[SunRescue] Good SPARCstation 10?

[Ken Hansen]

By buying into an SS10 you are getting some nice upgrade options, but unless you
have a well-stocked parts bin, you will have to spend some real money to get a
"good" system.

RAM for an SS10 is about $15/16 Meg SIMMs, $75-$100/64 Meg SIMMs -
you can put up to 128 Meg of RAM in an SS10 using "low-density" 16 Meg
SIMMs.

CPUs can get quite expensive as well - my SS10 is running 2x66 Mhz
HyperSPARCs that I got for about $25-30/each, but that was a rare deal.

And since you'll want video you will need to get a framebuffer, and that is a few
dollars (depends on model, a CG6 is a good compromise for $30-50 IIRC).

Low-end SS4/SS5 workstations can be very effective little web servers for
low-demand applications, and if you get one with the drive sleds you can
take advantage of low-cost SCA drives.

Look into the vendors on sunhelp.org, there are some special deals for various
SPARCstations that could be useful.

I really like my SS10, but I got most of it's pieces as cast-off parts from my
former employer.

HTH,

Ken
n2vip at bellatlantic.net

Paul Khoury wrote:

> I'm thinking of upgrading to a SS10 possibly, does anyone
> have any suggestions on where to get one as cheap as possible ($100-225)?
> I'd want something with at least 64MB of RAM, no HDs needed, no framebuffer,
> don't care about the floppy.
>
> Also, which CPUs would be the best for use as a webserver?  I don't need anything
> really fast, but being that I want to enter the foray of multiprocessor computing,
> I'd like to eventually have an SMP machine.
>
> Are SM41 or SM51's pretty good?  An SM30 seems a little too slow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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