[SunRescue] Good SPARCstation 10?

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

Have a look around ebay. At any given time there are dozens of sparc 10's 
and 20's for bid there. I recently bought a second SM41 on ebay for my 
personal Integrix sparc 20 clone. Just do a search on 'sun sparc'. Cost $63 
with shipping.

I've become hooked recently on keeping an eye on all the neat Sun hardware 
that flows through ebay. Obviously, caveat emptor, but ebay's 'feedback' 
system provides a near perfect means of verifying that a seller is on the 
up-and-up.

I'm hosting a handful of websites for friends on my personal server, all 
very low volume. However, the box is going to get a decent test shortly as 
a site that's under development may get some publicity when it's unveiled. 
I'll let you know how it holds up.

full specs: Integrix sparc 20 clone, 128M ram, two x 2G IBM DORS disks - 
mirrored with disksuite, two SM41's, Solaris 7, latest maintenance rev.

regards,
paul

At 03:03 AM 4/11/00, you 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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