[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[Christopher]

On Mar 20, 5:30 am, urbancamo <m... at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 3:35 am, Malcolm Dunnett <noth... at spammers.are.scum> wrote:
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> > Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
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> > > The best deal out there now is a lot of 3 with a starting price of
> > > $525 !
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> >    Yep, just bought a 3-pack from them. Excellent price, I think the
> > 30GB of memory (10GB each) they come with is worth more than the $525.
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> >    They came very well packed (nice solid box, lots of foam (the
> > spray-in kind, not the annoying "popcorn").
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> >    They are all in great shape. My only minor complaint would be that
> > the MP firmware on them is really out of date (2.20 IIRC). Not a big
> > problem, it only took a few minutes each to update to the latest version.
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> >     At the risk of being sacrilegious I have to admit that the first
> > thing I did was install RedHat Linux on one of them.
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> Debian 5.0 is nicely up-to-date and works a treat.

And it has a lustre package, which is based on the VMS cluster
technology.  I want to mess around with that a bit.