[Info-vax] Tired of virus and worm issues!! Want to replace my PC with OVMS Workstation. (Needs)

[Rich Jordan]

On Apr 2, 11:12 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich Jordan wrote:
> > I'm cruising for a _cheap_ faster multi-slot Alpha (DS10 600, DS15,
> > DS25... no way I can run an itanic, as noisy as they are, in the space
> > I have) and will keep a VMS box on the desk as the home baseline
> > system (mail store, etc; I only use webmail from the Mac).  I've got
> > the SCSI cards, disks, and a nice video card ready when I find one.
>
>    Among Alpha systems, an XP1000 can be a lot cheaper than
> any of those newer/nicer systems.  "multi-slot" =
> "multi-PCI-slot"?  (Not a DS10L?)
>
>    Among IA64 systems, the zx2000 is pretty reasonable,
> noise-wise.  No special disk drive trays needed, no special
> laptop DVD drive needed.  Only one CPU, but up to 8GB or
> memory.  Runs HP-UX, too.  Too old for VMS support, but it
> still works.
>

I need two slots.  I need a graphics card _and_ decent SCSI support;
my DS10Ls both have KZPEAs and run as servers.  A trifecta card costs
as much as a server and has relatively crappy graphics.

At this point I'd prefer a DS15 (!) or DS10/600 over an XP1000 simply
due to age of the firmware and the greater likelihood of being dumped
from VMS support in new versions (however many more of those there may
be) but we'll see what comes along.  I have my eye on a customer box
that may go away soon; they've already migrated apps off of it but
still use it for web/email/internal CMS; it is one that's at threat
for replacement due to the decrepit PHP version HP supplies not
supporting current versions of the CMS and their desire to move to
current...