[SunRescue] Nice little rescue at the swap today (alphastation -- OS suggestions?)

[Chad Fernandez]

Cool find, I am not familiar with it but it sure sounds nice.  I wish I
could find good stuff like that!  Oh well, my MicroVax 3400 is an
interesting machine, and only cost me $30 :-)

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Robert Novak wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I rescued a "mystery" machine at a swap meet Sunday morning. THe guy
> selling it wasn't sure what it was or if it worked, but I recognized and
> understood the "Alphastation 250 4/266" on the front panel and the four
> big simms inside.
> 
> Turns out it is actually a 266MHz Alphastation 250 with 256MB of memory,
> 2GB of disk, 8bit video card, cdrom, and Windows NT 4.0 workstation. Turns
> out it works too. Oh, and it's a heck of a lot lighter than the
> Alphaserver 600. :-)  Not a bad $50 gamble!
> 
> Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on an OS to run on this. It has
> Windows NT but I don't have passwords for it. I would've had OpenBSD 2.8
> on it already if Alpha were on the CD. Since I'll have to download
> whatever I use anyway, I'm leaning toward FreeBSD or Debian Linux (maybe
> dual-boot with non-commercial Tru64).
> 
> Any suggestions or caveats?
> 
> --ROb