[Wolves] Offer: Digital Alpha Server 800 5/400

[David Morley]

well james do you want it? sorry for top post on my mobile

On 16/02/07, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Adam Sweet wrote:
> >
> > > Free to good home:
> > >
> > > 1 x Digital Alpha Server 800 5/400
> >
> > > First person to mail me back and offer to collect
> > it
> > > wins :) As I said, you need to collect this by car
> > as
> > > it's heavy.
> >
> > It's of interest to myself... You may however be
> > interested that at the
> > last LUG meeting it was suggested that we have a
> > "show-and-tell" of
> > historical computing artifacts - it might make an
> > (at least midly)
> > amusing sideshow.
>
> It's yours if you want it James as the first
> responder.
>
> I've removed the user accounts, changed the root
> password and emptied root's command history. It's
> never really been used for real work, just play, but I
> will give you the Debian Alpha 3.1 CD I installed it
> with should you wish to reinstall.
>
> Booting is interesting. It should boot from the hard
> disk by default, but I have found it hasn't been doing
> that as I've been preparing it to give away. My blog
> post explains how to tell it to boot from a particular
> disk.
>
> As far as I recall it's not actually serving anything
> and there has never been any serious data on there, so
> I'll leave Debian installed for you.
>
> Other notes include it uses an SRM console as BIOS
> type environment but also has an emulted BIOS for
> installing Windows NT for Alpha. Using the emulated
> BIOS means you can use DOS style partitions but this
> is not supported after Debian Woody. The SRM console
> allows you to install all Debian Alpha releases but
> means you have to use BSD style disklabels instead of
> DOS partitions.
>
> Either you can collect from my house by car or wait
> for the show and tell at the next meeting assuming I
> can make it and I will bring it and you can take it
> home with you.
>
> I'll have to see if I can dig out my ZX81 for the show
> and tell :)
>
> Ad
>
> --
>
> http://blog.adamsweet.org/
>
>
> 	
> 	
> 		
> ___________________________________________________________
> New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more
> at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes.
> http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wolves LUG mailing list
> Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/
> Mailing list: Wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Mailing list home: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves
>


-- 
Seek That Thy Might Know