[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #135 - 12 msgs

[Ken Hansen]

Convince your friend to quickly snatch one of the SS/5-170s at
supersellers.net - the price is great, the components are all sun
labeled/barcoded/firmwared/whatever, and it comes with a Cat5 cable and
Microphone II too!

Seriously, I can't find an upgrade to the SS/5-170 for less than that
machine:

    SS/5-170
    1x 4 Gig HD
    3x 32 Meg DIMMs
    TGX (mine was Surface Mount components, like you mentioned)
    The case looks *new*

And if he ever tires of it, he will have a *perfect* box for shipping it to
an eBay "winner."

Also, the RAM at Supersellers is quite cheap too - low-cost upgrade to the
*delightful* 256 Meg RAM is easily affordable...

Ken
----- Original Message -----
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> Message: 12
> From: James Fogg <jfogg at vicinity.com>
> Organization: Vicinity Corporation
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [geeks] SS/5-170 is a *nice* desktop...
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:27:35 -0400
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>
> I have roughly the same config on my SS5-170 (upgraded from a 70). I have
> 196M ram and 2X2 gig storage. I am much happy with it running 5.7 server.
I am
> about to install Sol8 desktop (added another 6 gig of external storage to
it for
> the purpose). I have several TGX boards. There were a couple of versions
of
> them. I don't know if any are faster, so I used the most recent one
(TGX-ll
> with modern ASIC and surface mount components). I run a local dtlogin X
session
> and 2 or 3 remote dtlogin X sessions and it hums right along. In fact, the
> remote dtlogins run faster than the local one (the remote machines are
> screaming fast dual cpu lots-o-ram VAlinux boxen). I have strongly
recommended
> the SS5/170 to a friend that wants to learn Solaris (he's Linux literate).