From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 11 15:44:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3818915F5E for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA29152 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id WAA06005 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:59:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199904112059.WAA06005@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:59:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I assume that Thor has no problems with me forwarding this to the FreeBSD/alpha list as well. Bulk prices tend to drop with volume.. ;-) Wilko ----- Forwarded message from Thor Lancelot Simon ----- I've found a source of very cheap AlphaPC164 motherboards, with 500MHz CPU. They have no memory, and no case or power supply (they take ECC FPM DRAM, *not* SDRAM, and have 8 SIMM slots of which either 4 or 8 must be filled with the same size parts) -- they should fit in standard ATX cases, but require a special power supply ($70-$90, details available) which has a normal "hard" power switch instead of the ATX "soft" switch. There is absolutely *no* warranty or guarantee, and the boards are as-is -- though (if you trust me) I can tell you that they come from what I'd call a very reliable source. They'll cost around $150-$200/ea, plus shipping. I'm very unlikely to make any money from this; I'm mentioning it here because NetBSD/alpha runs great on these boards and, aside from the new 21264-based systems, they're actually some of the fastest systems NetBSD runs on, period. I'd like to see more people running NetBSD/alpha and I see this as a good opportunity to help the interested do so for cheap. I'm going to do a bulk purchase of these boards in the near future -- let me know in the next few days if you're intersted. Thor -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?" ----- End of forwarded message from Thor Lancelot Simon ----- Groeten / Cheers, Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl _______________________ Powered by FreeBSD ___ http://www.freebsd.org _____ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message