I also made a screen recording of my IP-KVM showing this booting on the AlphaServer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3c...
Windows XP build 2210 64-bit booting on a Digital AlphaServer 800 5/500
YouTube video by David Goodwin
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January 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I also made a screen recording of my IP-KVM showing this booting on the AlphaServer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3c...
Haha, look at Mister AlphaServer Smarty Pants here! 😁
Have you talked to a representative about your keyboard's extended warrenty? 😂
No, seriously though, those machines were super cool, I've had my hands on a couple of them, you have a pretty cool piece of tech history!
Have you talked to a representative about your keyboard's extended warrenty? 😂
No, seriously though, those machines were super cool, I've had my hands on a couple of them, you have a pretty cool piece of tech history!
February 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Haha, look at Mister AlphaServer Smarty Pants here! 😁
Have you talked to a representative about your keyboard's extended warrenty? 😂
No, seriously though, those machines were super cool, I've had my hands on a couple of them, you have a pretty cool piece of tech history!
Have you talked to a representative about your keyboard's extended warrenty? 😂
No, seriously though, those machines were super cool, I've had my hands on a couple of them, you have a pretty cool piece of tech history!
Today the Windows AlphaServer 800 is doing a bit of compiling...
January 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Today the Windows AlphaServer 800 is doing a bit of compiling...
big same but with the PS/2s they had. although I *did* rescue a DEC AlphaServer/266 from the trash heap when I figured I could save it and it turned out to just have a bad NIC.
December 22, 2023 at 1:45 AM
big same but with the PS/2s they had. although I *did* rescue a DEC AlphaServer/266 from the trash heap when I figured I could save it and it turned out to just have a bad NIC.
I put on a playlist of old wheel of fortunes while I work on this AlphaServer as background noise and I forgot all about the shopping segments lmao
you see we need the female demographic, so when a round ends the show should drag to a halt while the winner buys porcelain dogs on a turntable
you see we need the female demographic, so when a round ends the show should drag to a halt while the winner buys porcelain dogs on a turntable
November 25, 2023 at 9:40 PM
I put on a playlist of old wheel of fortunes while I work on this AlphaServer as background noise and I forgot all about the shopping segments lmao
you see we need the female demographic, so when a round ends the show should drag to a halt while the winner buys porcelain dogs on a turntable
you see we need the female demographic, so when a round ends the show should drag to a halt while the winner buys porcelain dogs on a turntable
Odd browser client strings from the past: "Mozilla/3.03Gold (X11; I; OpenVMS V7.2 AlphaServer 2000 4/233)"
August 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Odd browser client strings from the past: "Mozilla/3.03Gold (X11; I; OpenVMS V7.2 AlphaServer 2000 4/233)"
I'd rather not take the heatsink off my AlphaServer! I heard you can break the CPU if you torque it too hard!
August 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I'd rather not take the heatsink off my AlphaServer! I heard you can break the CPU if you torque it too hard!
her Compaq Portable and also working on an AlphaServer exhibit, combining theirs in with ours to use the Pro/350 as a serial terminal for OpenVMS! Here are a few of my favorites from today
September 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
her Compaq Portable and also working on an AlphaServer exhibit, combining theirs in with ours to use the Pro/350 as a serial terminal for OpenVMS! Here are a few of my favorites from today
A colleague told me that in the mid 1990s the same thing happened but it was NCR staff purchasing Digital alpha servers people didn't need because they were manufactured in Kanata and somebody had an "in" with them, probably getting kickbacks. The alphaserver wasn't used much, collected dust.
May 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A colleague told me that in the mid 1990s the same thing happened but it was NCR staff purchasing Digital alpha servers people didn't need because they were manufactured in Kanata and somebody had an "in" with them, probably getting kickbacks. The alphaserver wasn't used much, collected dust.
I snagged a DS20 AlphaServer from a broker for $100 (they had no idea what it was) back in the day, and ran my web site on it for almost a decade before it caught fire. I loved those machines.
March 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I snagged a DS20 AlphaServer from a broker for $100 (they had no idea what it was) back in the day, and ran my web site on it for almost a decade before it caught fire. I loved those machines.
Most valuable must be my CMD SuperCPU128. Bought it new around y2k. Seen two go for around $4000 this year. Most sentimental is my childhoods C64C. I haven't really bought any super expensive retro gear (unless you count the MEGA65). Around $400 for CMD HD and about the same for a Alphaserver DS15.
November 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Most valuable must be my CMD SuperCPU128. Bought it new around y2k. Seen two go for around $4000 this year. Most sentimental is my childhoods C64C. I haven't really bought any super expensive retro gear (unless you count the MEGA65). Around $400 for CMD HD and about the same for a Alphaserver DS15.
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October 23, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Some more pictures from VCF this year, courtesy of my neighbor Ester! The one with the Pro is connecting to the big beige AlphaServer in the second picture, and the third is her blue AlphaServer
I'm going to start working on some stuff for @r-12.net tomorrow maybe with a floppy drive repair :)
I'm going to start working on some stuff for @r-12.net tomorrow maybe with a floppy drive repair :)
September 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Some more pictures from VCF this year, courtesy of my neighbor Ester! The one with the Pro is connecting to the big beige AlphaServer in the second picture, and the third is her blue AlphaServer
I'm going to start working on some stuff for @r-12.net tomorrow maybe with a floppy drive repair :)
I'm going to start working on some stuff for @r-12.net tomorrow maybe with a floppy drive repair :)
Playing Age of Empires under x86 emulation on an AlphaServer 800 via an IP-KVM isn't the *best* experience, but it could be much worse. It has trouble scrolling the screen (1024x768 probably doesn't help), but otherwise it runs pretty smoothly. Perhaps letting FX!32 optimise more may help.
December 22, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Playing Age of Empires under x86 emulation on an AlphaServer 800 via an IP-KVM isn't the *best* experience, but it could be much worse. It has trouble scrolling the screen (1024x768 probably doesn't help), but otherwise it runs pretty smoothly. Perhaps letting FX!32 optimise more may help.
Oooooh, an AlphaServer! Is it an AlphaServer 1000 / 1000A? I can help you make it go!
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Oooooh, an AlphaServer! Is it an AlphaServer 1000 / 1000A? I can help you make it go!
About time I posted something, so last night I installed real 64bit Windows 2000ish on one of my DEC AlphaServer 800s, a model of computer introduced in 1997 with prices starting at around US$30k in 2023 money. The CPU is a 500MHz 64bit DEC Alpha EV56 which was introduced in 1996.
December 21, 2024 at 8:42 AM
About time I posted something, so last night I installed real 64bit Windows 2000ish on one of my DEC AlphaServer 800s, a model of computer introduced in 1997 with prices starting at around US$30k in 2023 money. The CPU is a 500MHz 64bit DEC Alpha EV56 which was introduced in 1996.
honorable mentions include the kaypro "portable" my grandpa had which taught me how to get around CP/M in the mid-80s
moxie, my first hand-built linux box, slackware floppy install (oif)
my beloved AlphaServer 400 which I picked piecemeal out of the Indefinite Loan room at DEC when I worked there
moxie, my first hand-built linux box, slackware floppy install (oif)
my beloved AlphaServer 400 which I picked piecemeal out of the Indefinite Loan room at DEC when I worked there
February 21, 2024 at 12:33 AM
honorable mentions include the kaypro "portable" my grandpa had which taught me how to get around CP/M in the mid-80s
moxie, my first hand-built linux box, slackware floppy install (oif)
my beloved AlphaServer 400 which I picked piecemeal out of the Indefinite Loan room at DEC when I worked there
moxie, my first hand-built linux box, slackware floppy install (oif)
my beloved AlphaServer 400 which I picked piecemeal out of the Indefinite Loan room at DEC when I worked there
Procházím staré dokumenty a našel jsem konfiguraci serveru pro centrální databázi katastru v roce 2001 - Digital AlphaServer GS160, 6 CPU 1 GHz, 6 GB RAM. Krabice vysoká přes 1,5 m a široká skoro metr. Byl k tomu dodávaný křížový šroubovák, dlouhý půl metru.
April 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Procházím staré dokumenty a našel jsem konfiguraci serveru pro centrální databázi katastru v roce 2001 - Digital AlphaServer GS160, 6 CPU 1 GHz, 6 GB RAM. Krabice vysoká přes 1,5 m a široká skoro metr. Byl k tomu dodávaný křížový šroubovák, dlouhý půl metru.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2025/10/28/msg001385.html
This makes me really sad. I know a spot not very far away where at least 8x AlphaServers are. "Decommissioned in place" is the term used: they unplugged the power cables, turn off the lights, and decades later they're still […]
This makes me really sad. I know a spot not very far away where at least 8x AlphaServers are. "Decommissioned in place" is the term used: they unplugged the power cables, turn off the lights, and decades later they're still […]
Original post on chirp.zadzmo.org
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October 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2025/10/28/msg001385.html
This makes me really sad. I know a spot not very far away where at least 8x AlphaServers are. "Decommissioned in place" is the term used: they unplugged the power cables, turn off the lights, and decades later they're still […]
This makes me really sad. I know a spot not very far away where at least 8x AlphaServers are. "Decommissioned in place" is the term used: they unplugged the power cables, turn off the lights, and decades later they're still […]
The AlphaServer and RS/6000 eventually finished their task! The AlphaServer produced the Kermit 95 3.0 beta 7 DEC Alpha binaries for NT 3.50, NT 3.51/4.0/2000, and 64bit Windows 2000ish, while the RS/6000 did the PowerPC build for NT 4.0.
January 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The AlphaServer and RS/6000 eventually finished their task! The AlphaServer produced the Kermit 95 3.0 beta 7 DEC Alpha binaries for NT 3.50, NT 3.51/4.0/2000, and 64bit Windows 2000ish, while the RS/6000 did the PowerPC build for NT 4.0.
Ooooh, which AlphaServer?
November 25, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Ooooh, which AlphaServer?
Oh shit, I won a reasonably priced eBay auction I fully expected to get outbid on.
Two old Compaq AlphaServer DS10Ls!
My OpenVMS family keeps on growing.
Two old Compaq AlphaServer DS10Ls!
My OpenVMS family keeps on growing.
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oh shit, I won a reasonably priced eBay auction I fully expected to get outbid on.
Two old Compaq AlphaServer DS10Ls!
My OpenVMS family keeps on growing.
Two old Compaq AlphaServer DS10Ls!
My OpenVMS family keeps on growing.