Multia
Nick and Duncan continued in their quest to get me set up with a DEC Multia running Linux. The Multia is a famous machine which DEC produced as a desktop workstation with an Alpha CPU. They were amazingly cheap after a little while, frequently available for free. (But I, paraphrasing Jamie Zawinski, said that "Multias are only free if your time has no value".)
Multias look something like this:
(image from http://www.omroep.nl/nps/radio/supplement/99/0426/gfx/multia.jpg)
Oh, wait. That's a different kind of machine called a Multia. Actual DEC Multias are somewhat smaller...
The Multia is famous for having a 64-bit CPU on a workstation, which was relatively unusual when the Multia came out and is still unfamiliar to PC users. One of the cool things was the 64-bit time_t under Linux, so that GNU date could calculate the day of the week for an extremely long period of time into the future. (It's probably not right, because there will probably be a different number of leap days than the current formulas predict.)
