[Info-vax] Alphaserver DS10s for sale

[gah4]

On Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 11:27:38 AM UTC-8, chris wrote:

(snip, I wrote)

> > My best compuarchaeology buy is a Sun T5220 for $38.13 including shipping. 
> > I do suspect that they might have lost money on that one. It was from a 
> > big computer recycling company, so they only have to make money 
> > on average. Shipping distance wasn't so far, though. 

(snip)

> I buy too many as well, but allows me to keep up to date on the lab 
> systems at very low cost. Have run a Sun M3000 for 4 or 5 years now. 
> Around 60.00 ukp on Ebay and arrived in a bricked condition, but found 
> an obscure page that showed how to load a failsafe admin image and it 
> all sprang into life. Similar situation with a T4-1 recently, but 
> sold that on after fixing it to defaults. Both fixes took no more 
> than a couple of hours, so well worth the effort. 

I think the M3000 is a little newer than the T5220, though I
am not sure how they compare.   It came without disks, but
there are people selling the disks with trays for a low price.
(Well, they are 146GB disks.)

But it is supposed to be that SAS is compatible with SATA drives,
so I might try a modern SATA SSD in that one.    But running
NFS over gigabit Ethernet works pretty well.  

I also have a Sun 3/E, bought for hobby pricing, which is a 6U
VME board, additional VME board for SCSI/Ethernet, and a
VME chassis to hold and power it.  

Years ago, I was working on diskless Sun3 and Sun4 system, so
it wasn't hard to get it running.  That is the last of the Sun3 models,
meant for embedded use.  A little more dense than previous models.