[HECnet] Alpha emulation

[Sampsa Laine]

I told the guy that as we are both a) not exactly flush with cash and b) quite attached to actual hardware, they're unlikely to get much cash out of us.

However, from the get go he seems to approach this from a charity / marketing opportunity (I for one would stick a banner + link on the CHIMPY page as a part of the deal quite happily). Also, look at it this way: If he can sell it more or less at cost (i.e. USB dongle + shipping), he doesn't LOSE anything - we were never going to pay 6 kilodollars for an emu when hardware costs 200.

Sampsa




On 5 Apr 2012, at 10:16, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:

The vendor might feel somewhat offended by our response because    50 is a *lot* lower than the published marketing price. However we're hobbyist users who run   VMS for various reasons. A hobby is run on a different (usually non rational) set of decisions than a business is. 
The other thing is that the Alpha business by nature is about to end for commercial users. So the vendor may find the help of ambassadors useful. 
Hans