Red Hat 7.2 media for Alpha?

Tero Huttunen thuttu77 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 12:19:08 UTC 2022


It seems that I still have old Redhat images on my storage (RH 6,2 and 7,2)
and some Aphacore related stuff I can trey to arrange them online if needed.

Br

Tero

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 11:13, Marc Schlensog <mschlens at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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 <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  or  me at bjsmith.me
>
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