[vcf-midatlantic] AlphaServers free to a good home

[Vincent B]

I'm interested! Where exactly are you located?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 10:09 AM David Riley via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I’m moving down to Maryland in about a month and the new house doesn’t
> have quite as much basement space as the old one. I need to thin the herd a
> bit.
>
> I have two AlphaServers I’d be glad to pass on to a good home; one 2100
> (with one CPU, 2GB RAM) and one 1000A (which I think has 64MB RAM, but see
> below).
>
> The 1000A has a slightly flaky CPU (EV4/266) which might just need to be
> reseated or might need replacing; it was working fine a year ago, but is
> now stopping partway through the boot sequence. If you’re able to source
> it, it can take a much faster EV5 CPU and a lot more RAM.
>
> I have quite a few spare drives for both, which is good because they’re
> SCSI drives that are starting to drop like flies. The DEC drive carriers
> are just sliiiightly offset from standard SCSI spacing, which makes it
> difficult to swap other drives in.
>
> Anyway, I’d love to see these go to a good home; I don’t have time for
> them at the moment, and I definitely don’t have space for them (the 2100 is
> the size of a small dorm fridge, and the 1000A is like a double-wide full
> tower, mostly owing to the space for disks in both; unloaded, they’re not
> super heavy, but big enough to be awkward). I did fit both of them along
> with some other servers in the back seat and trunk of a 2006 Honda Civic a
> while ago, though, so they’re transportable.
>
> Let me know if you’d like them. I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it out
> to the workshop on the 17th, and everything needs to be out of the house by
> the 14th, so please be able to pick it up from Philadelphia (if someone is
> willing to store it in escrow for me so much the better).
>
>
> - Dave