If the "fiddling" is similar to what is necessary to run VMS on the white box alphas then have a look at http://home.zonnet.nl/hvlems The white box alphas were tergeted at the WNT market. Adding two srm parameters works wonders for VMS. It does not involve hardware mods and AFAIK the mods are completely reversible. Hans PS Sent from my cell phone which will undoubtedly upset some systems. Sorry, I'm 600 kms from home. -----Original Message----- From: "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:30:11 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] AXP Emulation - 1U Alpha systems. On 8/9/12 11:00 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On 08/09/2012 10:54 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Dave did the Alpha family come in a 1U size? Yes, the DS10L comes to mind. My HECnet node AXPEE:: is one of those. They are EV6-based (nice and quick!) and are available clocked at 466MHz and 600MHz. There are other 1U models, but that's the one I'm most familiar with. If so could said system be considered to be a quiet one? Eh, so-so.