
>
> If your are interested in having one of these or think I should bring some
> in for door prizes please let me know.

I'd love to have one, right now Alpha is one of the few platforms
that Linux runs on that I haven't tried. Let me know how much you want
for one or two of them.

Thanks!

Zonker
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