>I have been offered a surplus Jensen with no HD, Controller, Floppy or ram
>for a Dirt cheap price. (IE less than $500) Am wondering how to make it do
>Redhat without a lot of hassle. We wanna do a compute intensive Web site,
>ie lots of perl code, some database, but the db loves ram and will spare
>the HD if it can. DB is not large at all, only 10 MB or so. The site is
>just fine on a 90Mhz Pentium/ PCI with 16mb, but the compute performance
>for perl would be just grand with an alpha. It would let us put off buying
>a big sun or something. We use Apache 1.0.3 Linux 1.2.13 perl 5.001m right
>now and everthing is great, but this is quite a deal. I can move the
>components over if thats appropriate/possible. I know the jensen is
>EISA/ISA only, so I cant use the IDE & Video card. but... jeez, $500
>doesnt buy a decent bare Pentium motherboard and this is an _alpha_.
>
>Specific concerns:
>
>Memory? How much, which speed. Lets not break the bank on 64 MB here
>either. Is 16 Enough or should I really spring for 24 or 32 MB.
>
>HD Controller: Is a used 1742 Adaptec + Quantum Lightning 730 the right
>kind of thing? Could I get by with a good quality IDE and a fast 1 Gig EIDE
>or something?
>
>Floppy? should I bother with a 2.88?
>
>Serial ports/modem .. for a mouse & 1 dial in? Just get a single serial
>port and an normal ISA Supra or something?
>
>Keyboard? Regular AT is ok, I hope.
>
>CD-ROM? IDEAPI good enough? 2x , just to get the sw on there? I won't
>actually be _using_ it.
>
>Ethernet? EISA like the 3Com one? or get DEC's DE 42... whatever it is for
>EISA. We're only on ISDN right now, prospecting going to T1, we do however
>want to do multiple IP addresses and domain names. We'd also like this to
>do mail and dns for itself. Other machines on the local net will be IP
>only, no messy other protocols.
May want to check out my Alpha Jr 266Mhz. Its on my web site, loaded is
cheaper than what you could built that box at!
Cheers,
Steve
+1-603-421-1800 http://www.dcginc.com
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