Any of you niggas know what this thing is?
>>51271806
Looks like a HTPC to me.
International Dusiness Machines with DEC Alpha CPU. A rare find indeed.
Probably just a generic x86 PC. What's on the back?
>>51271806
It's some generic PC with a DEC Alpha CPU. They were somewhat popular in the 90's, but they were also kind of shit.
>>51271846
>HTPC
MODS MODS MODS
http://www.twice.com/news/audiovideo/idm-bringing-pc-theater-concept-retailers-shelves/39839
tl;dr HTPC w/ Celeron/Pentium III
>>51271806
likely an early HTPC
>>51271909
Alphas were workstation chips, not for everyday multimedia use.
>>51271909
You thought I was serious. Get a load of this moron.
>>51272134
kek
>>51271933
it's in the wrong order idiot
>>51271806
a dvd drive
>>51271806
It's a machine that autonomously generates Intelligent Dance Music.
Lazer disk
A Nintendo machine???
Alpha is a RISC CPU not to be confused with x86. They were much faster but also far more expensive and never caught on in the mainstream consumer market.
>>51271806
>What is this?
>I don't know, but it's big so let's charge $30 for it
>>51274539
It's not that they were more expensive, they just started late in the game. RISC needed it's on software compiled for it and no one had done it, meanwhile x86 had mounds of software for it so people stuck with what they knew.
>>51274633
good point, but I do believe a DEC alpha came with a higher sticker price. I'm too lazy to actually to the research though :p
>>51274617
It gets even better than that. I recognize that price tag style, it's the Goodwill branch in Phoenix. Company policy is to never sell computers due to the identity theft wave we had/have here, so whoever priced it is extra stupid
>>51274539
>>51274633
>>51274712
They were never made for the mainstream consumer market. They were made for high-end workstations and servers where they were practically peerless for number crunching.
>>51271806
Leave it alone, Tyrone. Its worth nothing to you.
>>51271806
Xbox one propotype?
>>51271806
Digital Entertainment Console
>>51276116
There where cheap low end alpha machines running WinNT like this DEC Multia.
>>51277260
Those were rare as all fuck and still very expensive, also geared at businesses.
Consumers were still buying 386s and low-end 486s around this time, an Alpha running NT was a terrible choice for someone who just wanted to run their old shitty DOS software and games
>>51277260
Except the NT port sucked ass.
>>51277323
Was there ever even any Alpha/MIPS/PPC native software worth a shit on NT?
I think even significant portions of NT itself was run through x86 emulation.
