[rescue] alphaserver 4100

[Eric Dittman]

> > Yes. I call this "component magnetism". If you have a part of a system
> > or a system that is missing some important parts, just be patient.
> 
>    Yes. :-)
> 
> > All you need to get a complete working system will come to you
> > with time. (Remembering my first QBus VAX. A MV II without disk...
> > that has now several GB of disk space as well as a MV III CPU.
> > Or my PDP 11. Started as a /23 with broken CPU and SLU, now a /73
> > with 4 MB RAM, EDSI disk, ...)
> 
>    Water it twice a day, and look what happens. ;)
> 
> > Hmmm. A AS4100 with 4 x 440 MHz EV5 CPUs. A dream machine.
> 
>    I'm very happy; I can't wait until it arrives.  Gonna hook up my big 
> FC-AL array to it and I'll be a file-servin' bitch.  Then I'll have an 
> AS800 for sale.
> 
> > Only toped by a DEC 8000.
> 
>    Hmm, never used one.  Tasty?

I'm guessing he means the AS8200/8400.  I'd consider the ES40/ES45
and Wildfires to top the others.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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