[plug] Alpha details (was: Spark dead)

[Leon Brooks]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Since video is not needed for this task, I have a Digital 3000/400 (I 
> think 166 MHz Alpha) which would do the job, I think. It actually has a 
> fantastic video card but it is turbochannel, and Linux AFAIK has no 
> turbochannel drivers yet if ever. It also has 128MB of RAM and some 
> gigabytes of disk.

I lied, a bit. It appears to have 64M of SEC/DED RAM as weird 1M SIMMs. 
The disks are 2xDigital RZ26 SCSI2/9ms at 1G each (256K cache) and it 
has a SCSI CD drive. It also has a *serious* cooling system, everything 
(SIMMs and all) aligned across the box where no less than *five* large 
fans can get at it easily.

It looks like a desktop case but weighs circa 4x as much. Good old DEC 
you-ran-it-over-with-a-truck-so-what engineering. Not quite as good as 
their MilSpec PDP-8s but a different world from standard PCs.

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