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Written by nobody on 2024-12-26 at 02:04

when I moved from my first home around 2001, I had to donate lot of my old gear. most of it I don''t miss. but there are two pieces I really wish I had made space for... one was only Alpha desktop that DEC made. I almost had redhat running on it. and second one is HP Appollo/Domain graphics workstation that I was still working on getting DomainOS tapes for.

[#]retrocomputing

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Written by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal on 2024-12-26 at 02:28

@Rajiv

I had a couple of DEC Multia, Alpha model. Ran RH great! Kinda miss them, and the Alpha architecture in general. Now eagerly awaiting high-end RISC-V chips. I won't be sad when x86 eventually dries up and blows away. Can't happen soon enough.

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Written by nobody on 2024-12-26 at 02:30

@brouhaha sigh.... and I thought you were asking about Apollo... I don't remember the official model name for Alpha. It's code name was Jensen. so in linux circles, it was always known as Alpha Jensen.

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Written by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal on 2024-12-26 at 02:33

@Rajiv

I think it was AXP133, though Wikipedia says AXP150. I didn't have one. But Multia was also a desktop machine. Used the 21066 at up to 233 MHz.

Folks I knew used Apollo 68K machines in mid '80s, but I never had the pleasure.

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Written by nobody on 2024-12-26 at 02:34

@brouhaha that sounds about right! AXP133 is what I had!

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Written by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal on 2024-12-26 at 02:36

@Rajiv Wikipedia says AXP150, so I edited my post, but I don't think that sounds right, or maybe there were both.

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Written by nobody on 2024-12-26 at 02:41

@brouhaha I see references to AXP150 as well as AXPpci33. so likely I conflated the two to come up with AXP133. age does strange things to memory :)

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