[geeks] OK some upgrade questions / refs.

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> Thanks to those who responded on my Workstation procurement effort over 
> on rescue (don't know if everyone who did respond also reads here).  I 
> may indeed need another soon for a friend of mine.  I found an Ultra 2 
> 300 Mhz with 256 MB RAM and 9GB drive Creator for $471 total with 
> shipping.  I'd like to know roughly how upgrade-able these are since the 
> new Sun hardware list on Sunhelp doesn't appear to exist yet.  I'm most 
> interested in max specs./cooling issues... and extra CPU's or faster 
> CPU's.

Amazingly upgradable.  Up to two 400MHZ/2M CPU's, 2G RAM, 2 drives, 4 SBUS
cards, plus the UPA slot for a graphics card.

It's on my top 5 list of sun systems ever made, and basenji.com runs on a
2x300 1G Ultra 2.

-Pete