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I purchased this machine from someone in Hamilton. It came with a hard copy of the manual plus a copy on CD (AG-R5DUA-BE). It had the following installed:

• DE500-AA Ethernet Controller
• DEFPA-AB DEC PCI FDDI Controller
• Mylex DAC960 RAID controller
• Compaq (Seagate) Wide Ultra-2 18.2GB 7200RPM disk in tray
• Digital RZ1DF-CB (IBM Type DGHS) disk in tray
• 2* Digital RZ1CB-CS (Seagate Barracuda ST34371WC) disk in tray

In April 2012 the 18.2GB compaq drive and two RZ1CB-CS were replaced. The 18GB drive appeared non-functional so was replaced with a slightly faster (10k rpm) wide ultra 3 unit (3R-A0858-AA). The two RZ1CB-CS drives came out as they were small and noisy. They were replaced with a Compaq 388140-001 wide ultra SCSI 18GB (manufacturer unknown) and Compaq fijitsu 7200RPM wide ultra 2 disk (3R-A0921-AA), also 18GB. The machine now has three 18GB disks and a single 9GB (IBM) disk.

An NCR 53C810 was also moved from mercury to drive a TZ885 DLT minilibrary to backup all the machines extra disk space.

This was my second working Alpha system. It is much quieter than the AlphaServer 1200 and in very good condition. With the two RZ1CB-CS drives removed it is almost silent.

Below is the configuration of the machine. The only difference between this and when I got it is it had two RZ1CB-CS drives installed and the Mylex DAC960 RAID controller was in an antistatic bag.

>>>show config
                        Digital Equipment Corporation
                            AlphaServer 800 5/500

Firmware
SRM Console:	V5.8-16
ARC Console:	v5.70
PALcode:	OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-3, Digital UNIX PALcode V1.23-5
Serial Rom:	V1.2

Processor
DECchip (tm) 21164A-2	500MHz

System
Motherboard Revision: 54-24803-02 Rev A

Memory
     512 Meg of System Memory
     Bank 0 = 512 Mbytes(128 MB Per DIMM) Starting at 0x00000000
     Bank 1 = No Memory Detected 


 Slot	Option			Hose 0, Bus 0, PCI
   5	QLogic ISP10x0      	pka0.7.0.5.0        	SCSI Bus ID 7
				dka0.0.0.5.0        	COMPAQ BB01813467
				dka100.1.0.5.0      	RZ1DF-CB
				dka400.4.0.5.0      	RRD46
   6	S3 Trio64/Trio32    	vga0.0.0.6.0        	
   7	Intel 82375         	                    	Bridge to Bus 1, EISA
  11	DE500-AA Network Con	ewa0.0.0.11.0       	00-00-F8-07-BE-BC
  12	Mylex DAC960        	dra.0.0.12.0        	
  13	DEC PCI FDDI        	fwa0.0.0.13.0       	00-60-6D-93-52-A8

 Slot	Option			Hose 0, Bus 1, EISA

              

Current Status

In November 2023 the machine was pulled out of storage and had Tru64 5.1B-6 installed. The Mylex DAC960 seems to be non-functional now (doesn't show up in SRM), and some hard disks were misbehaving and replaced with units from the other AlphaServer 800. Its TOY clock has also been replaced with a brand new DS12887+. It ran for 64 hours straight building GCC without any hardware failures and is now working nicely.

Images

At its former home (didn't come with keyboard or monitor):

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