[H-GEN] Alfa motherboards

[Frank Brand]

The fuzzy one wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> ;1-9 pcs. $129/ea
> ;
> ;10+ pcs. $99/ea


Certainly sounds a reasonable price. I believe that this was the first
Alpha board to support MILO


>         This sounds like it could be an excellent deal, especailly if a
> few humbuggers got together and made a bulk purchase (a couple would prob
> still have to be resold to third parties).  I wouldn't mind getting my
> hands on such a machine.  Remind me tho, the 166Mhz cpu would give what
> sort of intel-like performance?  Something like a high-end 486?  Maybe
> I could upgrade my current 486/50.

Yes but foraround $200 by the time it reaches Australia. Maybe $250.

Unless you were desparately trying to run Alpha Linux maybe a VX
motherboard and 512K cache with a Cyrix 200 chip (all for $250 fitted in
Australia with local guarantees etc) might be a faster and better
option.


>         Can someone tell me what sort of components won't be comapatable
> with my current setup?  I guess I'd have to reformat my hard-drive etc,
> but I'd be expecting my current keyboard, floppy, ide hd (with
> controller), video, internal modem etc to work.  Would I be correct in
> these assumptions?  I don't want to upgrade in too big a hit.  Oh, I think
> pretty much all the cards I currently have are ISA, I may have a VESA or
> two which I'll naturally have to replace.


There is a documentation entry at digital's web site - the boards come
with either a PS2 style keyboard plug or a standard plug so your KB
would be OK. Not sure if they support EIDE but presumably there is a
switch that can switch you to a controller card rather than the on board
controller and it would support EIDE I suspect. Your ISA cards should
work...VESA definately wont I suspect.

-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzfbrand
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