[Info-vax] Hobbyist IA64 Media Sydney, Australia

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On 23 Feb, 20:00, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
> In article
> <e0062487-c7c4-4cec-b3b1-5e7813497... at t11g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
> "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinha... at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > The operating system and associated products (DECnet,TCPIP,CLustering,
> > Shadowing, Java, etc) come on one DVD called the OpenVMS for Integrity
> > Operating Environment.  Everything else (compilers, DECset, DECforms,
> > etc) comes on the Layered Product DVD.  Documentation is also
> > available on 2 CDs.  One corresponding to each of the DVDs.
>
> So all the software is on two DVDs?  (I realise that DVDs have quite a
> bit more capacity than CDs and doing the sums it looks like 2 DVDs
> should easily hold the contents of the old CD distributions, but you
> neve know.)  This would make installing and upgrading Itanium easier.
>
> Are there any good hobbyist machines for Itanium?  I define good in this
> context to mean cheap or free, capable of running the latest version of
> VMS and all versions for a few years to come, not too big, not too loud,
> not too power-hungry, at least as fast as an EV6 Alpha.
>
> I'll be travelling to several countries in Europe in the next few
> months.  I'm glad to give any good hobbyist Itanium machines a good
> home.  I think I have all the other hardware I need, but I could use a
> couple of BA353 expansion boxes ("pizza box") and small EV6 or faster
> ALPHAs.  LCD monitors which work with VMS would also be appreciated.

Where are you these days Philip?  I may have a BA353 but it's in
Stockport, UK.

Steve