DEC 3000/600S ("SANDPIPER+" )


 
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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME PIPER
SYSTEM CPU DEC ALPHA "EV4" 21064 @175 MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 2 MB, 8 KB / 8 KB
RAM  192 MB (Max. 512 MB)
SYSTEM BUS WIDTH 64 bit (256 bit memory bus)
SCSI BUS 2 x SCSI-2 (10 MB/s), two onboard NCR53CF94-2 chips, AKA "TCDS"
OPTION BUS 3 x TurboChannel slots @25 MHz
GRAPHICS 24-plane 1280x1024 @72Hz PMAGC-A
HARD DISK DRIVES 2 x DEC RZ26L 1 GB 5.4K RPM SCSI (internal)
3 x DEC RZ28 2 GB 5.4K RPM SCSI (external box)
NETWORK 10 Mbps RJ45 / AUI ethernet / ISDN onboard
100 Mbps FDDI (fiber) DEFTA-AA TC option card
OS DEC OSF/1 V3.2G
HP OpenVMS V8.3
YEAR 1994
SPEED 132 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS This machine will run older OSF/1 and OpenVMS smoothly.
PRICE '94 (basic server configuration, 160 MB RAM, 2 x 1 GB SCSI disks, no graphics, no options) $27,500

Bootlog Information


OSF boot - Tue Jul 25 19:42:07 EDT 1995

Alpha boot: available memory from 0x80e000 to 0xa000000
Digital UNIX V3.2G (Rev. 62); Sat Aug 11 07:42:04 EET DST 2007 
physical memory = 160.00 megabytes.
available memory = 151.94 megabytes.
using 606 buffers containing 4.73 megabytes of memory
tc0 at nexus
scc0 at tc0 slot 7
tcds0 at tc0 slot 6
scsi0 at tcds0 slot 0
rz1 at scsi0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 (DEC     RZ26L    (C) DEC 440C)
rz2 at scsi0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 (DEC     RZ26L    (C) DEC 440C)
rz4 at scsi0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 (DEC     RRD43   (C) DEC  1084)
scsi1 at tcds0 slot 1
rz8 at scsi1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 (DEC     RZ28D    (C) DEC 0010)
rz10 at scsi1 bus 1 target 2 lun 0 (DEC     RZ28     (C) DEC D41C)
bba0 at tc0 slot 7
ln0: DEC LANCE Module Name: PMAD-BA 
ln0 at tc0 slot 7
ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface, hardware address: 08-00-00-00-00-00 
fb0 at tc0 slot 0
 1280X1024
ln1: DEC LANCE Module Name: PMAD-AA 
ln1 at tc0 slot 1
ln1: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface, hardware address: 08-00-00-00-00-00 
fta0: DEC CRE DEFTA FDDI Module Name: PMAF-FS 
fta0 at tc0 slot 2
fta0: DEC CRE DEFTA (PDQ) FDDI Interface, Hardware address: 00-00-00-00-00-00
fta0: Firmware rev: 3.01
DEC3000 - M600 system
Firmware revision: 7.0
PALcode: OSF version 1.45
dli: configured
SuperLAT. Copyright 1993 Meridian Technology Corp. All rights reserved.

History and other comments

I got this machine in from Germany, in the spring of 2007. When I got it it was close to original condition, with only one exception; the small hatch door on the front panel was missing. This, of course, doesn't affect the functionality of the computer itself in any way, it's just a cosmetic flaw. The original DEC RZ26L SCSI disks are in place, I've only added the graphics card. In the picture below you can see the disks, CD-ROM and empty space reserved for TC option cards (the graphics adapter / TC options aren't yet installed):


Update in October 2007. I got some more RAM (upgraded from 160 MB to 192 MB) and also got the missing hatch door. This is how the system looks now, running with a BA353 SBB SCSI box on top:



The memory SIMMs are organised in a special way in a DEC 3000/600 as you can see below, one bank of SIMMs consist of eight proprietary SIMMs:



There are three TC option cards installed now, DEFTA-AA FDDI network adapter to the left, PMAD-A 10Mbps ethernet network adapter in the middle and then the PMAGB-BA TC graphics to the right.

Update in November 2007:  This computer now has a great looking truecolor framebuffer PMAGC-A installed. It's not as big as the PMAG-F but at least it occupies 2 TC slots:

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Last updated:  7-12-2007