[HECnet] VMS on AlphaServer 5000

Buy the bike Keith! On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 12:00, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org <mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>> wrote: Hi, I?ve trawled through HECnet emails for enlightenment around alpha systems running VMS and I believe I?m not repeating the question. So here goes. There?s an DEC Alphaserver 5000 (white case) (EV56) floating a few miles away from where I live. It?s running NT, so there?s an AlphaBIOS. Is there a ?hidden? SRM in that machine and therefore is it able to run current (HPE at least) versions of VMS? I don?t want to end up with a machine running NT ? my life has enough horror in it already. I had a look on HP?s FTP site at firmware updates and the Alphaserver 5000 isn?t even mentioned, or at least not in plain text. I nearly bought a reasonably loaded Itanic RX2600 a few days ago but chickened out at the last minute. What I really should do is abandon all of this and buy a new motorbike. Keith