www.dcginc.com often has stuff in this area. They currently have
a 600 MHz DU system for $6800, and at one point they had a pile of
AS200 workstations with DU licences for not much more than a thousand
dollars (!). They don't mention the AS200s on their web page, but
some other dealer might still have one or two around.

cjs

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On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Jon Buller wrote:

> To: port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Cheap systems with DU?
> Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 08:13:31 -0600
> From: Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
> 
> I've got a question that I think is impossible, but I wanted to
> make sure...
> 
> I'm a grad student with very limited funds, and I've been dealing
> with a couple of old Symbolics machines at school.  I'd like to
> run some of the stuff on OpenGenera, but I'll need an Alpha running
> Digital Unix to do it.
> 
> It's possible that I'll be able to port some of the stuff to CMUCL.
> It is a bit longer shot, but I might be able to port Open Genera
> to NetBSD/Alpha.  (Or perhaps it may be possible to run it under
> NetBSD if the emulation is good enough.)
> 
> To do any of this, it would be *very* handy if I had a machine to
> run Open Genera on.  I might be able to get the University to get
> it for me if an academic license is cheap enough, but that is
> questionable.  Anyway, this brings me to the question, Does anyone
> know where I can get a real cheap alpha/Digital UNIX system?
> 
> Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
>