From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 26 17:35:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3ED514C24 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA16871; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:35:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA47110; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:35:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:35:19 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Miata support In-Reply-To: <199911270004.BAA50907@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <14399.3430.157707.36604@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199911270004.BAA50907@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14399.13210.950566.851116@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > > > However -- We pressured Digital into giving us motherboard upgrades > > for our old buggy machines (we had a performance clause in our > > purchase order). We actually received a rather polished "upgrade kit" > > complete with documentation on how to do the board swap, so I have a > > feeling that a fairly substantial number of machines were upgraded. > > If this is the case, a machine may have a "bad" part number, but may > > really have newer guts. > > BTW: what would be the going price for a 64Mb PWS433 incl 4.5G USCSI? > Guestimate is just fine. I'm not sure. I've seen them going for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 - $1500 (USD). If the machine has a UNIX (or VMS, I suppose..) license, then expect to pay more. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message