Journal m50d's Journal: Anyone got a spare alpha OS (or lives in the US)? 3
A few weeks ago I was amazingly lucky in acquiring an alphastation 600. Beautiful machine, and it's currently running gentoo very smoothly. However, it has a hulking graphics card (ZLXp-L) taking up two 64-bit pci slots which is currently acting as an 80x25 VGA card, because there is no open driver for the card. I either need to persuade a free os to use the xfree86 3.something version that digital supplies drivers for, or acquire a copy of openvms, tru64 or windows NT.
It looks like there's a way for people in the US to get a free copy of openvms. If you join encompass (http://www.encompassus.org/) as an associate member, you can get a hobbyist license (which is all I need). However, I'm living in the UK, so I don't have a valid US address with which to sign up for this.
So, is there anyone with a copy of an alpha OS they could give me? Or, would someone in the US be willing to get me a hobbyist copy of openvms by this method (if it works)?
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