Speaking of raising money ...

[unixronin]

...anyone need any DEC hardware?  I have three Digital Alphaservers here that we can't spare the power to run and don't have any OS media for right now anyway (one fully-loaded 4100, one fairly-stripped 4100, and one semi-stripped 2100), plus more DEC StorageWorks arrays, controllers and rackmount kits than you can shake a stick at.  (There's, like, 10 disk arrays and 8 SCSI RAID controllers.)  Any or all of'em can be yours for a song, and the truth is, if we can't find anyone who wants the stuff, most of it (at least the two stripped Alpha Servers) will probably end up being scrapped.

(I might still try to load the "good" 4100 up as far as I possibly can with the available parts and see if I can get it running, but not until we're somewhere with better power than here.)

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[iphy.livejournal.com]

The OS issue is not one. If you're interested in trying to get linux installed on one, ping me for rth's email address. Both he and the SubG have done it recently.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, AlphaLinux would be easy to get hold of. (Well, relatively.... I'm not actually sure which current distros support Alpha.) But if I'm going to bring up one of the Alphaservers, the obvious thing to do would be to put Tru64 on it under the hobbyist license and get another OS under my belt.