[rescue] Last Call for ordering your Alpha system

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Oct 28 12:40:02 CDT 2006


Fri, 27 Oct 2006 @ 18:06 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:08:14PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > It's sad to see yet another non-X86 architecture go away.
> 
> I'm spending the evening building up (installing a 40G IDE hard drive 
> an 48X CD-ROM) and installing CentOS 4.3 on my "new" Alpha 164LX 
> system.  533Mhz, 1G RAM, Tulip ethernet.  I got it for "cost of shipping".
> 
> Used to be a system named "radon" at CMU.
> 
> I'll be using it for Lisp development and just general messing around.

Neat.

I used to have one but moved to Sun and PC instead.  I wish I'd kept it.


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