I've found ebay to be a nice resource for alpha parts. also the newsgroup comp.sys.dec is pretty good for both alpha/vax parts and machines. i saw a quad processor alphaserver with something like 2.5gb ram and 2 disk arays going for $2000 in that group. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:22 AM Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha > Yeah, it really is rather cool to have one of these monsters spitting up their bios to a Braille Lite. And you really don't need a video card either. My machine doesn't have a video card--Speakup just references the dummy video driver. > > If you know Debian better, then stick with it. I believe Debian packages for Alpha are more up to date. The last Red Hat release for Alpha is 7.2, though there is some movement for porting Fedora. > > It's old hardware, though, and finding parts can be challenging. > > Alex Snow writes: > > Hi, > > I'm also looking to aquire an old alpha (the au series has caught my > > attention recently). What's the best distro one should run on these > > machines? I know debian supports alpha and I think redhat/fedora do, but > > which of those two would be the easiest to get up and running? I'm thinking > > debian because I already have a fair amount of experience with that distro. > > > > One of the reasons I'm going for the alpha (other then being cool and > > 64-bit) is the accessibility of it's hardware settings. This is the same > > with my microvax (which doesn't even have a graphics card in it) and I kind > > of like being able to modify bios settings without sited help. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
