[rescue] looking for a Multia

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Aug 12 10:04:57 CDT 2003


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 03:05 AM, Paul Weissmann wrote:
>>>>  Hey folks.  I'm looking for a DEC Multia, either the 166 or 233MHz
>>>> version.  Anybody have one they don't need?
>>>
>>> Isn't that one of the alphas that you like to benchmark against
>>> urinating
>>> archives?
>>
>>   The very one.  But to act as a firewall and DHCP server for a
>> two-machine network on the end of a slow DSL pipe, it's perfect.
>
> I thought it's kinda risky to run Multias 24/7 since they tend to
> burn out (physically) on occasions.

   Quite correct.  This problem, however, can be solved. :)

        -Dave

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