is there a dec alpha man in the house?

[Mike Schwartz]

On 11/9/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I have a pair of older modem eb164 21164 dec alpha boards. both were
> working
> until today. both exhibit the same behavior:
> 1. blue screen on boot up with a single blinking cursor
> 2. no debug output on com port
> 3. no reaction from com port or connected keyboard
> 4. after a reset, video goes black
>
> HELP!
>
> if anyone even has the remotetest knowledge, I would like to talk with
> them
> PDQ! I have use for these machines (I was planning a complete port of the
> latest opensuse to alpha but thats on hold now).
>
> question, what could have caused the above condition(s)?
>
> someone please help. I am already at the limits of my knowledge and
> troubleshooting skills
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When  I saw thi post,  I thought of Brian Beattie
(there appear to be multiple persons with that name)
(but I am thinking of, the one:)
who worked with Brendan Eagan [and me] at Sperry Flight Systems
in the mid 1980s.
I did a search, and the guy who wrote this:
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/11/2/39
may not be the same guy, but he might be. (or they might know each
other...).
(you can of course search on your own, but)
some of the other hits included:
   http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8812.mm.www/0234.html
   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-10/1167.html
        the above is more recent, and really seems to "sound"...
        ...like, the way I remember him talking (/writing)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/maps/uucp.bak/u.usa.va.3
   http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/1015.html
        this one is even MORE recent...
I finally decided to follow that link to " www.beattie-home.net";  when I
got there,
there was a resume, and it now appears that, this is not the same person.
(but ,they might know each other...).
see also (a resume from 1992:)

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/misc.jobs.resumes/browse_thread/thread/48cd7be02de7e0ff/09fcce45ef24e8bd#09fcce45ef24e8bd
..maybe some of this will help.
   Another search, gave:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2B%22brendan+eagan%22+%2Balpha+%2Bvms+&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=groups&ct=title
...which also might help.  (If you can contact Brendan, he might still know
where [the other] Brian B. is.)
(or, he might know the answer!)
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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