On 01/12/2013 04:57 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Schweet! I didn't know you had two!
No, the second one is the one I'm going to 'come across' in the
future :) Sorry to raise your hopes.
Grrrr. ;)
This one came out of an old
sawmill in town a few years ago - I got a phone call saying that they
had heard that there was "some old mainframe crap" getting scrapped
at the sawmill and heard that I was one of those crazy collectors.
!!
WTF? Since when is an Alpha storage array "old", "mainframe", or
"crap"? I hate stupid people. But sometimes their stupidity gets
thinking people good, high-end hardware.
By the time I got there, the drive array and some documentation was
all that was left. It lied around my garage for a year or so, then
spurred me into getting the DS10L to give it something to hook up
to.
Nice. The Alpha it was originally connected to probably went to a
dealer for big bucks.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 2013-01-12, at 1:51 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Schweet! I didn't know you had two!
No, the second one is the one I'm going to 'come across' in the future :) Sorry to raise your hopes. This one came out of an old sawmill in town a few years ago - I got a phone call saying that they had heard that there was "some old mainframe crap" getting scrapped at the sawmill and heard that I was one of those crazy collectors. By the time I got there, the drive array and some documentation was all that was left. It lied around my garage for a year or so, then spurred me into getting the DS10L to give it something to hook up to.
Ian
On 01/12/2013 04:53 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
If you come across a spare HSZ80, let me know! ;) > > Once I strip
it of drives to fill up mine, you can have it :)
Schweet! I didn't know you had two!
Do you already have one? Or, are you not interested in multi-path.
I don't have one. I'd like to put a smallish redundant disk array on
my DS10L. Not particularly interested in multi-path at this point, at
least not on that machine.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:
On 01/12/2013 04:50 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: >> AXPEE, 61.2, is also a
DS10L. :-) > > It's funny, the DS10L is considered a 'low-end' Alpha
box, but it's the most powerful VMS machine I run :)
I think it's "low-end" in everything but CPU. Those boxes are -fast-.
If you come across a spare HSZ80, let me know! ;) > > Once I strip
it of drives to fill up mine, you can have it :)
Schweet! I didn't know you had two!
Do you already have one? Or, are you not interested in multi-path.
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
On 01/12/2013 04:50 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
AXPEE, 61.2, is also a DS10L. :-)
It's funny, the DS10L is considered a 'low-end' Alpha box, but it's the most powerful VMS machine I run :)
I think it's "low-end" in everything but CPU. Those boxes are -fast-.
If you come across a spare HSZ80, let me know! ;)
Once I strip it of drives to fill up mine, you can have it :)
Schweet! I didn't know you had two!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 2013-01-12, at 1:28 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
AXPEE, 61.2, is also a DS10L. :-)
It's funny, the DS10L is considered a 'low-end' Alpha box, but it's the most powerful VMS machine I run :)
If you come across a spare HSZ80, let me know! ;)
Once I strip it of drives to fill up mine, you can have it :)
Ian
Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> writes:
confuced, box is not in my sight, but it has 2G of memory and the memory
sticks are on the mother board. It says compac on it.
Are you sure? 310-EAs don't function in the DS10L I have.
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VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> writes:
On 2013-01-12, at 1:08 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> wrote:
=20 > I have a "DS20" it;s a 1U alpha box, IDE and SCSI disk
intgerface, two = Alpha > CPU's and two 100M Ethernet.=20 >=20 > What
DEC SW can I run (and who has it?) >=20 > -P
BET:: 42.42 is a DS10L - the baby brother to yours. This was my first =
(and so far only) forray into Alpha processors. VMS for Alpha works =
just great on it. There's a hobbyist image floating around.
Not bad little 1U units. The IDE is slow but usable. The sad thing is
that the unit cannot accept more than 1GB of memory (with lid closed).
The little right-angle memory risers permit 2x512GB DIMMs. Also, you
can not use the 1GB DIMMs that work in the Alpha DS bigger bretheren.
You can, however, populate the DS10L with 4x512GB DIMM if you remove
the right-angle risers. The problem is that you cannot them close the
DS10L lid. I know one fellow who nibbled an opening in the lid and
build a cover to maintain proper cooling airflow.
confuced, box is not in my sight, but it has 2G of memory and the
memory sticks are on the mother board. It says compac on it.
-P
On 12.1.2013 22:08, Peter Lothberg wrote:
I have a "DS20" it;s a 1U alpha box, IDE and SCSI disk intgerface, two Alpha
CPU's and two 100M Ethernet.
What DEC SW can I run (and who has it?)
-P
.
Must be a DS20L. No other boxes than the "L" models are 1U units.
You can run VMS, Tru64unix and OpenBSD on it. Older versions of Linux might be possible also.
I have most AXP VMS kits and Tru64 kits.
If you want some version, just tell me and I'll prepare a copy for you.
Regards,
Kari
