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. For example I have here a SUN UltraSPARC 5 machine who happens to be about that size and is currently working headless, and serving as my website manager (hosting entity and server for same.) it happens to be so quiet the only way I'd know that the fellow is working is that I promptly logon to the unit every few hours via SSH or bring up the site on the browser. Certainly reasonable even if that's just about the worst machine Sun ever built. ;) I'll bring some good (small) Sun hardware to the next VCFe for you. I'm trying to find a keyboard for the fellow so I can also use it as a regular workstation, so far my regular source has not responded. A Sun keyboard? I'm swimming in them. Send me your shipping address. What I'd really like to do is to find another one, plus a keyboard, and a terminal server that SUN made once. Having obtained them I would simply configure Number Two as a webserver with its console out line connected to that TS unit. Number One would become a regular workstation. I don't recall Sun ever having made a terminal server. But, I do have probably a hundred Sun systems here, from 1U rackmount to 1800lb machines with 64 CPUs. I don't have many Alphas nowadays, and the one small one I do have (the aforementioned DS10L) is in use, so I can't help you there, at least not right now. Maybe I need to ship you a care package. Send me your address. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA