The DEC Multia: The smallest, cheapest Alpha machine.

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  • @Maki_MSX
    @Maki_MSX 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi!
    @PA8600: Tech Videos and More!
    I've got one of those machines whthouth power supply, and I need the voltages provided by the original power supply. Will you, please, give me that information?

    • @pawsinmyface4560
      @pawsinmyface4560  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They're in the repair manual.
      archive.org/details/udb-man

    • @antoniocanocaballeroperez1808
      @antoniocanocaballeroperez1808 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pawsinmyface4560 Thank you very much! Now we can repair our dec multia computer :)

  • @UnlikelyToRemember
    @UnlikelyToRemember ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:24 EWA0 is your ethernet, PKA0 is your SCSI controller

  • @aaronlochard7360
    @aaronlochard7360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm just now coming across your video so this is a little late. I bought one of these in the 90s when they were on a fire sale. I can't remember what I paid but it was next to nothing. Part of your overheating problem is due to the orientation of the Multia. DEC shipped these with a stand to set it vertically. Documentation implied it was not optional. The airflow in that machine is designed for vertical orientation only.

  • @victorbart
    @victorbart 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just bought 2 Alpha multia's!! I had the Pentium 100 version back in 1999. Both of the alphas has 4 simms and ide drives installed. I think I gonna replace the fans with noctua's.
    Also I'm busy with my AlphaPC 164LX board. And I have an AlphaStation 333 but it doesn't post and it needs a battery mod and some work.

  • @JayJay-88
    @JayJay-88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very comprehensive video, thank you! I used to have a x86 Multia, not a very pleasurable experience either. I'll take my trusty SS20 over this any day. 😀
    I remember this ARC being used on PPC based platforms as well, back in the days I had a RS6000 which I would flash with ARC or the ordinary firmware depending on if I wanted to run NT or AIX. Also had a Motorola Powerstack which was a weird system and it had the ARC as well.

    • @pawsinmyface4560
      @pawsinmyface4560  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On the RS6ks (at least on my 40p) it loads from a floppy, the same goes with the Solaris 2.5.1 Open Firmware shim. Once you install it the bootloaders are installed to the hard disk. I need to make a video on the 40p but right now I'm having issues with freezing, issues that might be solvable with a new NIC that's not a random 3com pulled from a scrap bin. To add to this, I'm also having issues with battery leakage on that so hopefully that didn't cause any issues.

    • @JayJay-88
      @JayJay-88 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pawsinmyface4560 I would love a video on running Solaris 2.5.1 on PPC, talk about oddware!

  • @tess4647
    @tess4647 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember installing Red Hat for Alpha on one of these, back in the day. :D

  • @aaronlochard7360
    @aaronlochard7360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These machines did come with a bracket that allowed for an internal 3.5" SCSI hard drive. It fit behind the floppy drive, over top of the PCI slot and did not leave much room for any PCI cards. I equipped mine with a 2.1GB Seagate drive I pulled from an HP 715/80. I had installed NT4 on it as well as an early Windows 2000 beta build before MS axed the Alpha support. These were meant to be early thin clients and were not designed to be powerhouses. I used it for a short time just as a terminal emulator and connected to a Red Hat workstation over ethernet. I got my machine for free. I paid $30 shipping. m.slashdot.org/story/6620

  • @honse246
    @honse246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    risc architecture is gonna change everything

  • @NintenloupWolfFR
    @NintenloupWolfFR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You should really make videos on how to install and where to find the shit you need to install those old OS' on them, that'd be really cool to see too.

  • @leonhiem
    @leonhiem 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perhaps you could install a high-flow fan (from a 'pizza-box-server') besides the CPU. It is noisy, but will cool it better. Or maybe water-cooling...?
    In my XL-266 Alpha, the CPU has the same heatsink, but the airflow is guided with plastics to force the air to blow through the heatsink

  • @crxxpslvyr7887
    @crxxpslvyr7887 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, whats going to do whit the broken one? I thint that one has some psu isues...

  • @herdware
    @herdware ปีที่แล้ว

    I was not aware you could run VMS on these.

  • @Alphadec
    @Alphadec 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the best tech companies is not here anymore. Like cbm, digital, etc. Yeah mis managment yes have heard about that in tech biz.

  • @leonhiem
    @leonhiem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    DEC Alpha's are really really hard to find these days

  • @micahnightwolf
    @micahnightwolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My dad got me one of these when I was 6 years old, and it died when I was 6 years old because it had crap airflow and was kept in the garage.

  • @rotclanofficial7691
    @rotclanofficial7691 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The king of coding

  • @detaart
    @detaart ปีที่แล้ว

    "Aesthetic" is not a verb

  • @nasalimbu3078
    @nasalimbu3078 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weel on bus round and round all day long