[PLUG] Interesting/Historica box - Digital Dec Alpha free to good home

[Mel Andres]

alan wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Mel Andres wrote:
>
>> John Purser wrote:
>>
>>> I've got an odd box here that I can't use but I thought someone in this
>>> group might be interested in it.  It's a Digital computer running (I
>>> believe) an older version of Redhat.  I hate to toss it out but can't
>>> really justify keeping it.  Anyone interested?
>>>
>>> John Purser
>>>
>>>
>> My wife will want to kill me. But, I'll raise my hand. If nothing 
>> else, I could give it to Free Geek after I mess with it.
>
>
> Or you could talk to Poweel's Tech books and see if they want it for 
> their collection of ancient equiptment.  (I have a Sparcbook I need to 
> take over there.)
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I won't have much time to play with it, and 
that's better than scrapping it. I'm an ex-DEC field service guy back 
when the VAX 11780 was king and the first 1 MIP processor. I have a 2.0 
GHz Celeron laptop rated 2449 MIPS, and that's considered old.  :)

Mel