I got rather luck too, on Friday I picked up a little 3000/300 with full
up mem slots. 
I also picked up a scsi expansion box, with a reasonabe RZ in it.
Looking thru the archives, I see a ref to running the box without a
video head, by looping keyboard and mouse pins.  I haven't found those
pins yet tho.  It joins my little Multia and my vaxen collection running
1.4 as soon as ....

Is there a pointer?  A Faq on the beast? 
Thanks!!
bob



Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> 
> kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com writes:
> >       I just got my first ever Alpha system. It's a DEC 3000/600, and
> > it looks like it's pretty well loaded. It has the PMAG-C frame buffer,
> > an RZ26, and four of those 100-pin SIMMs (I have no clue how
> > much actual memory this is).
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >       Soooooo.... what, exactly, have I got, and will the Alpha port of
> > NetBSD run with it?
> 
> You have a "Sandpiper+".  I don't recall whether that has a 21064 or
> 21064A CPU, but it'll have one of them.
> 
> NetBSD/alpha was initially ported to that exact type of machine.
> 
> AFAIK, you'll need to use a serial console on it in order to make it
> go, but other than that it should work great.
> 
> That hardware was a real workhorse.  Certainly, by today's standards
> it's not particularly fast, but back in 1993-1994 it was nice.  Those
> boxes have better memory bandwidth than most of the 21064{,A}-based
> PCI workstations, too.
> 
> cgd
> --
> Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html
> Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.