For clarity, for those confused by it being a 1U DS20, it's probably one of these beasties, a DS20L. I DREAD to think how loud the fans are and the torrent of hot air that comes out of the back! ;)
http://mattst88.com/computers/ds20l/
If you are looking for new and shiny you can run 8.4 on it (if you can get an ISO), or 8.3 from the Hobbyist CD with the Hobbyist license.
Nice box provided it's located at the other end of the house in a well ventilated soundproof rack ;)
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Brian, what would be a good choice for a SCSI controller in a DS20E just to drive a DAT drive (VMS 8.3)?
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] My newest toy
Verzonden: 12 januari 2013 23:21
hvlems at zonnet.nl writes:
Peter wrote he had a DS20
Sorry, confused with Ian's discussion. The flu's set in here, so I'm not
been on top of the game for about a week.
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hvlems at zonnet.nl writes:
Peter wrote he had a DS20
Sorry, confused with Ian's discussion. The flu's set in here, so I'm not
been on top of the game for about a week.
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Peter wrote he had a DS20
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] My newest toy
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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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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
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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
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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.
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