Yeah I'm going to seriously look into picking one of these up. On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:51:53PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
