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I had a stack of surplus purchase alphas i used for all sorts of things. All but one of them we put SRM bios on when we got them; but that one was for some reas

I had a stack of surplus purchase alphas i used for all sorts of things. All but one of them we put SRM bios on when we got them; but that one was for some reason unable to take it and so was stuck with ARC and (as i recall) wouldn't boot linux. So I gave that one to my teenage nephew, who ran NT on it and became quite the Windows geek with a successful sysadmin career. "I ran NT on Alpha as a teen" is a pretty good resume enhancer, I guess.

garciasn 3y ago
I had one of the UDBs back in the late 90s and used it as a MP3 server/foot heater running RH 5.2 (I believe; it's been 25+ years). My wife made me recycle it when we were cleaning out our house before our first child. I should have kept it as a combo doorstop and space heater.