Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:21:50 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> To: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: PC164 Alpha motherboard offer closed Message-ID: <19990416212150.A9468@rek.tjls.com> In-Reply-To: <19990415021537.A2102@rek.tjls.com>; from Thor Lancelot Simon on Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:15:37AM -0400 References: <19990415021537.A2102@rek.tjls.com>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:15:37AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > I've arranged to make a bulk purchase of Digital AlphaPC164 motherboards, > with 500MHz processors. I can make these available to NetBSD users or > developers at a price somewhere between $175 and $200 each, plus shipping. > [...] > all orders -- so if you send me email by Friday with how many you want, I'll Okay, it's Friday evening, and I have to give the vendor a final quantity to get a price. I'm closing the offer -- any orders I haven't received yet, I won't allocate boards to. I'll send everyone email with a price and request for confirmation on Monday; if you ordered a board, but haven't received my next message by Tuesday night, you should contact me to follow up. A few people have requested that I call them, and I'll do that sometime Monday. As far as I know we're within 10% of the total number of boards the vendor can supply, so I *have* to close the offer but I believe everyone will get all the boards they wanted. I need to re-emphasize two points: 1) You need to *prepay*. When I receive your payment, I'll move your order from my "confirmed" list to my "can ship out" list. I reserve the right to not ship until checks clear, at my discretion. I'm looking at an X * $10K cash-flow problem without prepayment, so you can, I think, see my motive here -- I don't have that kind of pocket change! :-) 2) There is *NO WARRANTY* and *NO GUARANTEE*. I will possibly replace DOA boards, but I expect, based on vendor failure rates, possibly 1 or 2 of these in the whole order; even that would be a surprise. If I get too many "DOA" claims I'll have to conclude that boards are being blown up with static and stop replacing before I run out of stock to replace from! Take all proper ESD precautions! Also, there are a few questions I should answer: 1) Yes, heatsink and fan are included. 2) 36-bit "true parity" memory is required. I don't know if it's all got to be *exactly* the same, but all SIMMs must be of the same size. More news on 64MB modules: They can't be the enormous, 30-odd chip modules made of 4Mb parts, modules made of higher-density parts should work. 3) You can find the motherboard manual at: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/pc164trm.pdf (Thanks, Laine!) That's all, folks! Thor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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