Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 25 2025 08:00 am

On 23 Sep 2025 at 07:30a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  te> No love for DEC?  Their later Alpha boxes looked pretty slick.
 pF> 
 pF> A friend of mine couldn't bear to see a DEC Alpha being tossed out at
 pF> work, so he brought it home. It ran NT 3.51 and IIS for way longer than
 pF> it should have - but it would not die.

Yeah.  I've still got an Alpha down in the basement that runs VMS.
I don't need this machine, but it's fun.

A fan died on it a year or so ago; the machine shut down instantly
with a thermal warning.  Ok, so I got a new fan; low power, but enough
air movement to keep things cool.  I installed it and the machine shut
down _again_.  Oops; looks like they were measuring current drawn by
the fan as a proxy for how well it was working: the system believed
my much more efficient fan was broken (it was not).

So I had to get a less efficient fan.  :-D

The SCSI disks in it are starting to die, though.

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