[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

The Sun dual-Xeon stuff, the first generation, like the V65x I think? -- might still have some value for people that need to run older versions of Solaris, as there are drivers for everything from Sun.

These are the pre-Opteron systems like the V20z and V40z, I think?

Cheers

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 12:13:50 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [geeks] Old hardware cut-off

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>
> I have yet to look at my old Sun kit, is anyone interested in these bits? My
> head is spinning as I add up a decade plus of basement stuffing I did with
> this stuff - at my worst I picked up an entire van load of Sun HW, from
> SS5-U2, with a bunch of external HDs, CDs, and tape drives...
>

Very interested in a bunch of Sun gear.  I already have a bunch...but I 
still need more. ;)

> I have, for instance, just bumped into a new Sun dual Xeon x86 rack server
> (from the Dell PowerEdge 2650-era) that I did little more than boot up when I
> got it...

That'd be a neat little thing to have, too.  Wonder how they compare with 
the quality of their SPARC systems?

>
> I also have a couple quad core Sun systems (cycle quad and some other 'E450 in
> desktop box'system) that I just never got around to... (Not to mention an
> actual E450!)

Woooo. Quad-SPARC!  I only have one of those. ;)

>
> The distractions are mounting!
>
> For now I'm having some fun working on my 'cluster in a box' Dell 3 blade
> system... I've just about got it squared away with documenting the HW and
> configuring the OS...

That's a neat little machine.

>
> Lionel
>
>> On Feb 17, 2014, at 3:04 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>
>> Lionel, I have to say from here you have a lot of good problems :-)
>>
>> Keep up the good work, buddy!
>>
>> P.S. If it wasn't for the gigantic 1G of RAM (half my current desktop btw)
> I
>> would use it as a DOS development box or try to learn CP/M...
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