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(The logo on the right is the new HP VMS logo, the one one the left is an advanced version of the old digital shark logo, borrowed from Hoff's OpenVMS Technical Update presentation 2002 in Vienna. Thank's Hoff!!)
As you might have learned from my VMS Forever page, I am (again) managing an OpenVMS Alpha, finally. As budget is tense for scientific work (at least in Austria) nowadays, we decided to buy a used AlphaServer1000a for providing web, mail and file services. The piece is quite a beauty, as you can see on the pics below. It's a 5/300 and came with two power supplies, 3 Storagework shelfs, a DAT drive and 312 MB of RAM. At the moment, there are two 4 GB and one 9 GB disks available, with an additional 4 GB SCSI-2 disk hooked up externally.
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Details on the server:
Hardware:
Alphaserver1000a 5/300
| CPU features No. of processors |
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| Alpha chip/clock speed | 21164-5/300 MHz |
| Cache size on chip | 8 KB I-cache 8 KB D-cache 96 KB secondary |
| Cache size on board | 8 MB ECC |
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| Memory | 312 MB ECC |
| Max. I/O throughput PCI: | 132 MB/sec |
| I/O support | 7 PCI slots, 2 EISA |
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| Configuration | |
| Hard drives | RZ28 (4GB), SEAGATE ST1515 (4.05 GB), RZ1DB (9GB) |
| Tape | Archive 4326XX (DDS-2) |
| Removables | CDROM (RRD45) and floppy |
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| Networking | Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, WAN, X.25, SNA, TCP/IP DECnet/OSI FWD SCSI-2, RAID, DSSI |
| High-availability features | Auto reboot, thermal management, remote system management, RAID, dual SCSI backplane, memory failover ECC memory, ECC cache, error logging |
| Operating system | OpenVMS 7.3-1 |
Software:
OpenVMS 7.3-2, TCPIP 5.4, Compaq
Secure Web Server (CSWS) 1.2, Kerberos 2.0, Perl 5.6.1, DECnet 7.3-2,
DWMotif
1.2-6, Compilers (Fortran 7.5, Macro64 1.2, CC 6.5, C++ 6.5, Pascal 5.8,
BASIC and Bliss), La/TeX97 and quite a number of utilities...
(And yes, WASD, my favorite web server, is running here as well!)
There is an open GUEST
account available at the moment for those who are interested in having a closer
look at the machine... (Please note that the GUEST account has diskquota enabled
[10.000 blocks], is not backed up, and is monitored!) 
More details on programmes and programming for the Alphaserver1000a are available on the server's webpage.
You can reach me at alexander.binder@medunigraz.at or EISNER::BINDER
Back to me!