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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I had so wanted to go to Timonium to find cool toys and surprises, but I
picked my pay check up on Friday and found that someone has once again
misfiled my hours leaving me just enough to pay bills and buy gas.  Sigh.
I need a job that is better about actualy paying me properly.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> 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
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