[geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally

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Thanks! Sadly the Auction is in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. A little too
far from you I would think. I would offer to arrange transport, but
if these are as big and heavy as you say I would need to find a semi
to use. This also means it is too big for my meagre apartment, and my
hydro bills are too much as it is. 

I think a low bid might have a chance if my older brother does not
bid on them. Unfortunately this is unlikely as he is an avid
collector of sun hardware. I would enjoy any other advice and thank
everyone for their help.


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From: "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: [geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally


> While everyone else is jawing about semantics....
> 
> I highly recommend the SparcStation 5's and they are, IMHO, the
> best of the bunch at this auction. You will probably want more ram
> and disk though. The SS5 is modern enough that you won't have to go
> begging for parts, yet old enough to be worth very small dollars
> (maybe $30 to $90 depending on CPU, +$25 to +$50 more with
> monitor). They are SBus machines and use most of the SBus cards.
> They *can* be fast enough to run Solaris 8 (get lots of RAM and a
> TGX+ frame buffer). They come in models ranging from a 80mhz
> processor to a 170Mhz processor (my favorite). The 110Mhz is no
> slouch either. They use SCSI disks with SCA interfaces (not the
> more common 50 pin "IDE" type connector).
> 
> The 630MP is something I lust after, but it is a VME bus machine
> and parts are fairly hard to find, except on the Sunhelp lists. It
> isn't very fast, it isn't meant to be a workstation and is
> large/power hungry. It also has some Solaris version limitations (I
> don't know for sure, but I seem to recall that after Solaris 6 you
> run into problems). However, as a server they are still a nice
> machine to have, and if you judge computing power by the pound, its
> a killer. Again, they sell from zero dollars to maybe $500.00. Its
> not uncommon to find companies begging someone to haul them away
> for free, as they have almost no modern use and are expensive to
> send to the trash. One nice thing about this beast is that it is a
> multi-processor machine.  
> 
> The Cycle machines I am unfamiliar with. I seem to recall that they
> use a clone motherboard, maybe with a Ross CPU.
> 
> If this auction is within a 4 hour drive of Central New Hampshire I
> might be interested in having you bid on a 630MP for me. Let me
> know.
> 
> James Fogg, Network Engineer
> Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
> (603) 442-1751
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