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Marc Schlensog wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yeah. Sad indeed. I don't want to know how many systems and system
components get scrapped because of companies not finding a buyer, while
there are quite a few people out there who are looking for exactly
those systems/system components for a decent price.
I just checked out your website and I couldn't find any mentioning of
you having Alpha stuff in stock.</pre>
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We stopped building Alpha machines in '03<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:20081112200304.5927889d@redhat.com" type="cite">
<pre wrap=""> I also don't know if it's a viable
option, but how about lowering the prices to a reasonable level ($1500
for a UP2000 module is quite pricey, especially when you take power
consumption, performance and relevance into account), donating them to
Alpha porting projects like Debian, Fedora, OpenBSD, whatever or just
putting them on eBay?
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We have donated 4 Alpha machines in the past to projects.<br>
GNU Fortran<br>
lm_sensors<br>
Math libs ( Goto etc)<br>
PostGreSQL<br>
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<pre wrap="">..
Oh well, I guess I'll finally have to accept the notion that Alpha is
dead for good (and everything that came with it).
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It IS getting a bit dated!<br>
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<pre wrap="">b.r.,
Marc
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