New AC2 release candidate test boot cd image

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Fri Oct 21 06:51:02 UTC 2005


On 10/21/2005 12:53 AM, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:55:37PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
>> Great to hear, that HP people are still involved!
> 
> Not as much as I'd like, but I try...

'Guess everyone on this list is trying to get more Alphas. :-)

>> Seems you have a lot of Alpha-Spare-Machines standing around...
> 
> Well, what I have has been collected (mostly unoffically) over MANY
> years. It was really only with the EV6-based machines (DS20) that the
> Linux-on-Alpha effort actually started getting machines BEFORE they'd
> started shipping to customers... :-\
> 
> Favorite old boxes I still have around (though may not use):
> 
> 	JENSEN		we always remember our first... ;-}
> 	AlphaBook1	an Alpha laptop running RH 4.2 on LCA45 at 233MHz
> 	CABRIO		EV45 ran at 275MHz with 2MB cache in SIMMS
> 	EB164		my first EV5 (266MHz)
> 	LX164		my first (and last, thankfully) PYXIS-based machine

Still nice machines to play around with. :-)

>> Shall I post you my address? :-P
> 
> You'd have to post more than that; say, shipping costs and customs duties
> and... ;-}

If course I would have to. :-\

Best,
  Oliver




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