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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