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I was able to get it in without cutting anything, but the expansion daughter board let out magic smoke. It was one of the SMT capacitors. Made quite a flash. It shut down the power supply and nothing happened until I removed the expansion board. I tested the 3X-DEPVZ-AA in the PWS500au and it...

I got one of them on eBay, and it physically does not fit. The card is too long and interferes with the case. There is a huge blank spot on the rear with no circuitry though, and it will fit if I cut it in the blank part. Trouble is that it is a multilayered circuit board and I do not know if...

I ordered the 3X-DEPVZ-AA combination VGA/SCSI/Ethernet card from eBay. Worst case is that if the Alphaserver is dead, I can still use the card by putting it into my Digital Personal Workstation 500au and installing OpenVMS on that. If the root password written on the hard drive in the...

I only have scsi and sata drives around. I will probably go for the combo scsi vga card as opposed to buying old ide drives.

I went to the swap fest this weekend and found this gem for $100. It is very clean inside and out. I had been looking for them online for years, but always been ridiculously expensive. It is an opportunity to play with a machine with OpenVMS. My other Alpha personal workstation refuses to...

I know I mentioned the Sparcbook, but I have some rare vintage hardware. I have a few Brook Trout ISA cards that I have no idea what they are for. Other than being involved with the phone system. They must be pretty rare since I ended up getting like $250 a pop for two of them about 12 years...

Well, performance really isn’t that important. I have this tendency to repair a machine and get the operating system running, and then move on to another project🤷‍♂️ one of these days I am going to sit down and play with the software instead of just tinkering with the hardware.

Currently the scsi hard drive is dead. Other than that, everything else aside from the obvious dead battery works great.

Sparcbook 3gx. Bought it before it even made it to the sellers table at an MIT swap fest.

I am very proud of my Sparcbook 3gx, even though it has hardware issues and doesn’t boot an operating system.

Thanks for the heads up. I believe I have the 2.5.1 media around from my Sparcbook. That worked well with 64mb. But I may also get some more memory for it when I start to delve into this project.

Sparcstation 10 SunBlade 2500 silver Dell poweredge 1400sc (my first new computer back in 2001) HP Omnibook 425 HP Omnibook 800ct Tadpole Sparcbook 3gx IBM 5150 with IBM 5151 monochrome display HP 200lx (have 3, one of which works) Compaq 75mhz 486dx laptop Alpha Personal workstation 500au My...

When I moved stuff out of my parents attic, I pulled out my Sparcstation 10. As expected, the NVRAM is dead, but a new chip has been ordered. I also just got a great deal on a pair of 125mhz Ross Hypersparc processors. Way faster than the regular 40mhz processors that it had. This was my first...

I recently got my Alphastation PWS 500au from my parents attic. I bought it in 2006 for $100 at the MIT swap fest. It has a 500mhz Alpha 21164 processor with like 512 megs of ram. I plan on testing it this weekend and want to try to install OpenVMS on it. I got it from the OpenVMS hobbyist...

I have been passively into vintage computers for decades (primarily Sun SPARC) and handheld systems. At VCF East this weekend I finally got the IBM 5150/5151 combination at consignment so now I am delving into 8 bit. It needs to be recapped as it let out the magic smoke today. Time to hone my...