Red Hat 7.2 media for Alpha?

[Marc Schlensog]

Oh man, I threw a fully equipped DS20e (Dual-667MHz, 4GB RAM, 6x 300GB, 
SA5304, GbE, three PSUs) in the bin a year ago since nobody wanted to 
take it and I needed the space and didn't see myself using it.


b.r.,


Marc

On 19.02.22 03:55, Marco Benton wrote:
> Most of the Alphas I have are the not-so-common boards I acquired from 
> working at a DEC engineering site eons ago.
>
> From what I remember, i think I still have a few Multia's, 164SX 
> boards (no case), 164RX (Windows NT only), a Jensen, a AlphaStation 
> 400, a DEC3000 i think... the rest are StorageWorks and Ultrix boxes.
>
> So nothing I have is really worth anything or salvageable since 
> they've been in the shed outside for decades now.  yes, i know, shame.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Bryan Smith [mailto:me at bjsmith.me]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 18, 2022, 12:59 PM EST
> *To:* Linux on Alpha processors
> *Subject:* Red Hat 7.2 media for Alpha?
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 9:59 PM Bryan Smith <me at bjsmith.me> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 9:53 PM Marco Benton <marco at xssnet.com> wrote:
>
>         I operated one of the official HP mirror sites. For some
>         reason I never deleted it, since I still have a boatload of
>         Alphas sitting in the shed. :-)
>         ftp://ftp2.xssnet.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/7.2/iso
>
>
> Not to reply to my own e-mail and go off-tangent, but ...
>
> Since you have a shed full of Alphas, have you ever 
> considered donating or 'loaning' (to be stewarded by others) your 
> systems to an active, user accessible, vintage museum/user group like 
> VCF ( https://vcfed.org/ )?
>
> - bjs
>
> P.S.  Maddog said he does indeed have the 4-disc, RHL7.2 for Alpha 
> set, although it's probably moot given the archive mirror post.  I 
> really need to pen out an article after talking to those with VCF and 
> a few other museums on how they approach this. This comes up too 
> regularly in embedded and other computer lists for me to ignore, 
> especially non-Wintel platforms.
> -- 
> Bryan J Smith  - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
> E-mail:  b.j.smith at ieee.org <http://ieee.org>  or  me at bjsmith.me 
> <http://bjsmith.me>
>
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