VSI has a community license program now. That?ll get you both a license and media:
https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2020-07-28-community-license/
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Peter
Lothberg
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 7:55 PM
To: hecnet <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
Subject: Re: [HECnet] RE: integrity and alpha hardware
I have a "DS20". It's a 1U thing with SCSI and IDE controllers for the disk,
2 100M Ethernet and 2 serial ports,
two Alpha CPU's. Anyone that has VMS that would run on that?
-Peter
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From: "Lance Payne" <lance.payne at poorfellow.org<mailto:lance.payne at
poorfellow.org>>
To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at
Update.UU.SE>>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 4:42:03 PM
Subject: RE: [HECnet] RE: integrity and alpha hardware
There was a really nice AlphaServer clone? I tried to buy one once, but the seller never
delivered (chargeback city). Not sure if they were supported by VMS, but they were
supported by Tru64. I imagine the manufacturer went out of their way to use compatible
components where possible.
The API CS20. If I could find one, and it supported OpenVMS, I?d buy it in a heartbeat.
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
<owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>> On Behalf
Of Robert Armstrong
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 3:32 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
Subject: RE: [HECnet] RE: integrity and alpha hardware
If you want an older Alpha system for OpenVMS and
HECnet, DS10 series is a good option.
I have a DS20 (CODA:: on HECnet) and they?re really nice machines. It has IDE slots and
USB, both of which are sort of supported by VMS, redundant power supplies and fans, 4GB of
RAM, two CPUs, and other good stuff. Problem is that it uses about 350 watts just sitting
there doing nothing. It?s too expensive to leave it running all the time. But if you can
afford the electric bill then a DS10 or 20 is a nice AXP VMS machine.
BTW, if anybody has a floor pedestal for the DS20 that they?d like to get rid of. Let me
know. Mine?s a rack mount but I don?t have a spare rack space for it.
Bob