[rescue] alphaserver 4100

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:12 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Yes. I call this "component magnetism". If you have a part of a system
> or a system that is missing some important parts, just be patient.

   Yes. :-)

> All you need to get a complete working system will come to you
> with time. (Remembering my first QBus VAX. A MV II without disk...
> that has now several GB of disk space as well as a MV III CPU.
> Or my PDP 11. Started as a /23 with broken CPU and SLU, now a /73
> with 4 MB RAM, EDSI disk, ...)

   Water it twice a day, and look what happens. ;)

> Hmmm. A AS4100 with 4 x 440 MHz EV5 CPUs. A dream machine.

   I'm very happy; I can't wait until it arrives.  Gonna hook up my big 
FC-AL array to it and I'll be a file-servin' bitch.  Then I'll have an 
AS800 for sale.

> Only toped by a DEC 8000.

   Hmm, never used one.  Tasty?

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
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