[Info-vax] Alphaserver service/repair recommendations

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-02-13 kl. 22:06, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> On 2/13/16 2:41 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 2/13/2016 2:36 PM, rcyoung wrote:
>>> Any recommendations on where to obtain service on a 2100 4/233 OpenVMS
>>> system? South Carolina or Georgia would be best, but I'll look at more
>>> distant providers too.
>>
>> I don't have an answer to your question, but you might improve your chances
>> of getting help if you can describe the problem with the system.
>>
>> It's been said (although not in a while) that "terse questions beget
>> terse answers".
>
> My assumption was he wants a service contract rather than help with a
> specific problem, but you're right, it's not clear.
>
> At work we ran a 2100 for 15 years before finally switching to Itanium 7
> years ago. I think by the time we got rid of the 2100 HP was charging
> 13,000 USD per year for hardware support and we had to use that support
> a number of times because various things kept failing.
>
> Given the high risks and high costs of maintaining such an ancient
> system, I would think getting onto an emulator or an Alpha from the
> current century would be considered urgent. The license transfer costs
> would probably be pretty reasonable compared to the support costs for
> twenty-year-old hardware.
>
>

There are also way newer (even if not new) Alpha systems that are
faster/smaller/better in every way. A refurbished DS10/15 with an
external disk box would probabloy work just fine.