[HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please

[Cory Smelosky]

Used as in had them connected, or used as in brought them online?

The latter? No idea.   The former? AlphaServer ES40 on both VMS and Tru64.

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:31:49 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| 
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
| > https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQUq-Knrc/s800/photo.JPG
| >
| > I have a few of these.
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > |
| > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| > | <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > | > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > | >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector
| > | >> is
| > | >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| > | >> inside.
| > | >
| > | >     If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| > | >
| > | >     The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is
| > | >     ISP1080-based)
| > | >     is a
| > | > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip.   Nearly all of the
| > | > required
| > | > circuitry is on that chip.
| > | >
| > | >     What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > | >     Adaptec
| > | > AHA2940 family.   Different chip, same basic idea, just as
| > | > common,
| > | > but
| > | > incompatible at the register level.
| > | >
| > | >                             -Dave
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| > | > New Kensington, PA
| > |
| > | Hello!
| > | Yes indeed.
| > |
| > | **Abruptly your ankles get grabbed by four cats and two big brown
| > | boxes that are humming the "Enigma Variations".**
| > |
| > | -----
| > | Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > | "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| > |
| >
| > --
| > Cory Smelosky
| > http://gewt.net Personal stuff
| > http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
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| >
| 
| Hello!
| What system last used any of them?
| 
| **Abruptly snow is thrown at your windows.**
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| 

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