On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:04:58PM -0400, Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:
> The other day, I spotted what appear to be a couple of alpha 3000/800
> machines in the boneyard. I have no idea what is in the machines, other
> than a fddi card, a couple of scsi interfaces, and the usual gang of
> interfaces (ethernet, ISDN, serial...). I hava no idea if the internals
> (ram, cpu...) are all there (or there at all). 
> 
> The big question: would it be worth the effort to pull the machines in
> out of the rain, and set one (maybe scavenging parts from the other one)
> to replace my NoName (axp-pci33) for a file server at home? Similarly, I
> don't know what kind of cash the scrappers will want for both the
> boxes... 

FWIW: these machines will run circles around the NoName..

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