Where the heck can you get an Alpha?

[Gunnar]

Im looking to snag an ultrafast alpha box(>800Mhz), preferably one that houses a 21264, but where the heck can you get one of these things?

I would buy either new or used, and there should be a lot of them, since most of the people in the world are fools and use x86 for everything now.

 

[RSMemphis]

Digital was bought up by - hmm, Compaq I think - so there won't be a new Alpha for a while.

As for used, call some universities around you - sometimes they sell surplus stuff, and maybe you get lucky.
There are also places that sell old workstations online, but I don't have a link.
But start with this google search.

Actually, start with this one, the other one brings up a lot of unwanted stuff.

 

[Czar]

not getting mine

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: Czar
not getting mine

Whoa :Q! What's the specs of your Alpha?

 

[Sunner]

Try out EBay, lots of RISC boxes going for low prices there, including Alpha's.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: Czar
not getting mine

Whoa :Q! What's the specs of your Alpha?

well... only 190-200mhz (not exactly sure), 192mb ram, 8 scsi disks (1gb and 2gb disks), runs on windows nt4 and has a built in unix in the bios, rather strange. And its loud, very very loud so its been sitting beside my bed for over a year. Best of all is that I got it for free

 

[ed21x]

why don't you just get a mac? uh wait... are they still on the motorola deritives of the 68k processors?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: ed21x
why don't you just get a mac? uh wait... are they still on the motorola deritives of the 68k processors?

Nope they use Motorola made PowerPC CPU's.