DEC AXP 3000-300 specific notes

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AXP3KB History

Not much to say yet about this box. It served as a desktop workstation in a research group, back in the mid-1990's, when Alpha was hip, and was retired around 2000. It was still in good working condition when I picked it up about ten years later. Digital Unix 3.2D was installed, but of course the boot process stuck because it lacked its usual network environment. I managed to rescue and reconfigure the system for my own use. Because it has two disk bays, I took the chance and loaded a second disk with OSF/1 2.0, which is somehow contemporary to the hardware.
Last updated: 18-Sep-2010, M.Kraemer