Yes, mine is a DEC Alphastation AS 200, which means that it was intended to be a high-end workstation back about ten years ago. It has a 233 megaherz cpu, and about 80 megs of RAM. I wish I had more RAM, but mostly this does. I have two scsi drives in it with about 53 Gb of total space on them. I use both the internal NCR scsi chip and a PCI TekRam scsi controller. The machine also has a floppy and a cd rom drive (mounted scsi). I boot off the cd rom. The coolest thing, in a way, is that there's an isa slot where my internal Doubletalk lives. I have no video on board, because I pulled the video card that came with this unit in favor of a 3com ethernet card for a second ethernet port to serve my local lan. Speakup talks nicely over the Doubletalk using the "dummy video" capibility in Linux. Very cool. I have a ups on this system and it reliably restarts if my power goes down. However, it's not safe to warm restart this system remotely, because it won't come back. I learned that the hard way. Of course, it doesn't need restarting except for a new Linux kernel (mostly). What I have not succeeded activating on this system is the builtin audio which is also isa. I may try again with a 2.6 kernel. I should add, though, that I've only tried using the supplied configure scripts for various alsa deb packages. I have not tried compiling from scratch for alsa audio. What this system is doing for me includes: mail with sendmail -- mostly for myself. web server with apache for myself and several other domains dns for a few domains that I host. omc;idomg rednote.net. When I travel, I log into this box over ssh if I have reasonable speed wherever I happen to be. I especially like the 'ssh -R' switch for providing reliable secure access to my traveling portable for anyone that needs to reach that system while I'm on the road. Works like a charm and always at the same telnet localhost port. Very cool. If my net speed is lousy on the road, I do background, encrypted and authenticated email access. In other words, my portable system runs sendmail but only sends via an authenticated connection to this alpha box. This also lets me build up a queue of mail while I'm disconnected that I can push when next I'm online. Shaun Oliver writes: > From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > > I had my chance to aquire a dec alpha I tell ya what for 30 bux, I couldn't complain.. > if the opportunity presents itself again, I'll be aquiring one of these babies.
