> From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:craigberry@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:32 PM
> To: Charles Bailey
> Cc: vmsperl@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Using File::Find to find all versions
>
> At 7:20 PM -0500 2/5/04, Charles Bailey wrote:
>
> >I don't have access to a VMS box any longer (sigh)
>
> 3.) From time to time there are quite a few reasonably priced vaxen
> and alphas on eBay.
>
Charles,
I just picked up an AlphaServer 800 4/500 with 256mb
of ram on Ebay for $120 (no disks, no software). But,
it had all 4 of the drive slides in there, so for
about $175 each, I can buy a 36GB Seagate Cheatah
LC style 10krpm Ultra320 Scsi disk drive (it will
take 4, and the 72gb drives work as well); and memory
(up to 2 GB for sure) is also available at less than
$600/mb, if you really want to go for a king-size
system. I did have to change the console to SRM (I'm
sure it was an NT machine) and install the latest
firmware (downloadable from the hp website).
I also had to find a random Plextor SCSI CDrom and
an old floppy drive (don't know if that will work,
but I shouldn't need it).
Carl Friedberg
carl@xxxxxxxxxx
www.comets.com
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