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-…