I have 4 3000s running 1.5 now, and am about to add a 5th.  2 600s,
4 400s.  Perf is quite acceptable!! If you don't want them, point
me toward em!!
bob

Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Between this message, and the others sent to me directly, the
> overwhelming consensus is to get them (not that I needed much
> coercion).  I just didn't want to find out that there is not much
> difference performance-wise.
> 
> Now to convince the Other Half....
> 
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:04:58PM -0400, Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:
> > > The other day, I spotted what appear to be a couple of alpha 3000/800
> > > machines in the boneyard. I have no idea what is in the machines, other
> > > than a fddi card, a couple of scsi interfaces, and the usual gang of
> > > interfaces (ethernet, ISDN, serial...). I hava no idea if the internals
> > > (ram, cpu...) are all there (or there at all).
> > >
> > > The big question: would it be worth the effort to pull the machines in
> > > out of the rain, and set one (maybe scavenging parts from the other one)
> > > to replace my NoName (axp-pci33) for a file server at home? Similarly, I
> > > don't know what kind of cash the scrappers will want for both the
> > > boxes...
> >
> > FWIW: these machines will run circles around the NoName..
> >
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