Vintage Computer calendar
Retro computer enthusiast [derelictelectronics] acquired a DEC AlphaServer 2100 at this year’s Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and recorded an introduction to the machine. The 1994 server has a 64-bit Alpha RISC processor on a single processor card. While the machine supports up to 2GB of RAM, this example comes with 256 MB; no small capacity for 1994.
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OpenVMS details
minute of the video, the machine is powered on, but the operating system fails to boot due to what appear to be power-related issues. The goal is to get the machine up and running with OpenVMS, as promised. This VAX-derived operating system lives on today in the cloud and on virtual machines.