searching for a wide alpha cpu heatsink

[Marc Schlensog]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:03:35 -0700
Maurice Hilarius <maurice at harddata.com> wrote:

> Nope. It is new and functioning.
> It has been sitting in our inventory, and collecting dust, since 2003,
> with no likely target market for it.
> On paper it is worth $1,500
> 
> Indeed sad, but that is the way it goes..

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. 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?
Too bad I'm located in Germany so that even finding an EV6x based
system for a reasonable price in the US/Canada is not an option because
S&H would be way above what the systems are actually worth (otherwise
I'd have gotten one of those $99 DS20l from eBay).

Alexander: The SlotB modules are not compatible with the DP264 (which
is essentially a DS20/DS20e). But there are (were?) some DP264 modules
floating around on ebay.de, which even are located in Austria. The
problem will be to find a suitable power supply. Memory is an issue too.

I for one have a DS20e sitting around, which I can't get to work
because I am not able to find a power supply block for a decent price
(EUR300 + S&H is not very decent IMO, otherwise I'd be set).

Oh well, I guess I'll finally have to accept the notion that Alpha is
dead for good (and everything that came with it).

b.r.,

Marc