Re: Hardware question

> I'm eagerly awaiting the shipment of an Alphastation 500 machine (400 MHz
> CPU) and was wondering if someone could tell me what type of hard drive I
> should order for this machine?  It's original drive was removed by the IT
> reclamation company that took it out of service.

I suppose this will be an Alphastation 5/400 or 6/400, desktop case with
external greenish grey skins. These use narrow SCSI disks with an
NCR53C800 controller (siop(4) in OpenBSD).

> Also, does anyone know of an inexpensive source of RAM for this machine?
> I'd like to take it up to 1Gb if possible and not too costly.

I'm not sure these systems can accomodate more than 8x32MB ECC simms.
Maybe 8x64MB. Probably annoying enough to require the original DEC part
with gold-plated connectors, rather than average x36 FPM simms. I'm not
that sure about that, it's been years since I last used such a system.
I'm only using 21264-based systems those days (as well as a 164LX
system).