[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[William Staniewicz]

On 3/28/06, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:18:13 -0600 (CST)
> "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
> > SPARCs have slow consoles,
> Please elaborate. Currently I am watching ebay to get a Sun Blade 1000
> with 750 MHz US III. I wane use it as a general purpose desktiop
> machine. It will replace an Octane R12k 300 MHz with ESSI. I need
> somthing with a faster CPU and moderately accelerated 2D X11.
>
> > SGIs are loud and expensive and
> > power-hungry and tend to be IRIX-only,
> SGIs expensive? ???
> 300 MHz R12k SI / SE Octanes are down to 100 EUR and 500 / 600 MHz V10
> Fuels are below 500 EUR.

I will be parting with my Octane R12 some time soon.
Anyone "local"[0] to NL can send me an inquiry offlist
if you are interested in more info.

-Bill
[0] I don't plan on packing nor shipping it.