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So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by sampsa＠mac.com

What the hell? 11 Kilodollars for a RX2660?? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Integrity-rx2660-Itanium-Server-AD245A-AB419A-… On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:35, Sampsa Laine wrote: Cool machine, 24 GB of RAM too, that's pretty chunky. RHESUS has about 8 GB I think. No PSUs - are those hard to come by? Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:29, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 16:28, Sampsa Laine wrote: Where can you get them for 100 quid? I'd love a second Itanium box. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark. I've seen them come and go on ebay recently, maybe a little over 100 actually, but around that ball park. One on at the moment for 149.99 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ZX6000-Workstation-A9664A-Dual-Itanium-2-CPUs-…

14 years, 2 months

So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Cool machine, 24 GB of RAM too, that's pretty chunky. RHESUS has about 8 GB I think. No PSUs - are those hard to come by? Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:29, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 16:28, Sampsa Laine wrote: Where can you get them for 100 quid? I'd love a second Itanium box. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark. I've seen them come and go on ebay recently, maybe a little over 100 actually, but around that ball park. One on at the moment for 149.99 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ZX6000-Workstation-A9664A-Dual-Itanium-2-CPUs-…

14 years, 2 months

Haul of DEC gear

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 16:28, Gregg Levine wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 07/05/11 17:04, Mark Wickens wrote: Met up with Colin Butcher of X-Delta last night in Manchester to obtain a BA356 and some 36GB SBBs - he also gave me a couple of boxes of SCSI cables and Option cards, including SCSI and fibre-channel cards, HVD->LVD converts, BA rack personality modules, BA power supplies some CPUs (ES40 I think). A box of DEC option catalogs, a load of DEC Technical Journals, some old DEC related technical documentation (including some really nice marketing material for VAXstations and VAXes). I will try and get some of the nicer documentation scanned. I have yet to sort through everything, may take a while, but if anyone has any specific requests I will take those on board once I've cataloged everything. He wants stuff to go to a good home, and I said I would oblige if possible for the bits I don't need or can't use. Regards, Mark. There wouldn't happen to be any video cables for a VAXstation 4000/90 in there? Johnny Hello! Or how about anything concerning a DEC Terminal Server Model 90L+? Plus those MMJ cables they use. I have a couple of 90L+ terminal servers kicking around somewhere...

14 years, 2 months

So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 16:28, Sampsa Laine wrote: Where can you get them for 100 quid? I'd love a second Itanium box. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark. I've seen them come and go on ebay recently, maybe a little over 100 actually, but around that ball park. One on at the moment for 149.99 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ZX6000-Workstation-A9664A-Dual-Itanium-2-CPUs-…

14 years, 2 months

Haul of DEC gear

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 07/05/11 17:04, Mark Wickens wrote: Met up with Colin Butcher of X-Delta last night in Manchester to obtain a BA356 and some 36GB SBBs - he also gave me a couple of boxes of SCSI cables and Option cards, including SCSI and fibre-channel cards, HVD->LVD converts, BA rack personality modules, BA power supplies some CPUs (ES40 I think). A box of DEC option catalogs, a load of DEC Technical Journals, some old DEC related technical documentation (including some really nice marketing material for VAXstations and VAXes). I will try and get some of the nicer documentation scanned. I have yet to sort through everything, may take a while, but if anyone has any specific requests I will take those on board once I've cataloged everything. He wants stuff to go to a good home, and I said I would oblige if possible for the bits I don't need or can't use. Regards, Mark. There wouldn't happen to be any video cables for a VAXstation 4000/90 in there? Johnny Hello! Or how about anything concerning a DEC Terminal Server Model 90L+? Plus those MMJ cables they use. -- ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

14 years, 2 months

So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Where can you get them for 100 quid? I'd love a second Itanium box. Sampsa On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Mark Wickens wrote: On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark.

14 years, 2 months

AlphaServer 1000A memory?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Whilst I'm thinking about it, does anyone have any Alphaserver 1000A memory kicking around. I started getting a bit parity error a couple of days ago (which the box helpfully pinpointed to an individual SIMM) but had to pull all four SIMMs in the bank. The part number I'm looking for is: 50-21276-01-02, it's a 8MB x 36 SIMM 60ns EDO FPM, also listed as being for an AlphaServer 200 4/233. Alternatively, a set of four SIMMs in either of the following formats would be great: 54-21225-BA 1 x 4MB SIMM 54-21246-BA 1 x 8MB SIMM 54-23170-BA 1 x 16MB SIMM 54-21277-BA 1 x 32MB SIMM 54-24123-AA 1 x 64 MB SIMM Regards, Mark.

14 years, 2 months

Haul of DEC gear

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 07/05/11 17:04, Mark Wickens wrote: Met up with Colin Butcher of X-Delta last night in Manchester to obtain a BA356 and some 36GB SBBs - he also gave me a couple of boxes of SCSI cables and Option cards, including SCSI and fibre-channel cards, HVD->LVD converts, BA rack personality modules, BA power supplies some CPUs (ES40 I think). A box of DEC option catalogs, a load of DEC Technical Journals, some old DEC related technical documentation (including some really nice marketing material for VAXstations and VAXes). I will try and get some of the nicer documentation scanned. I have yet to sort through everything, may take a while, but if anyone has any specific requests I will take those on board once I've cataloged everything. He wants stuff to go to a good home, and I said I would oblige if possible for the bits I don't need or can't use. Regards, Mark. There wouldn't happen to be any video cables for a VAXstation 4000/90 in there? Johnny

14 years, 2 months

So who's looking forward to all the cheap second-hand Itanium gear that will soon be flooding the market?

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 05/07/11 15:15, Mark Benson wrote: I strongly suspect that's one reason I got my zx6000 so cheap. Itanium is about to become an ex-technology I suspect! Incidentally, if anyone comes across front, top and side covers and the steel pedestal stand for a zx6000 I need them. ZX6000 were primarily Windows server workstations - they didn't ever really fit a defined niche as far as I can tell. I bought mine about 4 years ago for GBP 500 which was as much as I was prepared to pay at the time. They are going now for around GBP 100 depending on the configuration. Mine was maxed out with memory and came with drives, so I guess that's worth something. Luckily they still run OpenVMS, otherwise your options are very limited - various linux flavours sort of work, but I believe gentoo is the only one still currently being maintained. I know the hardware is not the greatest, but it's a shame it hasn't been better supported, given that it is a true 64 bit architecture. But then, what do I know... I just love anything that is different or esoteric - which firmly makes me *not* the man in the street. Mark.

14 years, 2 months

Haul of DEC gear

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Met up with Colin Butcher of X-Delta last night in Manchester to obtain a BA356 and some 36GB SBBs - he also gave me a couple of boxes of SCSI cables and Option cards, including SCSI and fibre-channel cards, HVD->LVD converts, BA rack personality modules, BA power supplies some CPUs (ES40 I think). A box of DEC option catalogs, a load of DEC Technical Journals, some old DEC related technical documentation (including some really nice marketing material for VAXstations and VAXes). I will try and get some of the nicer documentation scanned. I have yet to sort through everything, may take a while, but if anyone has any specific requests I will take those on board once I've cataloged everything. He wants stuff to go to a good home, and I said I would oblige if possible for the bits I don't need or can't use. Regards, Mark.

14 years, 2 months

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